In a society where those who work day and night are not much better off than them, what benefit is there in such a life?
Premchand Quotes on Poverty
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Authentic quotations from Premchand's works concerning poverty, debt, hunger, exploitation, peasants, labor, inequality, social exclusion, and economic injustice
It was a debt of three hundred rupees, with another hundred rupees of interest accumulating on it.
The debt is a guest who comes once and refuses to leave.
Here, even if a penny comes into your hands, the whole village hears of it and the creditors come from every direction to tear it away.
The poor and helpless are surrounded on every side by those ready to cut their throats; the farmer is everyone's softest target.
The moneylender's loan is such that even after years of payment, the debt can remain exactly where it was.
There is no grain in the house, no clothes on the body, and no money in the pocket; yet the people do not care.
The city is a place for the rich to live and trade; outside it lies land for their amusement, while courts in the middle choke the poor in the name of justice.