Oscar Wilde Quotes

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

I'm tired of people on trust funds telling people on food stamps how to live.

He whose belly is full believes not him whose is empty.

I don't have money. Monsanto has money.

Money can't buy poverty.

I have stopped at farm after farm where lean, underfed women and sickly men repeated again and again the same story—little food and no opportunity to get more.

Society is composed of two great classes-those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

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.

How fared the Irish artisan—how fared the Irish peasant? Where one pined, as he yet pines, in your beggared cities, the other starves, upon your fruitful soil.

It is rather a shame for a rich country like ours ... that it should allow those who have toiled all their days to end in penury and possible starvation.

After all we have done to provide the needy with food, the landlords appropriate the people’s corn and use the employment of the poor to improve their properties at public expense.

What would you think of me if I were capable of seating myself at a table and gorging myself with food and saw about me the children of my fellow beings starving to death?

It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat shit and die.

The rich rob the poor, and the poor rob one another.

People starve. The rulers consume too much with their taxes. That is why people starve.

When you're poor, you know nothing about the future, you know nothing about the world, nothing that goes on outside 300 yards around you.

I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that puts them at an advantage over the poor.

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice.

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

We are the nation the most powerful, the most armed and we are supplying arms and money to the rest of the world where we are not ourselves fighting. We are eating while there is famine in the world.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be comfortable and well fed while all around you people are starving.

Understandably, no peace can sustained when people continue to suffer from hunger, lack of jobs, lack of basic public services - and most of all - lack of opportunity or hope.

The American dream is dead for the majority of America.