No one can say how long the process of human extinction might take, but as it proceeds, the same global order will prevail that always prevails: rich nations will find ways to protect themselves and make themselves comfortable, while the poor nations and the poor people of the planet will suffer.

[W]hat is always overlooked is that although the poor want to be rich, it does not follow that they either like the rich or that they in any way want to emulate their characters which, in fact, they despise. Both the poor and the rich have always found precisely the same grounds on which to complain about each other. Each feels the other has no manners, is disloyal, corrupt, insensitive - and has never put in an honest day's work in its life.

Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true.

It's amazing how often campaigners in rich countries think poor people don't get backache.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.