Thiruvalluvar Quotes

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

In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.

No one can say how long the process of human extinction might take, but as it proceeds, the same global order will prevail that always prevails: rich nations will find ways to protect themselves and make themselves comfortable, while the poor nations and the poor people of the planet will suffer.

It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.

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

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.

I don't think they [Congress] ought to balance their budget on the backs of the poor.

The poor will never cease out of the land.

... popular art has no chance of a healthy life, or, indeed, of a life at all, till we are on the way to fill up this terrible gulf between riches and poverty.

The war on poverty had not been undertaken at the request of the poor.

New York Times, despite its liberal reputation, has been against the poor people of this earth.

Poor people do not cause poverty. Poverty is thrust upon them.

Poor people sometimes feel that they have no other recourse than to destroy the property of those who have it.

Staggering poverty and crippling inequality at hole do not necessarily prevent countries from trying to project their power abroad.

Inequality of income is bad for everyone, not just the poor and the middle class.

Poor people don’t make campaign contributions.

… the struggling masses

Well, as you know, there are many things in life that are not fair, that wealthy people can afford and poor people can’t. But I don’t believe that the federal government should take action to try to make these opportunities exactly equal, when there is a moral factor involved.

Most poor people live in the poorest countries.

Historically, industrial revolutions haven't been kind to poor people. Despite the potential benefits technology can offer, the immediate impact on the lowest-paid members of society has often been negative.

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.

Economic inequality is a corrosive force that undermines economic growth, puts a brake on the fight against poverty, and sparks social unrest.

I think, unfortunately, we've always lived in a world of massive inequality: inequality between the haves and the have-nots, inequality between men and women that not only exists temporally but geographically as well.

The obscenities of this country are not girls like you. It is the poverty which is obscene, and the criminal irresponsibility of the leaders who make this poverty a deadening reality. The obscenities in this country are the places of the rich, the new hotels made at the expense of the people, the hospitals where the poor die when they get sick because they don't have the money either for medicines or services. It is only in this light that the real definition of obscenity should be made.

A nation with their freezers full are dancing in their seats, while outside another nation is sleeping in the streets.