Quintilian Quotes

Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?

It is definitely true that adversity and hardship are not evenly distributed.

It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.

The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.

There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.

To see those babies with no food for three of four days, old people sitting in the hot sun, when you see these poor people, you cannot help but being compassionate or affected.

While we yearn for peace, we live in a world burdened with hunger, pain, anguish, loneliness, sickness, and sorrow.

Ignorance, filth, and poverty are the missionaries of crime.

As London is the greatest of all cities, there is naturally the greatest amount of human wretchedness to be seen concentrated within it; wretchedness too, that is made to look still more wretched, simply from the fact of its being associated with the most abundant comfort in the world.

People who are underprivileged have more to grieve and have more to overcome.

A lot of people have it tougher than I do.

The amount of suffering I've seen is beyond belief. The amount of inequality is beyond belief.

I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth.

I cannot live on an island of prosperity when I'm surrounded by a sea of misery.

It's hard to get people to empathize with the poor. You can get some people to sympathize with the poor, but to empathize is actually very hard, because most people are not poor. I realized that scarcity gives you a thread.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

We live increasingly in a world of haves and have-nots, of gated communities next to ghettos, of extreme poverty and unbelievable riches. Some enjoy rights that are completely denied to others. Relative inequalities are exploding, and the world's poorest, despite all the advances of globalisation, may even be getting poorer.

If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.

There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow and there has been enough of our elders who, having served their nation, are forced into indignity in their old age.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

I couldn't feel good about myself hanging out in Armani clothes when my girlfriend can't even pay her heating bill. I'd feel foul and I'd be embarrassed.

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.