Aravind Adiga Quotes

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

Poor men's words have little weight.

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

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.

I've always stood on one fact - that all over the world, there are only two things, the Establishment and the poor people. The poor people are a massive majority and across the world they are exploited in different kinds of ways. The Establishment depends on exploiting raw materials and the poor.

If we were in India now, there would be servants standing in the corners of this room and I wouldn't notice them. That is what my society is like, that is what the divide is like.

What the poor did to the poor was the business of the poor, not the business of the proper people who ran the city.

The "have nots" outnumber the "haves." No wonder the ruling class of every country grows more and more alarmed.

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

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing.

The poor developed an envy and an extreme jealousy, born of the realization that they are as worthy, or even more worthy than the wealthy, and are nonetheless afflicted with poverty, hunger, misery, and contempt.

I was also pained to notice an institution which I certainly did not expect to find in this country – I mean caste. Your rich people are really Brahmins, and your poor people are Sudras.

Ordinary people understand that the rich and powerful bully the poor and meek.

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.

Class still matters in Britain today.

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

The messenger matters. When people of modest means complain about inequality, it usually gets written off as class warfare, but when billionaires complain, the problem is redefined.

Social inequality … divides society into two classes -- the wage-slaves and the grabbers of capital

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

Is the great working class oppressed? Yes, undoubtedly it is. God has intended the great to be great and the little to be little.

The defeats and victories for the people at the top aren't defeats and victories for the people at the bottom.

Society is composed of two great classes-those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.