Nell Carter Quotes

Class isn't something you buy. Look at you. You have a $500 suit on and you're still a lowlife.

To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth ought not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration.

When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

You know, I always say white is not a colour, white is an attitude, and if you haven't got trillions of dollars in the bank that you don't need, you can't be white.

If everybody lives in the same way, there's something almost narcotizing about it, but the true misery of economic class difference is knowing that you can't have what somebody else does.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.

People say law but they mean wealth.

Water does tend to flow up hill toward money and power.

Choose equality …. Inequality has the natural and necessary effect … of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class.

one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing.

Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.

In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave.

We have a new class in this country: the deserving rich. ... The deserving rich do nice things for each other. Comforting the unafflicted is something that comes naturally to them.

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

We're leaving the House to people who either were born with a silver spoon in their mouth... or couldn't get better jobs in the first place.

It's horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if you're not famous or rich, you're not acceptable.

Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person.

People don't want to have to justify their privileges; they don't want to have to justify having access to the power and resource that wealth brings. And by not talking about it, they are able to hold onto their power without being questioned, and I think that makes them feel more secure.

Status in itself is criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people.

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

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.