Charles Dickens Quotes

There are but two families in the world … The haves and the have-nots.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.

The poor generally follow behavior patterns established by the rich.

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

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones or inhabitants of different planets ... the rich and the poor.

The wall between rich and poor is a wall of glass which all can see.

The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

An imbalance between the rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

There are only two families in the whole world, my old grandmother used to say, The Haves and the Have-Nots.

This College system went into practice to draw a line of demarcation between the two classes of society—it separated the children of the rich from the children of the poor.

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, no worse, for a people than another.

There are no great lords who possess everything and a herd of people who have nothing

The lower middle classes as well as the peasants, … always side with the strongest

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.

You can have class in the ghetto and trash in the White House.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken stronger hold on the affections of men, and where the profounder contempt is expressed for the theory of the permanent equality of property.

The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.

We learned many years ago that the rich may have money, but the poor have time.