House Quote by Gaby Hoffmann

In southern Italy, where my grandparents had lived, there were few opportunities. The society was static, with rigid social classes. Poor people, like my…

— Samuel Alito

“the welfare states of western Europe were not politically divisive. They were socially re-distributive in general intent (some more than others) but not at…

— Tony Judt

If our family was poor, of what did our poverty consist? If our clothes were torn the torn places only let in the sun…

— Sherwood Anderson

“We know that poverty is unpleasant; in fact, since it is so remote, we rather enjoy harrowing ourselves with the thought of its unpleasantness.…

— George Orwell

The middle class today would be poor by the standards of the 1950s. Today, with two people working, they would still live paycheck to…

— Peter Schiff

Socially, I never belonged to any class, rich or poor. To the rich I was poor, and to the poor I was poor pretending…

— John O'Hara

“Under Socialism, you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly fed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you liked it…

— George Bernard Shaw

O America, how you've taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

In part because of my own journey from a council estate in East London to a seat in the House of Commons, and in…

— Wes Streeting

“It was the American middle class. No one's house cost more than two or three year's salary, and I doubt the spread in annual…

— Michael Francis Moore

I grew up in poverty on the edge of a golf course. I saw how people lived on the other side of the tracks,…

— Arnold Palmer

I was one of the poorest people in America.

— Tom Noddy