E. M. Forster Quotes

The rich stick together; the poor and the marginalised are thrown together.

There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.

I'm not from the working class. I'm from the criminal class.

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.

The ‘poor white’ is actually degraded; the mountain white is a person not yet graded up.

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

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

In middle-income countries, inequality becomes a problem because you can see there is a layer of people who are doing well, while the poor are still stuck there.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

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

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

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.

We are undemocratic, then, in our religion, as is proved by our efforts to “raise” the poor.

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

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

I come from the poor people, and I have been here working my whole stinkin' career for people who don't have a chance, and I really resent anybody that says I'm doing it for the rich. Give me a break.

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.

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

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

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.

Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States.

The American dream is dead for the majority of America.

I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against the poor. I grew up on welfare and often had to move in the middle of the night because we couldn't pay the rent.

Very few people can afford to be poor.