Caste Quote by Charlotte Brontë

“I was not heroic enough to purchase liberty at the price of caste.”

— Charlotte Brontë

“I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with…

— Woodrow Wilson

“Philosophy was right to vaunt liberty ; it is the foremost desire of all creatures. But philosophy forgot that in civilized societies liberty is…

— Charles Fourier

“Civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism. These things are symptoms of political ineffiency. In a properly organized society like ours, nobody…

— Anonymous

“No, its the poor I tell you, and the poor only, as does such things for the poor. Don't think to come over me…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“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

“Not all slaves are poor, and not all free men are rich.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“They stole from rich merchants and temples and kings. They didn't steal from poor people; this was not because there was anything virtuous about…

— Terry Pratchett

“We who are born poor have to use cunning to get what we want. Scruples are for the privileged.”

— Ken Follett

“Poor is what people become, not what they are born to be.”

— Saji Ijiyemi

“Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“You are poor if you are ignorant, fortunate if you are knowledgeable, privileged if you are intelligent, rich if you are wise, and wealthy…

— Matshona Dhliwayo