Athol Fugard Quotes

An imbalance between the rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

… in the old days there were one thousand castes and destinies in India. These days, there are just two castes: Men with Big Bellies and Men with Small Bellies. And only two destinies: eat – or get eaten up

No society is healthy when the gap between the rich and the poor is growing.

I think greed is a critical problem - the gap between the poor and the rich. The gap between the top 10 percent and the bottom 10 percent.

The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

The rich don’t want the poor to get ahead of them.

Hunger, the inseparable companion of the poor, is the offspring of the unequal distribution of the wealth and the injustices in this world. The rich do not know hunger.

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

Society is composed of two great classes-those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

Allow the rich (no matter under what pretext, whether of philanthropy, or patriotism, or interest) to prescribe the education of the poor, and they prescribe their condition and relative importance.

America is like a melting pot. The people at the bottom get burned, and the scum floats to the top.

Poor men's words have little weight.

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing.

Obama's economic policies widened the gap between the rich and the poor.

The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.

In a city like New York, you're aware of the rich and poor.

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing. It's not politically viable; it's not morally right; it's just not going to happen.

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

If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to.

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.

At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.

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.

This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.

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