Quotes About The Have Nots

#1. The distance between the haves and the have-nots is a train ride.

Adriana Trigiani

#2. I'm not the kind of writer who's able to block out the world around me. I'm mindful of our own haves and have-nots, how our culture often blames and punishes the have-nots. I worry about our precarious economic and political climate.

Julianna Baggott

#3. 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.

Michael Eric Dyson

#4. Lord, there has never been a human society without overweening pride at the top and bitter envy at the bottom. That is why if the "have-nots" ever overthrow the "haves" they become the same.

Timothy Keller

#5. Whether as a radical student, a community organizer or a far left politician, Barack Obama's ideology has been based on a vision of the Haves versus the Have Nots ... Obama's ideology is an ideology of envy, resentment, and payback.

Thomas Sowell

#6. Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.

Jared Diamond

#7. If you have extremes of haves and have-nots where the gap keeps growing, the have-nots group together and create social disorder, as they can't see a way out of their situation.

Ross Kemp

#8. We live in a state of economic apartheid. The laws are there to protect the the haves from the have-nots.

C.J. Stone

#9. Begin to be aware of your tendency to make the "haves" bad and the "have nots" good. Ask God to help you to be grateful for what you have, and to rejoice in the good things that others have.

Henry Cloud

#10. Today, the rich are the haves and the poor are the have-nots. Tomorrow, the rich will be the have-food and the poor will be the have-not food.

Bill Gaede

#11. 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.

Tavis Smiley

#12. It's like high school holds two different worlds, revolving around each other and never touching; the haves and the have-nots. I guess it's a good thing. High school is supposed to prepare you for the real world, after all.

Lauren Oliver

#13. If the problems created by the industrial age were left unattended, Roosevelt cautioned, America would eventually be "sundered by those dreadful lines of division" that set "the haves" and the "have-nots" against one another.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#14. There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.

Miguel De Cervantes

#15. Mankind has been and is divided into three parts: the Haves, the Have-Nots, and the Have-a-Little, Want Mores.

Saul Alinsky

#16. Another current catch-phrase is the complaint that the nations of the world are divided into 'haves' and the 'have-nots.' Observe that the 'haves' are those who have freedom, and that it is freedom that the 'have-nots' have not.

Ayn Rand

#17. Race is totally overhyped these days, black people need to get over themselves, it's all about class now, the haves and the have-nots,

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#18. Today, there are three kinds of people: the haves, the have-nots, and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-haves.

Earl Wilson

#19. Soon the digital divide will not be between the haves and the have-nots. It will be between the know-hows and the non-know-hows.

Howard Rheingold

#20. 'The Prince' was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. 'Rules for Radicals' is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.

Saul Alinsky

#21. When there is love, sharing the have-nots feels just as good as sharing the haves. We

Arion Golmakani

#22. Because no being can live in a perfect world. Life is destined to fight to survive. To thrive. To prosper. To have more than the have-nots. All life destroys in order to live.

Darynda Jones

#23. I've always wanted to write about the other side of the tracks, the have-nots, maybe because that's who I was.

Matt De La Pena

#24. Schools are not equal. There are still the haves and the have-nots.

Erin Gruwell

#25. Bling is not an indication of riches. It is a product of value-based spending, to enrich the pockets of those outside of ones sphere of influence ... the haves' bleeding the have-nots'.

T.F. Hodge

#26. We live in a world in which we're seeing an increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#27. Liberals talk about the 'income inequality' and the 'unfairness' and the disparity of the haves and the have-nots in New York City. Who has been running that city for all this time? Who has created the underclass in this country? It's the Democrat Party.

Rush Limbaugh

#28. Have and the have nots. Why do people say that, it's stupid? I think it should be the gets and the get nots; that makes more sense.

James Jean-Pierre

#29. I sit in my loft with the haves and look out at the have-nots - the bottom of the bottom - and I have to rationalize it, ... Am I pushing out the homeless?

Thomas Reid

#30. In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.

David Korten

#31. No war can end war except a total war which leaves no human creature on earth. Each war creates the causes of war: hate, desire for revenge and have-nots, desperate with need.

Zelda Popkin

#32. As the haves and have-nots split further and further apart, destabilization ultimately leads to revolution, not evolution. If we're playing the evolution vs. revolution game, we are closer to revolution than we are to evolution in my concept.

Ram Dass

#33. We seemed to be heading toward a revolution that would not only see a battle between the haves and have-nots, but between the fundamentalists and the progressives - actually that war had already begun, and it did so long before September 11.

Michael Lister

#34. Before the thunderous clamor of political debate or war set loose in the world, love insisted on its promise for the possibility of human unity: between men and women, between blacks and whites, northerners and southerners, haves and have-have-nots, self and self.

Aberjhani

#35. The Beatitudes, far from being a new set of virtues that further divide the religious haves and have nots, are words of hope and healing to those who have been marginalized.

James Bryan Smith

#36. Many of my friends and family are scratching it out somewhere decidedly south of the ever widening gap between the haves and have nots, looking at losing their homes, colleges they can't afford and healthcare they can't avail themselves of.

Don Cheadle

#37. I think people are always going to be fascinated about the haves and have nots - about the divide between the servants and the rich families upstairs.

Neil Jackson

#38. This country's going to have a revolution if something doesn't happen the haves and have - nots.

Arthur Rock

#39. The haves and have-nots can often be traced back to the dids and did-nots. D. O. FLYNN

Dave Ramsey

#40. I believe that in this new world that we live in, we often have a responsibility, you know, to actually go beyond the thou shalt nots - that is, the not harming others - and say we can help others and we should be helping others.

Peter Singer

#41. When you look at Mark Zuckerberg and Snapchat and all these twentysomething billionaires, it's really kind of fascinating; a classic tale of the haves and have-nots.

Steven Bochco

#42. I am sure you have been brought up in the school of "must" and "must not" and hence, you have destroyed thought and feeling. You have been bound and crippled by systems, methods, by your teachers. So leave all those "musts" and "must nots.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#43. Forget what you may have heard about a digital divide or worries that the world is splintering into 'info haves' and 'info have-nots.' The fact is, technology fosters equality, and it's often the relatively cheap and mundane devices that do the most good.

William J. Clinton

#44. Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots.

Eduardo Galeano

#45. If we're going to live an ethical life, it's not enough just to follow the thou-shalt-nots. ... If we have enough, we have to share some of that with people who have so little.

Peter Singer

#46. A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#47. [On The Hunger Games success]: It hit on the zeitgeist of the disparity b/w the haves and have nots.

Nina Jacobson

#48. It's not white versus black any more, it's haves versus have-nots. Unless the black middle-classes unite to promote the interests of the black underclass, tension between them is inevitable. What we, the black middle class have to do, is think of a strategy to avert that.

Henry Louis Gates

#49. If policymakers are serious about avoiding a society of TV 'haves and have-nots,' they should refrain from policies that favor pay-TV operators over the providers of our nation's only free and local communications system: over-the-air broadcasting.

Gordon Smith

#50. The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.

Gertrude Stein

#51. Might have, could have, may have, should have - the haves and have nots reduced to pointless possibilities.

Terry Brooks

#52. The real 'have' and 'have nots' are between the people who were caught sinning verses the ones who got away with committing sin.

E. Leo Foster

#53. A world no longer of haves and have-nots, but of the engaged and the apathetic.

James S.A. Corey

#54. The difference between the Haves and Have-nots? The will to sacrifice and to do what others won't ... Very simple.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#55. Dear God, Please untie the nots. All of the can nots, should nots, may nots and have nots. Please erase from my mind the thoughts that I am not good enough.

Iyanla Vanzant

#56. Those who eat porridge and those who drink gruel live and die.
Even though the faces change,
porridge eaters and gruel drinkers continue to manifest.

Santosh Lamichhane