Noel Coward Quotes

A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.

You can make too much of inequality because there is always so much of it.

The absence of shared sacrifice in this country shames us.

Resentment — that feeling when the modern promise of equality collides with massive disparities of power, education, status and property ownership.

The world is not equal, unfortunately.

You need to think about the system that you live in and the comforts that you have. But the comforts that you have that are causing the discomforts of a massive amount of people around the world.

Unfortunately, the way the world is constructed, a lot of people have no chance, from day one.

He's earned a lifetime of peace and happiness, but some people never get what they deserve. That's why there are saints in gutters and sadists in palaces.

All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not.

The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or maybe only starving some of the time which isn't half so bad if it isn't you.

The only living socities are those which are animated by inequality and injustice.

I have a 10 year old at home, and she is always saying, 'That's not fair.' When she says that, I say, "Honey, you're cute; that's not fair. Your family is pretty well off; that's not fair. You were born in America; that's not fair. Honey, you had better pray to God that things don't start getting fair for you.

She couldn't imagine why there was such a difference between those children and her. She couldn't imagine why she and all these other people with her had to be treated this way. Who decided this, and what for?

In this country, people are concerned about their economic future. They're very concerned about it. And they wonder whether somebody is getting something to - keeping them from getting it. That's not the America that I've ever known.

There’s no way that Michael Jackson or whoever Jackson should have a million thousand droople billion dollars and then there’s people starving. There’s no way! There’s no way that these people should own planes and there people don’t have houses. Apartments. Shacks. Drawers. Pants! I know you’re rich. I know you got 40 billion dollars, but can you just keep it to one house? You only need ONE house. And if you only got two kids, can you just keep it to two rooms? I mean why have 52 rooms and you know there’s somebody with no room?! It just don’t make sense to me. It don’t.

Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.

The traveler feels at home everywhere, because she is never at home anywhere.

I had always loved life on the road. It was just something that appealed to me very deeply.

All imperfections are forced upon the imperfect, so the 'perfect' can live content and oblivious.

I don't believe that just because one person is born on one side of some imaginary line and another person is born on the other side means that a lot of people should be getting screwed through no fault of their own.

A poore mans Cow dies a rich mans child.

When I stepped into this world, I saw that we were all burdened by a certain kind of indifference to the plight of poor people. We were burdened by an insensitivity to a legacy of racial bias. We were tolerating unfairness and unreliability in a way that burdened me and provoked me.

People who travel are always fugitives.

To roam Giddily, and be everywhere but at home, Such freedom doth a banishment become.