Ruth Rendell Quotes

I often think what it was like not to have much money. I don't think it's good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it.

I feel like money is an interesting thing when you don't come from it.

I'm tired of people on trust funds telling people on food stamps how to live.

When I was a young fellow I was very much disturbed by there being some people with lots of money and lots of people with no money.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women.

Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy.

When I was a child, I didn't fly - we couldn't afford to fly. Flying was for rich people.

Money can't buy poverty.

There was a time in my life when I was going in and out of houses that were extraordinarily different - from a working-class terrace in Northampton to the homes of friends who were really very wealthy. It was quite an odd position to be in, I realise looking back, and quite a nice one.

I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

There’s just too much money in the hands of too few.

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

I could never understand why our lives felt like a struggle while those living off government largesse enjoyed trinkets that I only dreamed about.

If you don't have money or you come from a background that doesn't have money, it's harder to achieve your ambition in life. It's not that you can't, but it becomes harder. Inequality is one of the worst things that can exist in our society, so I am interested in those kind of things.

Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien; people there had a lot of money.

The thing that really struck me when I went to junior high was class. I grew up on a pretty poor street, but the school district I was in included some fine neighborhoods - so I got to know a couple of the kids from those places and went to their houses and experienced such culture shock.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

'Get a Job' is about all the rich kids we knew when we were younger, kids who never had jobs but always had money for partying or getting their hair done.

There's a wealth gap that is happening, and that is all over the world, you know? The rich are getting richer and holding a higher percentage of money or wealth that's out there.

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.