Rutger Bregman Quotes

I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.

I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger.

I've worked with and talked to poor people my entire life, being in the pawn shop business.

Anybody who lives in Colombia knows that if you don't have any money - I tell you what - you don't have many options.

Worrying about bills, food, or other problems leaves less capacity to think ahead or to exert self-discipline. So, poverty imposes a mental tax.

We didn't have a TV because we didn't have a whole lot of money. My parents would have their friends over - their friends who thought, 'How can you live without a TV?'

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.

Giving a poor person money keeps them poor.

We had to make ends meet. My parents were divorced, so my father wasn't really in my life. We grew up like most kids, just wanting things.

I toured a lot in the U.K. and Europe solo for a lack of funds, really. I left people I'd been playing with for years at home, just because I couldn't afford it.

You know you poor when you eatin' breakfast food late. You fryin' toast? At nine o'clock at night? With bacon? You're broke.

I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.

I wasn't rich.

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.

Now we've got lots of freedom and no money.

Wealth is far away. Poverty is near.

All being poor, the only food they use is the cheapest jn the country—potatoes.

I come from a family that doesn't have a whole lot of money.

I grew up in a very large, poor family.

My parents got married when they were 16, and they never had any money.

I'm a poor person who has money.

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

We don't make enough in our job to live the way that we would want to and to have the support that we would need. Most of our income doesn't even come from our salary from our employer and we have to find income from other places.

I didn't grow up in the slums or anything that dire, but I know what it is to grow up without having money or being able to support family.