Shirley Manson Quotes

If everybody lives in the same way, there's something almost narcotizing about it, but the true misery of economic class difference is knowing that you can't have what somebody else does.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

I think having a good life prompts it... anybody who has a good life and looks around them sees the enormous disparity that exists in the world between those people who do and those that don't. I can't say we walk about our guilt a lot, though. If we do, it probably comes out in the form of self-loathing jokes. But it's a tough thing to wrap your head around... the have's and have not's in the world.

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

That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside the door is extreme poverty.

Those of us who have been economically successful cannot forget those who have not.

The privileged classes today are bothered about petrol and diesel prices while the poor can't afford two meals a day. I am a very small person, but I want us to think beyond personal and regional interests.

I can't look in the mirror and see people dying on the street that should have the same opportunities that I've had. And say 'You know what? I can live with myself.' Because I can't if I just watch.

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.

Without an advocate for the poor, without a new state of mind in America, the country lies on the brink of anarchy.

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

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

I've actually apologized to some people I was a real jerk to, because I feel ashamed. I didn't need to be that hungry. There was something going on inside me when I was angry and feeling very threatened and not feeling good about myself.

I'm ashamed to say that I'm from a very privileged background.

Money can't buy poverty.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.

I used to be so angry about the kids that had stuff. Like the kids that had cars, the kids that had money to go get lunch every day off campus. I used to feel so slighted.

The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy.

Even if I have a good day, I still am aware of other people that are going through really hard, tumultuous things. I don't want to be the person who has a platform and neglects the things I see in my life and experiences.

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

Inequality is on the rise.

People with lower incomes tend to give a greater percentage of their incomes to help others and show greater empathy and compassion - perhaps because they know they might face the same circumstances.