Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle.

Everybody is not born with a silver spoon in their mouth. There are only a very small percentage of those types of people, you know what I mean?

We're leaving the House to people who either were born with a silver spoon in their mouth... or couldn't get better jobs in the first place.

What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.

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.

The idea that there is a meritocracy where anyone from any background really might have the social and economic mobility to rise to the top in Silicon Valley, those are antithetical to a lot of the principles that the Trump administration apparently stands for.

The reality is, if you were fortunate to be born to rich parents, you have a better chance of succeeding in life. And that's wrong.

The rich are different from us.

Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women.

I'm aware that not all kids can pick up and fly to Panama. I'm very lucky.

I wasn't born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.

I'm ashamed to say that I'm from a very privileged background.

Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined by birth.

There are only two families in the whole world, my old grandmother used to say, The Haves and the Have-Nots.

Economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege

All Reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

The competition of the poor takes away from the reward of the rich.

The inequality that exists today, … derives less from the unequal availability of opportunity than from the unequal ability to exploit opportunity …

Inequality is an inevitable product of capitalist activity, and expanding equality of opportunity only increases it—because some individuals and communities are simply better able than others to exploit the opportunities for development and advancement that capitalism affords.

I do think that there is both a very powerful sense of entitlement and a kind of bubble of wealth which makes it hard for the people at the very top to understand the travails of the middle class.

There's a lot of freedom to do anything you want in Mexico. It's just that that freedom belongs to a few. It's a huge country with a big contrast. There is this big inequality, so those like us that have the chance to do things, we know we are very lucky.

All of us kids in the neighbourhood had to go shoeless for the same reason - all except the landlord's son, because his father had more income.

Let's take Taylor Swift. She lives in a huge beautiful apartment; she gets limo-ed everywhere. She's not seeing what it means to live in New York.

Inequality is partly a marker of success.

He remembered poor Julian [actually F. Scott Fitzgerald] and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, "The very rich are different from you and me." And how someone had said to Julian, "Yes, they have more money."