A. J. Liebling Quotes

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

Nobody likes being around poor people, especially 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.

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

Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population.

Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty.

The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.

The biggest problem is that the rich people paying the bills do not share the same goals as the poor people they are trying to help. The wealthy have weak incentives to get the right amount of the right thing to those who need it; the poor are in no position to complain if they don’t.

The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

I don't know, it may be that poor people are the only ones who commit crimes, but I do know that they are the only ones who serve prison sentences.

The poor will never cease out of the land.

There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

It is easy to say that poverty is no crime .... It is a blunder though, and is punished ... A poor man is despised the whole world over.

… the submerged tenth

Poverty is an artificial imposition on a human being.

The great mass of the poor in countries are become an hereditary race, and it is next to impossible them to get out of that state of themselves

Poverty is a corrosive brew, capable of eating away at the underpinnings of democratic life itself.

In Canada, we just have rich and poor, but we don't constantly remind poor people about it.

The biggest problem in America is most people believe poor people are poor because they are lazy.

India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.

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.

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.

The second truism that we must understand is that poverty does not create our social problems, our social problems create our poverty.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.