Bruce Robinson Quotes

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Money can't buy poverty.

I wasn't exactly born with a silver spoon in my mouth.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

When I was a child, I didn't fly - we couldn't afford to fly. Flying was for rich people.

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

The goatherds were the poorest people of Spain. Probably, they were the richest.

I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger.

The poor generally follow behavior patterns established by the rich.

A poor man is a man who has not got much money. This may seem a simple and unnecessary description, but in the face of a great mass of modern fact and fiction, it seems very necessary indeed; most of our realists and sociologists talk about a poor man as if he were an octopus or an alligator.

There are but two families in the world … The haves and the have-nots.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

You are only as rich as where you come from, and Nigeria has a lot of poverty.

I identify with the bottom of the pyramid, because, outside of having money, I am at the bottom of the pyramid.

Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

A man with money to pay for a meal can talk about hunger without demeaning himself. ... But for a man with no money hunger is a disgrace.

I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.

The rich are different from us.

My people are poor and I am one of them.

HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.

When asked what was the proper time for supper: If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.

Mitt Romney said he's not concerned about the very poor. What he means is people making less than a million.

The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be few or many, that is an oligarchy, and where the poor rule, that is a democracy.

The clearest way to know whether you are with a poor person in America is not by the logo on the clothes, because we all wear pretty much the same anymore. It's by looking into their eyes and seeing whether they look into yours, and seeing what kind of teeth they have.