Chinese Proverb Quotes

Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched.

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful easily break through them.

We judge of entire nations by the productions of a few mechanical arts, and think we are talking of men, while we are boasting of their estates, their dress, and their palaces. The sense in which we apply the terms, great, and noble, high rank, and high life, show, that we have, on such occasions, transferred the idea of perfection from the character to the equipage; and that excellence itself is, in our esteem, a mere pageant, adorned at a great expense, by the labors of many workmen.

The possession of wealth does not confer upon the wealthy the right to take advantage of the less fortunate.

You know what should be banned? Stuff that's whack. The world is controversial. The world is classist. The world is racist.

I don't think people should be judged for their background.

You gotta speak for the have-nots. Everybody ain't rich.

You cannot write-off someone and consider them inferior in any way based on how much money they make.

We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one!

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.

We all deal with being unfairly judged.

I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.

Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.

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

There's never going to be a system that is fair to everyone.

Everyone knows that life isn't fair. Saying it's not fair suggests that you think life is supposed to be fair, which makes you look immature and naive.

How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!

Sometimes I think the playing field is certainly not even. You know, it's just not.

Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.

I have a lot of rage about things that didn't happen to me, tied up with watching an immigrant, working-class father struggle to make his way through the world - and seeing how society was modeled to keep him in his place.

Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.

Class isn't something you buy. Look at you. You have a $500 suit on and you're still a lowlife.

Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

Few people realize what a handicap it is to be what people call a beautiful woman. I'm glad, of course, that I don't look like an unmade bed, but too often, I'm just taken at face value. And there aren't many men who believe a beautiful woman can have any brains.

The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.