Miriam Toews Quotes

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

I do think that there is both a very powerful sense of entitlement and a kind of bubble of wealth which makes it hard for the people at the very top to understand the travails of the middle class.

I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.

Class still matters in Britain today.

Money can't buy poverty.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

If everybody lives in the same way, there's something almost narcotizing about it, but the true misery of economic class difference is knowing that you can't have what somebody else does.

Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.

The rich don’t want the poor to get ahead of them.

Most of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and have nots.

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

When I was a young fellow I was very much disturbed by there being some people with lots of money and lots of people with no money.

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

You can have class in the ghetto and trash in the White House.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing.

The poor developed an envy and an extreme jealousy, born of the realization that they are as worthy, or even more worthy than the wealthy, and are nonetheless afflicted with poverty, hunger, misery, and contempt.

The world has grown rich and refined, but chiefly by the efforts of those who themselves continue poor and ignorant.

… in the old days there were one thousand castes and destinies in India. These days, there are just two castes: Men with Big Bellies and Men with Small Bellies. And only two destinies: eat – or get eaten up

There’s been an economic war going on in this country and the middle class and the poor have been losing..

On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.

In America, the 1 percent and the 10 percent are doing just fine, but the people who are bearing the brunt of this economy are the ones who suffer.

A poore mans Cow dies a rich mans child.

That was always my experience-a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton .... However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works.

Poverty is a great equalizer