Joyce Cary Quotes

Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror.

That was always my experience-a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton .... However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works.

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

Poverty divide not only nations but societies within nations.

There are but two families in the world … The haves and the have-nots.

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

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

I'm not one of these people who thinks everyone born into privilege should wear sack cloth and ashes. But it's something I wrestle with. I know a lot of people who live below the poverty level and have for a long time and it makes them uneasy to think they'll have to interact with people from different economic levels. Everyone has some sort of load put on them, whatever the circumstances they're born into.

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

The rich's paradise was created by the poor's hell.

Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.

When you have an economically unequal society, you end up with huge swaths of society that are disposable, basically.

The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.

Poverty is a great equalizer

The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider.

Class still matters in Britain today.

The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.

The way corporate media likes to portray America is as a homogenous whole that high-five's each other at the Super Bowl. But what we have is a grotesque disparity between the rich and poor that is only getting wider.

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

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.

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

In middle-income countries, inequality becomes a problem because you can see there is a layer of people who are doing well, while the poor are still stuck there.

The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.

There are huge divorces and divides and chasms in black America between the have-gots and the have-nots, between the monied and the poor, between the educated and the non-educated. And there are huge and growing chasms daily. And I want to say that it's not simply about generation. It's about genre.

The messenger matters. When people of modest means complain about inequality, it usually gets written off as class warfare, but when billionaires complain, the problem is redefined.