Thomas Malthus Quotes

Complaint is poverty.

I just hated poverty.

It's hard to get people to empathize with the poor. You can get some people to sympathize with the poor, but to empathize is actually very hard, because most people are not poor. I realized that scarcity gives you a thread.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

I don't want to see that two-tier Senegal, that two-tier Africa, when you have those at the top and those at the bottom, people who are hungry, people who do not have enough to eat.

A recession is predominantly for the middle class. Where I come from, the majority of people have always lived in a recession.

A shining city is perhaps all the President [Ronald Reagan] sees from the portico of the White House and the veranda of his ranch, where everyone seems to be doing well. But there's another part to the shining city. In this part of the shining city there are more poor than ever, more families in trouble, and more people who need help and can't find it.

Never forget that there are rich people in poor countries and poor people in rich countries.

The planet is not yet safe. It suffers from the kind of greed that ignores not only global warming but an even more immediate bomb ready to detonate—the terrible gap on the globe between the rich and the poor, the technologically proficient and the majority left behind, the overfed and the starving, and the arrogance of our only superpower, my country, that sees only as far as the next election or tomorrow's Dow Jones Industrial Index.

Hunger, the inseparable companion of the poor, is the offspring of the unequal distribution of the wealth and the injustices in this world. The rich do not know hunger.

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

There is not enough wealth in the cities to redistribute it from those who are wealthy to those who are poor.

What we're saying is that if you are poor, you can die.

One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.

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

I’m really not concerned about the very poor. They have a safety net.

Problems of persistent poverty cannot be addressed unless they are acknowledged.

No society is healthy when the gap between the rich and the poor is growing.

There’s been an economic war going on in this country and the middle class and the poor have been losing..

The state grew fat, but the people grew lean.

The poor are little folks living on little lands who want what we already have.

I often think that people who write a lot about poverty need to go and spend more time with poor people.

There's more poor people in this country than there are rich, and I stick up for the poor people.

Nobody talks about the poor. Everybody talks about the middle class and just kinda want to ignore that the poor exist. And you cannot ignore that they exist if you want to help them.

Everyone's seen poverty - well, most have.