Oscar Arias Quotes

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.

The poor will never cease out of the land.

… perceptions of poverty have gone up because there’s been rising inequality.

No matter how we name and dissect inequality, we must keep explaining the larger downside of such concentrated extreme wealth.

I left college with a deep sense that I needed to understand poverty more.

Poverty was a relationship, I thought, involving poor and rich people alike.

Nobody talks about the poor. Everybody talks about the middle class and just kinda want to ignore that the poor exist. And you cannot ignore that they exist if you want to help them.

India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross.

Greater inequality in Europe has made people less happy.

It's no sin to make a critical study of Brazil's reality. A small percentage own land. Most people don't.

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

You know, Saudi Arabia has a lot of poverty also. Regardless about what you hear about the viceroy and people being rich, et cetera.

The goatherds were the poorest people of Spain. Probably, they were the richest.

The poverty one still sees in America today is more shocking to me than anything I have seen in Ethiopia or Calcutta or Manila, and has made me, as someone living in a society of great wealth and someone who's never had to worry about the next meal, think seriously about what universal responsibility really means.

And if you look at the reality in the United States, where you have more than 40 million people below the poverty line and 42 million on food stamps, and then you look at poverty around the world, clearly the way we're running the engine of capitalism is not serving us well.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

I was a camp counselor for kids whose moms were on welfare, unfortunately, and right across the camp was the best, most pristine and preppy camp in the universe.

The issue of wealth inequality is ... the great moral issue of our time.

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

There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

The association of poverty with progress is the enigma of our times.

Poverty abides no line drawn by color or culture.