Thomas Fuller Quotes

One half of the world knows not how the other half lives.

…nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want.

It's hard to get people to empathize with the poor. You can get some people to sympathize with the poor, but to empathize is actually very hard, because most people are not poor. I realized that scarcity gives you a thread.

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

Society is composed of two great classes-those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat shit and die.

Full stomachs don't believe empty ones.

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

Hunger, the inseparable companion of the poor, is the offspring of the unequal distribution of the wealth and the injustices in this world. The rich do not know hunger.

What would you think of me if I were capable of seating myself at a table and gorging myself with food and saw about me the children of my fellow beings starving to death?

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.

Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.

The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.

Half the world does not know how the other half lives.

Inequality is on the rise.

Verdiana was the child of poor though well-born parents, and her knowledge of the sufferings of the poor from her own experience in early years made her ever full of pity for those in need.

I have stopped at farm after farm where lean, underfed women and sickly men repeated again and again the same story—little food and no opportunity to get more.

The biggest problem is that the rich people paying the bills do not share the same goals as the poor people they are trying to help. The wealthy have weak incentives to get the right amount of the right thing to those who need it; the poor are in no position to complain if they don’t.

You don't have to be impoverished to understand poverty.

After all we have done to provide the needy with food, the landlords appropriate the people’s corn and use the employment of the poor to improve their properties at public expense.

Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat.

Liberty is impossible if 36 thousand families at the top of the economic pyramid get as much income as 12 million families at the bottom.

I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that puts them at an advantage over the poor.