Marshall McLuhan Quotes

There’s just too much money in the hands of too few.

There's a wealth gap that is happening, and that is all over the world, you know? The rich are getting richer and holding a higher percentage of money or wealth that's out there.

Our family's fortune is growing faster than ever. We're a part of a small number of American families that own most of the country's wealth. But having so much in the hands of so few can't be good for America.

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.

The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.

Liberty is impossible if 36 thousand families at the top of the economic pyramid get as much income as 12 million families at the bottom.

The concentration of wealth in the hands of the few threatens the ability of ordinary people to raise their voices and have a say over how our societies are run.

The reversion of American society to a nation of the superrich and the rest... is straining the country in ways that go way beyond economics.

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most money. It was the fault of the rich, it seemed, but just how he did not know.

The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

What's dangerous is the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few individuals.

Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The more millionaires, the more paupers

It is the unvarying law that the wealth of the community will be in the hands of the few ...

Hunger, the inseparable companion of the poor, is the offspring of the unequal distribution of the wealth and the injustices in this world. The rich do not know hunger.

The "have nots" outnumber the "haves." No wonder the ruling class of every country grows more and more alarmed.

There are but two families in the world … The haves and the have-nots.

Riches run after the rich, and poverty runs after the poor.

... the wrong and evils of the money-piling tendency of our country ... giving all power to the rich and bringing in pauperism.

All the measures of government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

In every country, and under every government, particular men may be too rich.

The competition of the poor takes away from the reward of the rich.

Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat.

No matter how we name and dissect inequality, we must keep explaining the larger downside of such concentrated extreme wealth.