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This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.

Quotes by Susan George

I am a coolie and the son of a coolie. I was born with the poor, and I am still poor. My sympathies have always been with the struggling mass.

Quotes by Sun Yat-sen

As a young child, I suffered from poor health. My parents encouraged me to swim, which really improved my condition.

Quotes by Sui He

I am from the working class. I am now what I was then. No amount of balsamic vinegar and Prada handbags could make me forget what it was like to be poor.

Quotes by Sue Townsend

After watching my poor mother being sometimes neglected by my father, it was almost tattooed on my brain that I would never cause hardship or despair to a partner.

Quotes by Steven Berkoff

It turns out that the rich are much better placed to feed at the public trough. The poor get crumbs.

Quotes by Steve Hanke

Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.

Quotes by Stephen Sondheim

For all the obsession in Washington and in college faculty lounges over income inequality, why isn't there more outrage over government policies that exacerbate the problem? There are hundreds of programs that make the poor poorer and increase poverty in America.

Quotes by Stephen Moore

Social Security is the greatest swindle of the poor ever.

Quotes by Stephen Moore

Obama's economic policies widened the gap between the rich and the poor.

Quotes by Stephen Moore

I suspect the Left's obsession with raising tax rates is not about helping the poor or middle class or about lowering the budget deficit, but about tearing down the rich.

Quotes by Stephen Moore

If only the majority of the wealthiest top 10 percent of Americans own stock directly - which does not include pension and retirement accounts - then the divide between rich and poor is likely to expand.

Quotes by Stephen Moore

The prospects for a coherent, hilarious and consistent American comedy seem to lessen every year, as the poor waterlogged, gassy corpse called 'Evan Almighty' proved when it floated ashore recently. So there's a temptation to think too highly of Robin Williams's uneven but occasionally funny 'License to Wed.'

Quotes by Stephen Hunter

When I moved to Los Angeles, I wrote spec screenplays. I was really poor, and I thought I was just gonna do this for a while to make a little money so I could write novels. I thought movies were a second-class art form. I condescended to it - I didn't know enough to know it was really gonna be hard.

Quotes by Stephen Gaghan

In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.

Quotes by Stephen Gardiner

Proponents of the Central America Free Trade Agreement have conveniently ignored this fundamental fact: the effect of trade on incomes in Central America and how to alleviate the adverse consequences of trade liberalization on the poor.

Quotes by Stephen F. Lynch

I was very poor. As a child my dream was to have a leather football.

Quotes by Stephen Chow

I, like many annoying pedants, will wince when someone says 'less' when they should have said 'fewer.' But my 'poor' sounds like poo-ah, not pore; and my 'grass' rhymes with mass, not farce. What's wrong with that?

Quotes by Steph McGovern

Running those poor steers back and forth in the heat is ridiculous. What they ought to do is put the steers in the convention hall and run the delegates.

Quotes by Stanley Marcus

Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion.

Quotes by Sri Chinmoy

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. We have 300 million poor in India.

Quotes by Sri Mulyani Indrawati

I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.

Quotes by Sophie Tucker

There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.

Sophocles

You know all those models who say, 'I was so tall and lanky and everyone picked on me at school' - I was not that girl. I hear that and I'm like, 'Oh, you poor thing!'

Quotes by Sophie Monk

An economy growing at 7 percent per year, can and must find the resources to improve the lives of its millions of poor.

Quotes by Sonia Gandhi

My aim has always been to defend the secular foundation of our nation and the poor of our country - the creed sacred to Indiraji and Rajivji.

Quotes by Sonia Gandhi

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

Quotes by Sojourner Truth

The rich rob the poor, and the poor rob one another.

Quotes by Sojourner Truth

God will take care of the poor trampled slave, but where will the slaveholder be when eternity begins?

Quotes by Sojourner Truth

Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.

Quotes by Sitting Bull

When I don't get enough sleep, I am cranky, vulnerable to headaches, and my concentration is poor.

Quotes by Siri Hustvedt

Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.

Quotes by Simon Sinek

The poorest people are so incredibly poor, and the rich are so incredibly rich on the other side. That is a kind of fascination.

Quotes by Simon Beaufoy

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

Quotes by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants.

Quotes by Sidney Altman

The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.

Quotes by Sholom Aleichem

Not only am I literally and figuratively the dark horse, I'm actually the poor horse. The only thing that I have going for me is my soul and my commitment to the American people.

Quotes by Shirley Chisholm

Apparently I'm the most naked that anyone's been on TNT. My poor mother. I'm ready to run away.

Quotes by Sheryl Lee

Unfortunately, the former rulers during the era of dictatorship indulged in massive corruption in Punjab, and the hard-earned money of the poor nation was mercilessly looted.

Quotes by Shehbaz Sharif

Free quality health facilities have been made available to the children of the poor families through Daanish School System.

Quotes by Shehbaz Sharif

In 1978, when I was a non-Congress chief minister, we distributed surplus wheat among labourers. Later, when we visited a village, I asked a labourer whether he knew who sent the wheat. 'Yes, Indiraji - only Indiraji helps the poor.' Indiraji was a symbol for the weaker sections.

Quotes by Sharad Pawar

Poor people around the world spend more on energy because they lack the capital to buy a more expensive energy-efficient product.

Quotes by Sharan Burrow

I've slept with a couple of people and made some poor choices and put things in jeopardy with... what I was happy with, and that's my own fault. I've got no one else to blame about that stuff.

Quotes by Shane Warne

I have been running maths clubs for children completely free. In my building in Bangalore, I conduct maths clubs for several months, and every child who attended the club was poor in mathematics and is now showing brilliant results.

Quotes by Shakuntala Devi

The '90s came, and then the 2000s, and we saw radical corporate interest extremism, we've seen the disparity between rich and poor just get bigger, with globalisation and the corporate agenda on the rise ever since.

Quotes by Severn Cullis-Suzuki

It's hard to get people to empathize with the poor. You can get some people to sympathize with the poor, but to empathize is actually very hard, because most people are not poor. I realized that scarcity gives you a thread.

Quotes by Sendhil Mullainathan

In education, they say either property taxes have to go up, or we'll have poor education - that's a false choice.

Quotes by Scott Walker

Creed was ended by egos and people wanting to do their own thing and poor decision-making.

Quotes by Scott Stapp

Consistently rated the most peaceable of all countries in the world by the Global Peace Index, Iceland has reduced its military expenditure to zero, has no armed forces, and has reduced the inequality gap between rich and poor.

Quotes by Scilla Elworthy

Until these college students came into town, we were all very poor and didn't have money to do anything.

Quotes by Santiago Durango

I don't know how the poor farmers deal with such situations in real life. It's really sad.

Quotes by Sanjay Dutt

Anything that is not good for the poor people of India is not the policy of the Congress Party.

Quotes by Sanjay Gandhi

I thought that strange syntax was the language of story books. I didn't realize those were poor translations... English from Edwardian times.

Quotes by Sandra Cisneros

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Quotes by Samuel Pepys

Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.

Quotes by Samuel Pepys

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

Quotes by Samuel Richardson

Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.

Quotes by Samuel Horsley

Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.

Quotes by Sam Levenson

There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.

Quotes by Sally Field

I have a Creator who knew all things, even before they were made - even me, his poor little child.

Quotes by Saint Patrick

He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presence of his father.

Quotes by Saint Patrick

There is growing inequality. The families of the all-powerful Ministers are getting richer. The poor and hard-working Belizeans are getting poorer.

Quotes by Said Musa

We were poor, my mother and I, living in a world of doom and gloom, pessimism and bitterness, where storms raged and wolves scratched at the door.

Quotes by Said Sayrafiezadeh

Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common with thee in the produce of nature, which brings forth the fruits of the earth for use to all.

Quotes by Saint Ambrose

Verdiana was the child of poor though well-born parents, and her knowledge of the sufferings of the poor from her own experience in early years made her ever full of pity for those in need.

Quotes by Sabine Baring-Gould

The poor and minorities are disproportionately both crime's perpetrators and its victims. People are saddened when this happens but not surprised.

Quotes by S. J. Rozan

The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.

Quotes by Saadi

When work impedes on sleep, poor planning is to blame - not superior will power.

Quotes by Ryan Holiday

Who is affected more when it's cold? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's hot? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's wet? Poor people. Who is most affected when the economy is bad? Poor people. Poor people are the most fragile.

Quotes by Russel Honore

Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign.

Quotes by Rowan Williams

Making the best of things is... a damn poor way of dealing with them. My whole life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.

Quotes by Rose Wilder Lane

I would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies if I came here to talk good fellowship.

Quotes by Rose Schneiderman

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.

Quotes by Rosalind Russell

The idea was to make a movie ourselves with everyone playing a cameo role. Preferably before we all go, 'cos poor old Charlie Wilson was murdered, and of course Buster has gone.

Quotes by Ronald Biggs

Bioscience and biotech offer many opportunities. The U.S. focuses on the rich man; India has rich man diseases and poor man diseases. So you have a much larger set of opportunities.

Quotes by Romesh Wadhwani

Italy is divided between us and them, rich and poor, north and south, young and old, employed and unemployed.

Quotes by Romano Prodi

I came from a very poor family. And I was able to rise up and actually win an Academy Award. And if I can do it, then any kid can do it.

Quotes by Roger Ross Williams

When I was filming 'Prudence' in Zimbabwe, I noticed the hold fundamentalist Christianity had on sub-Saharan Africa. So I thought I'd like to make a film about religion in Africa because the prosperity gospel is big business where people are desperate, poor, and sick.

Quotes by Roger Ross Williams

I grew up poor, black, and working class.

Quotes by Roger Ross Williams

The American evangelical movement in Africa does valuable work in helping the poor.

Quotes by Roger Ross Williams

We weren't wealthy but we definitely weren't poor. We were incredibly rich because there was a wonderful community in Shepherd's Bush, where I grew up. All my friends were into villainy and crime.

Quotes by Roger Daltrey

I have to address the economic conditions of everybody, including, and perhaps first, those who are poor.

Quotes by Rodrigo Duterte

My family was very poor. Strangely, though, my father was an enigma in that he was always working. He was not a ne'er-do-well. He wasn't lazy. He just couldn't hold on to money. It just, it was an enigma for him. He just, his pockets were always empty.

Quotes by Rodney Crowell

I grew up poor in East Houston. I used to be ashamed of it, but I'm not anymore. It's kind of a badge of courage now.

Quotes by Rodney Crowell

Now that was one thing, but from an actor's point of view, this poor young man, crying from the moment I opened the door to the moment he left. Now if an actor did that they would say he's over-acting.

Quotes by Rod Steiger

It has always been an ambition of mine to make a record. I'm lucky to have a good team behind me. A very different story to the poor struggling artist. I'm very lucky.

Quotes by Roddy Llewellyn

No one can prevent hurricanes, but prosperous communities are much better able to withstand them than poor ones.

Quotes by Robert Zubrin

In the best days of our republic Americans were fiercely proud of the fact that rich and poor met on such equal terms in so many ways, and without the slightest trace of hostility.

Quotes by Robert W. Welch, Jr.

While the President leads his potential adversaries in almost every state, his support is soft. He is seen as honest, sincere, just, and friendly but gets mediocre or relatively poor ratings being competent strong, intelligent, and a forceful leader.

Quotes by Robert Teeter

There's no future in being poor.

Quotes by Robert Shaw

The job creators are members of America's vast middle class and the poor, whose purchases cause businesses to expand and invest.

Quotes by Robert Reich

In reality, most of America's poor work hard, often in two or more jobs.

Quotes by Robert Reich

Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and the rest of the Ivy League are worthy institutions, to be sure, but they're not known for educating large numbers of poor young people.

Quotes by Robert Reich

For a man without hobbies, I stand in a wonderful spot, where what I do is my best hobby, and everything else is a poor second.

Quotes by Robert Preston

I'd like CBS, at this point, to say where they got those documents from. I think they should say where they got these documents because I thought it was a very poor job of reporting by CBS.

Quotes by Robert Novak

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

The desperately poor may accept handouts, because they feel they have to. For those who consider themselves at least middle class, however, anything that smacks of a handout is not desired. Instead, they want their economic power back.

Quotes by Robert J. Shiller

All taxes, except a 'lump-sum tax,' introduce distortions in the economy. But no government can impose a lump-sum tax - the same amount for everyone regardless of their income or expenditures - because it would fall heaviest on those with less income, and it would grind the poor, who might be unable to pay it at all.

Quotes by Robert J. Shiller

Poor parenting may be reflected in poor sibling relationships.

Quotes by Robert J. Waldinger

There are 500,000 poor children in this state that did not choose to be poor, and we have to take care of them.

Quotes by Robert J. Bentley

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