Character Quote by Anonymous

“When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick and the…

— Sarah Kendzior

“for what justice is there in this: that a nobleman, a goldsmith, a banker, or any other man, that either does nothing at all,…

— Thomas More

I have observed that the prosperity or misery of each people is in direct proportion to its liberties or its prejudices and, accordingly, to…

— Jose Rizal

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The haggardness of poverty is everywhere seen contrasted with the sleekness of wealth, the exhorted labour of some compensating for the idleness of others,…

— Jean-Baptiste Say

The histories of the poor and the powerless are as important as those of their conquerors, their colonizers, their kings and queens.

— Johnnetta B. Cole

Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent

— Plato

The great, the rich, the powerful, too often bestow their favours upon their inferiors in the manner they bestow their scraps upontheir dogs, so…

— Lord Chesterfield

“there is nothing arrogant about mentioning ordinary people’s material concerns: the poor have the right to do it, and to talk about a readiness…

— Slavoj Žižek

Here in England the welfare of the State depends on the conduct of our aristocracy.

— Anthony Trollope

“The rich feel much less need than their predecessors to account for their wealth, whether to society, to governments or to God. Their attitudes…

— Anthony Sampson

“England is the most class-ridden country under the sun,” Orwell charged in “The Lion and the Unicorn.” “It is a land of snobbery and…

— Thomas E Ricks