Joseph Lancaster Quotes

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

The poor should not have to learn how to be frugal and the rich should not have to learn to be extravagant.

We have a myth of the classless society. You won't hear an American politician apart from Bernie Sanders talk about the working class. We are all middle class, apparently.

Working-class people don't tend to be wooed by celebrity.

Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.

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

Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined by birth.

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.

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

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy 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.

You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.

The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.

It isn't the rich people's fault that poor people are poor. Poor people who get an education and work hard in this country will stop being poor. That should be the goal for all poor people everywhere.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

This College system went into practice to draw a line of demarcation between the two classes of society—it separated the children of the rich from the children of the poor.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

The ignorance of the working class and the superior intelligence of the privileged class are superstitions fostered by ... universities and churches, and by all the centers of privilege.

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

I don't think that the rich should be attacked. There's nothing wrong in being rich.

It's not in our nature. Americans have never been a people that drive through a nice neighborhood and say, 'Oh, I hate the people who live in these nice houses.'

I'm not going to do class warfare; I want to be wealthy.

Growing up in Middlesbrough I was taught to be resilient and competitive. My teachers made us believe that just because kids were at private school up the road, it didn't mean they were better than us.

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.

Feed the poor and get rich or feed the rich and get poor.