"The People of the Abyss" Quotes
An eye-opening and scathing exposé of poverty and despair in the slums of London.
nonfiction | 208 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
For the first time in my life, I had before me the actual, concrete embodiment of the poor.
The abyss is made of the dead-weight of humanity, the unfit, the inefficients, the degenerates, the failures, the unfortunates.
The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.
He is a brute, and his children shall be brutes.
The poor are the raw material from which the rich make their profits.
The people of the abyss are dumb, unthinking animals.
The poor are not to blame for their poverty any more than the rich are to blame for their riches.
The slum is a welter of filth and mud, of squalor and disease, of unnamable things.
To be poor is to be damned body and soul.
