Mary McCarthy Quotes

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

The want of education and moral training is the only real barrier that exists between the different classes of men.

I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.

We aspire to be equal opportunity, but all across the country where a student is born, their race, their class affect where they end up.

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.

In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.

I think America has dealt with - I mean, this is simplistic, and of course I don't live in America - but the impression I get is that there is not a kind of obligation to dislike those who are better off or be frightened of those who are worse off.

I think the class divide is going to change. I think a lot more working class people are going to get published. It is really class ridden, literature.

Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined by birth.

Let some people get rich first.

An imbalance between the rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

The rich don’t want the poor to get ahead of them.

The poor generally follow behavior patterns established by the rich.

There are but two families in the world … The haves and the have-nots.

The public education system works for children of families like mine but it does not work for the children of families who I represent …

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

In every country, and under every government, particular men may be too rich.

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

What is called sound economics is very often what mirrors the needs of the respectably affluent.

The fact is, working stiffs with few opportunities and scant education are generally too busy getting by to engage in revolutionary projects to remake society. And history, in fact, shows us that terrorism is generally a bourgeois endeavor.

I don't think that the rich should be attacked. There's nothing wrong in being rich.

Nobody likes being around poor people, especially poor people.

I grew up in Northern Ireland, in the middle of nowhere, and when you are poor, you are really poor. And when you are rich, you are very rich. This is not a new phenomenon.

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.

The rich are different from us.