Sudha Murty Quotes

Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture.

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

The rich don’t want the poor to get ahead of them.

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

I wonder what your idea of heaven would be — A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists. All powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death. And hell would probably an ugly vacuum full of poor polygamists unable to obtain booze or with chronic stomach disorders that they called secret sorrows.

I think that's always something when you're working class, when you're aware of things that you haven't had; there are moments when you question yourself, definitely.

People have suggested that perhaps we are too affluent to be telling this story, which is amazing to me because then I wonder what story I am allowed to tell. Having been working with the homeless for the past years, I noticed lots of things about them, but one thing I really noticed was that they were probably too busy just getting though the day to make a film about themselves.

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.

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.

Class still matters in Britain today.

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

When I was a child, I didn't fly - we couldn't afford to fly. Flying was for rich people.

The public thinks that homelessness is about not having any accommodation to go to.

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

I have never been a believer that nice clothes should only be for people with money.

Money can't buy poverty.

There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't.

There are people much less fortunate than us, and I don't mean people hungry sleeping in the streets either.

Ignorant people are apt to overrate the value of what is called education. The sons of the poor, having suffered the privations of poverty, think of wealth as the mother of joy.

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.

The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.

The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.