Edmund Burke Quotes

People see poverty all around them in India, but they are desensitized or immune to it. I came to the conclusion that poverty is driven by lack of education.

There's always been a nasty strain of class prejudice ingrained in the condemnation of football's 'undeserving rich,' as if the working class is uniquely susceptible to being corrupted by money, and as if they deserve their wealth less than those born to it.

There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.

I make films about working class people.

I could actually care less about the poor. We have some living near us, and pee-yew. They are always coming and going to their three or four jobs at all hours of the day and night. Annoying!

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.

The one think I hate about rich people, is that they really think that they work harder than poor people.

I come from the lower middle class, originally. We didn't have anything.

I come from a working class family. We barely had anything.

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

I didn't necessarily grow up in a trailer park, but there is a brief part of that in my life. So I can make fun of it a little bit. I'm not too much of an outsider, where I'm just making fun of someone.

My sympathies have always been for working-class people.

If you have extremes of haves and have-nots where the gap keeps growing, the have-nots group together and create social disorder, as they can't see a way out of their situation.

Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.

And understand: class differences will not save you.

Income inequality is troubling because, among other things, it means that many people in our society don't have the opportunities to advance themselves.

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

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

The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it I've met, and think they're incredibly witty, inventive - there's a lot of poetry there.

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

My parents worked their tails off, but we weren't the poorest people in town. Some people I went to school with, you could tell they were dirt poor.

The working class of England take their deracination completely for granted. Disenchantment is the happy code that informs every byway of the underclass: service jobs, celebrity dreams, Lotto wins, leisured poverty on pre-crunch credit cards, it's all there, part of the story of an English people whose grandparents never had it so good.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

Candidates don't want to be associated with poor people, people who have jobs or are ugly; they want to be associated with a certain middle class demographic, so as a result they leave those others out completely.

I'm working class, my family was working class, and we have struggled the same way our neighbors here in San Francisco have struggled.