Charles Murray Quotes

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

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.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Poverty affects people of all races.

People who are rich find it hard to understand the behavior of poor people. Economists are no exception, for they, too, find it difficult to comprehend the preferences and scarcity constraints that determine the choices that poor people make.

You can't define what's middle class, what is wealthy, what is poor.

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

Nobody likes being around poor people, especially poor people.

It is easy to say that there are the rich and the poor, and so something should be done. But in history, there are always the rich and the poor. If the poor were not as poor, we would still call them the poor. I mean, whoever has less can be called the poor. You will always have the 10% that have less and the 10% that have the most.

My people are poor and I am one of them.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

It is a sin to be poor.

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

My parents worked their tails off, but we weren't the poorest people in town. Some people I went to school with, you could tell they were dirt poor.

Money can't buy poverty.

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.

Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education.

The one class you do not belong to and are not proud of at all is the lower-middle class. No one ever describes himself as belonging to the lower-middle class.

The central issue of our time remains the fact that the rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer.

There are only two families in the whole world, my old grandmother used to say, The Haves and the Have-Nots.

The working poor is a growing population in this country.