Charles Dickens Quotes

Traditionally the great men of our country have sprung from poor environments; that being so, it would appear we have long suffered from a severe lack of poverty.

The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.

On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.

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.

The defeats and victories for the people at the top aren't defeats and victories for the people at the bottom.

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

That system, unequal as it is indefensible, is the mightiest engine of oppression imposed upon an honest yeomanry since the feudal ages. This system places a high premium on wealth and a severe penalty on poverty.

one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

You can have class in the ghetto and trash in the White House.

The ignorance of the working class and the superior intelligence of the privileged class are superstitions fostered by ... universities and churches, and by all the centers of privilege.

There are a lot of people who were born into immense privilege who pretend that they weren't.

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

The rich stick together; the poor and the marginalised are thrown together.

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.

I don't think we live in a particularly equal society.

In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

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.

Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.

To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, that concerns me.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.

I think it's disingenuous to believe that being born into a privileged world means you feel like you are having an easy time.