Charles Barkley Quotes

Elites always tell poor people, “Work hard and play by the rules.”

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

The world belongs to the wealthy, and nowhere is this injustice more apparent than in the workplace.

It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed.

Our greatest political disease -- the disease of thinking that the community is divided into the relatively rich and the relatively idle, and the laborious poor, and that every social and political controversy can be resolved into the question: What side are you on?

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

The central issue of our time remains the fact that the rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer.

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

I'm tired of people on trust funds telling people on food stamps how to live.

If work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.

This contempt for money is a trick developed by the rich to keep the poor without it.

The competition of the poor takes away from the reward of the rich.

If the upper classes, through their political representatives, pass legislation that diminishes the income of the middle class and reduces services to the poor and further enrich the affluent, this is not class warfare. But if the middle class and the poor, and their representatives, complain that this is unfair, that is class warfare. So say some of our politicians who oppose class warfare.

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

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.

The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.

As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to downgrade their own status.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

I feel sometimes that there's this sense that people are poor because they want to be, or they're working-class because they want to be or because they don't work hard enough. I feel like there's this demonization of working people in general, but specifically definitely labor union members.

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

In Russia, or anywhere, people don't like rich people. Yeah, OK, I have money, but the question is how I use it. It's not easy, believe me; it's not easy.

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

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.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

We love wealth, and we hate poor people. I know people who work in TV news who have actually been told to do stand-ups rather than put interviews with poor people on the air. We physically don't want to look at them.