Emmanuel Adebayor Quotes

I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth.

Traditionally the great men of our country have sprung from poor environments; that being so, it would appear we have long suffered from a severe lack of poverty.

Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.

You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too.

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

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

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

I was not born into a rich family or a family of government officials.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

I don't come from a privileged background.

There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Status in itself is criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people.

I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.

Money can't buy poverty.

We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.

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.

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

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.

Rich is not better.

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

The issue of wealth inequality is ... the great moral issue of our time.

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

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

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.

In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.