George Eliot Quotes

The amount of suffering I've seen is beyond belief. The amount of inequality is beyond belief.

I have come to believe that one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger are more bearable than injustice.

I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.

Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

I have this soft spot for have-nots. So, I was really inclined to portray their pain and pathos in 'Highway.'

To see those babies with no food for three of four days, old people sitting in the hot sun, when you see these poor people, you cannot help but being compassionate or affected.

God has always been hard on the poor.

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

Ignorance, filth, and poverty are the missionaries of crime.

… the unhappy Peasant cannot survive in his humble shelter; today pigswill is his only nourishment; what was once lavished on swine is now shared between man and beast. The People ask only for bread; they are even willing to pay for it with the sweat of their brows: at least let them eat it without watering it with tears.

People who are underprivileged have more to grieve and have more to overcome.

It's outrageous to line your pockets off the misery of the poor; It's outrageous, the crimes some human beings must endure.

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.

There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people.

I do not believe that the hungry man should be treated as subversive for expressing his suffering.

There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow and there has been enough of our elders who, having served their nation, are forced into indignity in their old age.

The Savior has suffered not just for our iniquities but also for the inequality, the unfairness, the pain, the anguish, and the emotional distresses that so frequently beset us.

The cry of the oppressed has entered not only into my ears, but into my soul, so that while I live, I cannot hold my peace.

I sleep in peace, even if only in the company of lice, behind bars. The same could not be said of my incarcerators though they sleep in warm beds, next to their wives, in their homes.

I had a very comfortable life, but there were people who spent their life in prison, whose families were destroyed.

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

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.

No one has ever suffered from his people as I have.