Rohit Shetty Quotes

Your poverty is my shame.

I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion... some places where there's just no reason to smile, because their lives are so difficult.

We have no chance to comprehend what goes on there - it's so dramatic, and people are so poor. We all felt bad about being there. Filming in India felt like we were going to borrow something knowing that we were never going to give it back.

Every hour I spent on manual work, every hour I was humiliated in England or degraded has helped me because that's the same way other people feel in the townships here. People are still walking long distances and are working long hours.

Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there is exploitation and cruelty.

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

Drag a $100 bill through a trailer camp and there's no telling what you will find.

Capitalism has only hurt Latin America.

If there is a rich man in the area three villages are ruined.

The Latin root of 'precariousness' is 'to obtain by prayer.' The precariat must ask for favours, for charity, to show obsequiousness, to plead with figures of authority. It is degrading and stigmatizing.

The devil wipes his breech with poor folks' pride.

The worst thing about poverty is not the actual living of it, but the shame of it.

...men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption: it is the "culture of waste." If you break a computer it is a tragedy, but poverty, the needs, the dramas of so many people end up becoming the norm.

The people suffer from famine because of the multitude of taxes consumed by their superiors. It is through this that they suffer famine.

Government Steals from the needy and gives to the greedy

Poverty is curable, but it’s just not done, because it's not profitable. And that is the kind of violence that's perpetuated on humanity.

It is not pornography that is obscene, it is hunger that is obscene.

Oh! God! That bread should be so dear, and flesh and blood so cheap!

Those who have little shall have less, and that those who have much shall take all that others have left.

I was ashamed to let anyone know that I was living in a shelter. I remember one time coming home and some kids saw me and were like, "What you doing here? This is a shelter!" But I was like, "My mom's working there." It was pretty embarrassing.

Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.

There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery

Hear me people: We have now to deal with another race - small and feeble when our fathers first met them, but now great and overbearing. Strangely enough they have a mind to till the soil and the love of possession is a disease with them. These people have made many rules that the rich may break but the poor may not. They take their tithes from the poor and weak to support the rich and those who rule.

The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.