Gaius Fabricius Luscinus Quotes

What I quickly discovered is that our so-called new South Africa has as much material for a story-teller as the old one. The landscape hasn't really changed. Who is in power now is different to who was in power then, but the squatter camps grow like cancer, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer.

It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.

Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.

In a well-governed nation poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a badly governed country wealth is something to be ashamed of.

People say law but they mean wealth.

You [a country] cannot be rich, successful and powerful and still be loved, particularly be those who have little success, wealth or power.

You can’t be rich, strong, and loved, particularly by those who are not rich or strong.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

The chief agent responsible for promoting the passions at the expense of justice turns out to be wealth.

Wealth is a form of power in our society. With great power comes great responsibility. If you have too much wealth, ipso facto, you have too much power -- therefore you have too much responsibility -- and you're a kind of dictator.

Tradition has it that whenever a group of people has tasted the lovely fruits of wealth, security, and prestige, it begins to find it more comfortable to believe in the obvious lie and accept that it alone is entitled to privilege.

Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches.

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.

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.

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.

There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.

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

People don't want to have to justify their privileges; they don't want to have to justify having access to the power and resource that wealth brings. And by not talking about it, they are able to hold onto their power without being questioned, and I think that makes them feel more secure.

The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

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

Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.