Muhammad Iqbal Quotes

… in the old days there were one thousand castes and destinies in India. These days, there are just two castes: Men with Big Bellies and Men with Small Bellies. And only two destinies: eat – or get eaten up

There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.

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

I would not say that George Bush doesn't care about people at all. I think that his loyalties are to the upper class.

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

If you are a representative, and poor people don’t vote, you’re not going to pay particular attention to the needs of the poor.

Subordinate classes have usually pushed for democracy, dominant classes nearly always have resisted it.

In politics heaven lies at the feet of the poor masses.

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

Who takes the blame: the leader who talks of poverty but lives in luxury, or the poor who choose a leader of that type?

Poor men's words have little weight.

All the households of the poor are not equally submissive

I think that there always have been and always will be at least two Americas - the poor America, the second America, tends to be in the shadows. Sometimes it's an America of people in a ghetto of color, sometimes it's an economic ghetto, but definitely there is a parallel America which people in the dominant America prefer to ignore if they can.

The rich stick together; the poor and the marginalised are thrown together.

In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.

I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.

Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing.

In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.

If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to.

Too many people, because they were white and poor, black and rich, or just plain busy with something other than politics, have felt they had no voice in our government.

What I quickly discovered is that our so-called new South Africa has as much material for a story-teller as the old one. The landscape hasn't really changed. Who is in power now is different to who was in power then, but the squatter camps grow like cancer, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer.

The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.

Status in itself is criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people.

Today in India there are all sections of people, as the BJP realized when the poor voted them out.

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