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Top 10 Linda Tirado Quotes (2025 Update)

Linda Tirado Quote: “If you’re going to put as little as possible into my training and wages, if you’re going to make sure that I can’t get enough hours to survive in order to avoid giving me health care, and generally make sure that I’m as uncomfortable as possible at any given time just to make sure I know my place, then how can you expect me to care about your profit margin? Remember, you get what you pay for.”

1. “If you’re going to put as little as possible into my training and wages, if you’re going to make sure that I can’t get enough hours to survive in order to avoid giving me health care, and generally make sure that I’m as uncomfortable as possible at any given time just to make sure I know my place, then how can you expect me to care about your profit margin? Remember, you get what you pay for.”

— Linda Tirado

Linda Tirado Quote: “So let’s stop saying that poor people are irresponsible parents and start admitting that society doesn’t seem to believe that if you are poor you are entitled to be a parent at all. Given.”

2. “So let’s stop saying that poor people are irresponsible parents and start admitting that society doesn’t seem to believe that if you are poor you are entitled to be a parent at all. Given.”

— Linda Tirado

Linda Tirado Quote: “When you never have enough money it ceases to have meaning. I imagine having a lot of it is the same thing.”

3. “When you never have enough money it ceases to have meaning. I imagine having a lot of it is the same thing.”

— Linda Tirado

Linda Tirado Quote: “Some people have the luxury of asking themselves whether a job fulfills their career hopes and ambitions. I’ve got my own metric to gauge the fabulosity of a job: Does that job require me to keep my boss informed of the inner workings of my gastrointestinal system, or am I allowed to go to the bathroom at will?”

4. “Some people have the luxury of asking themselves whether a job fulfills their career hopes and ambitions. I’ve got my own metric to gauge the fabulosity of a job: Does that job require me to keep my boss informed of the inner workings of my gastrointestinal system, or am I allowed to go to the bathroom at will?”

— Linda Tirado

Linda Tirado Quote: “I was recently on a college campus and saw at least three kids passed out on benches or at tables. I was tempted to call campus security to report the scourge of people resting. It turns out that whether sleeping on a public bench is a crime or not depends entirely on whether you have enough money to look like you have a place to sleep. Another.”

5. “I was recently on a college campus and saw at least three kids passed out on benches or at tables. I was tempted to call campus security to report the scourge of people resting. It turns out that whether sleeping on a public bench is a crime or not depends entirely on whether you have enough money to look like you have a place to sleep. Another.”

— Linda Tirado

Linda Tirado Quote: “The logic is that if you’ve got excess money and throw it away on booze and cigarettes, then that’s your business. But if you’re poor, then that’s a sin and a shame. Because if you’re poor, rich people assume you’re on welfare, or you’re getting food stamps or some other social services. Once you take a penny from the government, a morality clause goes into effect, where you’re never allowed to have anything that you might actually enjoy. It’s the hair shirt of welfare.”

6. “The logic is that if you’ve got excess money and throw it away on booze and cigarettes, then that’s your business. But if you’re poor, then that’s a sin and a shame. Because if you’re poor, rich people assume you’re on welfare, or you’re getting food stamps or some other social services. Once you take a penny from the government, a morality clause goes into effect, where you’re never allowed to have anything that you might actually enjoy. It’s the hair shirt of welfare.”

— Linda Tirado

Linda Tirado Quote: “To be poor is to be treated like a criminal, under constant suspicion of drug use and theft.”

7. “To be poor is to be treated like a criminal, under constant suspicion of drug use and theft.”

— Linda Tirado

Linda Tirado Quote: “I am not, for all my frustration, opposed to capitalism. Most Americans, poor ones included, aren’t. We like the idea that anyone can succeed. What I am opposed to is the sort of capitalism that sucks the life out of a whole bunch of the citizenry and then demands that they do better with whatever they have left. If we could just agree that poor people are doing the necessary grunt work and that there is dignity in that too, we’d be able to make it less onerous.”

8. “I am not, for all my frustration, opposed to capitalism. Most Americans, poor ones included, aren’t. We like the idea that anyone can succeed. What I am opposed to is the sort of capitalism that sucks the life out of a whole bunch of the citizenry and then demands that they do better with whatever they have left. If we could just agree that poor people are doing the necessary grunt work and that there is dignity in that too, we’d be able to make it less onerous.”

— Linda Tirado

Linda Tirado Quote: “Telling an individual company to do better is a lot like telling an individual poor person to save more – true and helpful, but not so easy in practice.”

9. “Telling an individual company to do better is a lot like telling an individual poor person to save more – true and helpful, but not so easy in practice.”

— Linda Tirado

Linda Tirado Quote: “The reason that poor people wind up coping in ways that seem pointlessly self-destructive is that all the constructive stuff costs money. I.”

10. “The reason that poor people wind up coping in ways that seem pointlessly self-destructive is that all the constructive stuff costs money. I.”

— Linda Tirado

Linda Tirado Quote: “We have decided to lock people up for social deviancy these days. We tell ourselves that we’re not running debtors’ prisons, that this isn’t Dickensian.”

11. “We have decided to lock people up for social deviancy these days. We tell ourselves that we’re not running debtors’ prisons, that this isn’t Dickensian.”

— Linda Tirado

Linda Tirado Quote: “The question is, how can the rest of the country live knowing that so many of us have to live like this?”

12. “The question is, how can the rest of the country live knowing that so many of us have to live like this?”

— Linda Tirado

Linda Tirado Quote: “Being poor is something like always being followed around by violins making “tense” movie music. You know that commercial where the band Survivor follows a guy around playing “Eye of the Tiger”? Yeah, it’s like that, but the musicians are invisible and they’re playing the shower scene from Psycho.”

13. “Being poor is something like always being followed around by violins making “tense” movie music. You know that commercial where the band Survivor follows a guy around playing “Eye of the Tiger”? Yeah, it’s like that, but the musicians are invisible and they’re playing the shower scene from Psycho.”

— Linda Tirado

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