Om Puri Quotes

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

Inherently, I have a social conscience which my late father inculcated in me. He was not exactly a very wealthy man, but he was very concerned about the underprivileged, about the people who didn't have equal opportunities.

If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.

Homeless people really upset me when I was little. A lot of kids have this reaction, but I would get really worried or sad or concerned or cry.

Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.

I have this soft spot for have-nots. So, I was really inclined to portray their pain and pathos in 'Highway.'

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

Your poverty is my shame.

I will always be on the side of those who have nothing.

I want to be there for all those who are left behind in this world, whether it's because they are born poor, born a woman, or born in an area affected by devastation.

One big mistake of many politicians is to have no understanding for the real situation of people in their country.

There is no excuse for inaction in the face of economic injustice.

If you feel more emotion looking at a picture of queuing lorries than a picture of desperate humans living in a lay-by, you need to check your bedtime routine for someone beating you round the head with a meat tenderiser.

In India, people tend to get categorised by their job or caste or colour. But in Kamathipura, despite their horrid living, it was truly eye-opening how kind and sensitive these women are.

It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

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

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

We live increasingly in a world of haves and have-nots, of gated communities next to ghettos, of extreme poverty and unbelievable riches. Some enjoy rights that are completely denied to others. Relative inequalities are exploding, and the world's poorest, despite all the advances of globalisation, may even be getting poorer.

I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.

You, I, we all encounter behaviors that we might say, I wouldn't do that. But she has a huge amount of contact with how people live. She sees more hospices and sink estates than most people.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.

You grow up in America and you're told from day one, 'This is the land of opportunity.' That everybody has an equal chance to make it in this country. And then you look at places like Harlem, and you say, 'That is absolutely a lie.'

If you are moneyed or educated, you will get a different sentence than someone who is not.