Charles Fillmore Quotes

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

A poor man is a man who has not got much money. This may seem a simple and unnecessary description, but in the face of a great mass of modern fact and fiction, it seems very necessary indeed; most of our realists and sociologists talk about a poor man as if he were an octopus or an alligator.

Poverty was a relationship, I thought, involving poor and rich people alike.

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

My parents worked their tails off, but we weren't the poorest people in town. Some people I went to school with, you could tell they were dirt poor.

Money can't buy poverty.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

It is easy to say that poverty is no crime .... It is a blunder though, and is punished ... A poor man is despised the whole world over.

I was one of the poorest people in America.

There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

You and I can be busy, and we take a vacation from work. You can't take a break from being poor. You can't say, 'Hey I've had enough of worrying about money, I'm just going to be rich for a couple of weeks until I've recovered.'

Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing. It's not politically viable; it's not morally right; it's just not going to happen.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Poverty affects people of all races.

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.

You know, when you're poor and you have a bunch of kids in your family, you don't know that everybody's not poor.

If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery.

I don't want there to be this separation between the rich and poor. I may be part of the three percent because I've been fortunate and done well for myself, but I will never forget about the 97 percent. That was me growing up. I was so poor I dreamt about being just 'regular poor,' not 'poor, poor.'

That system, unequal as it is indefensible, is the mightiest engine of oppression imposed upon an honest yeomanry since the feudal ages. This system places a high premium on wealth and a severe penalty on poverty.

... popular art has no chance of a healthy life, or, indeed, of a life at all, till we are on the way to fill up this terrible gulf between riches and poverty.

The burning issue of our time is the growing inequality in income and wealth in our country.

No matter how we name and dissect inequality, we must keep explaining the larger downside of such concentrated extreme wealth.