Why the Poor Don't Kill Us Quotes

“I realised how readily I could forget that which my leftwing mind had always known: that nothing succeeds in reproducing itself better than a false sense of entitlement.”
― Manu Joseph, Why the Poor Don't Kill Us

“Most good people are just those who are afraid of being seen as bad. Which brings us to why some Indian billionaires fly economy.”
― Manu Joseph, Why the Poor Don't Kill Us

“India is rigged in such a way that apart from sports, the only other sphere where the talented poor can do well is politics.”
― Manu Joseph, Why the Poor Don't Kill Us

“The rich keep talking about how they subsidize the poor. They do. But it is also a fact that the poor subsidize our lifestyles by supplying labour cheaper than in much of the world.”
― Manu Joseph, Why the Poor Don't Kill Us

“This is a nation where the middle class pays a premium not for the quality of things but to ensure the other kind of Indians are not allowed entry.”
― Manu Joseph, Why the Poor Don't Kill Us

“And the disdain that Arundhati Roy has for Mukesh Ambani’s giant home—wouldn’t a malnourished tribal feel the same about Roy’s affluent home in Delhi’s prime Jor Bagh?”
― Manu Joseph, Why the Poor Don't Kill Us

“Every Indian who is not poor is, inescapably, a poverty-eradication thinker.”
― Manu Joseph, Why the Poor Don't Kill Us

“an unsung cause of human happiness is low standards.”
― Manu Joseph, Why the Poor Don't Kill Us

“Every revolution is created and sponsored by the second rung of the elite to trounce their oppressor, nominally in the interest of things like equality and fairness.”
― Manu Joseph, Why the Poor Don't Kill Us

“Envy is a thing between equals.”
― Manu Joseph, Why the Poor Don't Kill Us

“Most nations try hard to look richer than they are; India, in plain sight, is a lot poorer than it is in reality. This municipal ugliness of India conveys to the poor that the nation belongs to them, that it has not left them behind. The street chaos and our general civic disorder, too, have the same effect.”
― Manu Joseph, Why the Poor Don't Kill Us

“As in love, so in society, people who do not have power are quite nice. And in the case of the poor, it is another layer of retardation inflicted on them through very low self-worth.”
― Manu Joseph, Why the Poor Don't Kill Us

“The poverty of average Indians is a reason why most of my readers have a good life. It is very cheap to be middle class in India. Because the poor subsidize us all. They force the government and the markets to keep the prices of essentials, including water and electricity, very low, which we consume many times more than the average Indian. But the chief reason why India is a middle-class paradise and why our friends suffer when they go to the West is that the poor serve us for almost nothing.”
― Manu Joseph, Why the Poor Don't Kill Us

“As in love, so in society, people who donnot have power are quite nice.”
― Manu Joseph, Why the Poor Don't Kill Us

“The poverty of average Indians is a reason why most of my readers have a good life. It is very cheap to be middle class in India. Because the poor subsidize us all. They force the government and the markets to keep the prices of essentials, including water and electricity, very low, which we consume many times more than the average Indian.”
― Manu Joseph, Why the Poor Don't Kill Us