Anubhav Sinha Quotes

If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to.

All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.

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

The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are so seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them

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

One of the primary tests of the mood of a society at any given time is whether its comfortable people tend to identify, psychologically, with the power and achievements of the very successful or with the needs and sufferings of the underprivileged.

The class struggle … is a fight for the crude and material things without which no refined and spiritual things could exist. Nevertheless, it is not in the form of the spoils which fall to the victor that the latter make their presence felt in the class struggle. They manifest themselves in this struggle as courage, humor, cunning, and fortitude. They have retroactive force and will constantly call in question every victory, past and present, of the rulers

If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country.

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.

Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society.

As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.

I identify with the 99 per cent.

The thing about Occupy is that the sentiment the movement embodies is timeless: Don't be greedy, share.

For a free country to continue thriving, there have to be regular reforms, because any society, any economy that stays in place, you're going to see repeated attempts to exploit the openings for twisting policy to the advantage of those who already have wealth and power.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

'The Magician's Apprentice' was about someone from the low end of society manifesting magical power and how that completely messes up the balance of the whole system.

Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.

I'm interested in illuminating the enormous disparity between vast poverty and the tiny upper class... This vast inequity is unfair by definition, and I am interested in illuminating that and, where possible, changing that.

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.

Justice often means taking power from some who have it and giving it to some who do not.

Elites always tell poor people, “Work hard and play by the rules.”

Revolutions break out when opposite parties, the rich and the poor, are equally balanced, and there is little or nothing between 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.

We are undemocratic, then, in our religion, as is proved by our efforts to “raise” the poor.