George Orwell Quotes

In societies that worship money and success, the losers become objects of scorn. Those who work the hardest for the least are called lazy. Those forced to live in substandard housing are thought to be the authors of substandard lives. Those who do not finish high school or cannot afford to go to college are considered deficient or inept.

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

It is a sin to be poor.

Nobody likes being around poor people, especially poor people.

I am not biased against the rich because they are rich, but the most lively people are those without money who would like to have some

They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor.

I'm not sticking up for white kids - I'm going to have a barrage of hate mail - but it's true. If you're poor, you're really poor.

It's very hard for someone who makes $1,000 a year or some who makes less than $1 a day to care about the environment.

From the fact of general well-being came the new position of the poor. They were now in most communities a minority. The voice of the people was now the voice of relative affluence. Politicians in pursuit of votes could be expected to have a diminishing concern for the very poor. Compassion would have to serve instead - an uncertain substitute.

Why do people care what I'm wearing or what I'm eating, and why are people looking down on me because I'm not wearing high heels? That's the downside to being in the public eye.

We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime

Look at the stupid, poor people. Look at the stupid, poor, burned-out people. Look at the stupid, poor, burned-out people, look at their dead baby. It's death porn for the masses.

It is easier to ask of the poor than of the rich.

We live in a world with serious class complexes. It is one thing to be a college student with loan debts and another thing to be just dirt poor for your entire life. The challenge is to come up with more complex understandings of where we are, more global awareness of what connects Americans with what is happening with suffering and oppressed people all around the world.

I understand that people might be poor if they don't have any work, but I don't accept that someone is poor if they've worked really hard.

People think because I'm shaped this way, I'm scandalous

A man with money to pay for a meal can talk about hunger without demeaning himself. ... But for a man with no money hunger is a disgrace.

The world is full of smart, poor people.

There are more differences between poor people than between middle-class people.

I believe poor people are good people, except the ones that are mean . . .

I'm from a middle class family but my father squandered all the money, so I didn't really run around with rich people. I was very judgmental towards a lot of them.

It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.

And he said that 47%-that's pretty high-47% of Americans are basically welfare bums who are mooching off the government. And then he said, 'My job is not to worry about those people.' You know, where do people get this stuff that Mitt Romney is a heartless, calculating c**ksucker?

Being Black and poor is, I think, radically different from being anything else and poor. Poor, to most Blacks, is a state of mind. Those who accept it are poor; those who struggle are middle class.

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