Nicholas Kristof Quotes

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.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

For the good of Spain, I should like there to be rather fewer rich people and rather fewer poor.

The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot - too much, in retrospect - about the rich.

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

I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.

Why is it that if you take advantage of a corporate tax break you're a smart businessman, but if you take advantage of something so you don't go hungry, you're a moocher?

The rich don’t want the poor to get ahead of them.

Republicans look after the rich, and Democrats focus on the needs of the middle class. Neither of them looks after the poor.

Government has a responsibility to the have-nots.

The rich are few everywhere, the poor many.

The needs of the poor take priority over the desires of the rich

In a morally adjusted economy ... the rich should not get richer if the poor get poorer.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

The competition of the poor takes away from the reward of the rich.

The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.

I would say I'm a fiscal conservative and a social liberal, if that contradiction can make sense, because in Bolivia, we have a great problem, which is the inequity of income distribution. The rich aren't that rich, but the poor are very poor.

The rich stick together; the poor and the marginalised are thrown together.

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

I think greed is a critical problem - the gap between the poor and the rich. The gap between the top 10 percent and the bottom 10 percent.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

In a world of global dependencies with no corresponding global polity and few tools of global justice, the rich of the world are free to pursue their own interests while paying no attention to the rest.

There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.

We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.