Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes

If everybody lives in the same way, there's something almost narcotizing about it, but the true misery of economic class difference is knowing that you can't have what somebody else does.

There are only two families in the whole world, my old grandmother used to say, The Haves and the Have-Nots.

What is called sound economics is very often what mirrors the needs of the respectably affluent.

It's easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

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

Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

One of the things that strikes me is so many of the critics are people whose lifestyle doesn't change when the price of fuel changes, or if they keep a Wal-Mart store out of their area.

There are huge divorces and divides and chasms in black America between the have-gots and the have-nots, between the monied and the poor, between the educated and the non-educated. And there are huge and growing chasms daily. And I want to say that it's not simply about generation. It's about genre.

The issue of wealth inequality is ... the great moral issue of our time.

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

one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing.

…of all the causes of seditions and changes in the Republic, there is none greater than the excessive wealth of a few subjects, and the extreme poverty of the majority.

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

The rich don’t need to rely on government … -- they can buy … things for themselves. In the process, they become more distant from ordinary people, losing whatever empathy they may have once had. They also worry about strong government: one that could use its powers to … take some of their wealth, and invest it for the common good.

In prosperous times the mercantile classes often realize fortunes, which go far towards securing them against the future; but unfortunately the working classes, though they share in the general prosperity, do not share in it so largely as in the general adversity.

The greatest issue before the people—the question of special privilege and unequal distribution of wealth.

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

When the topic is growing income inequality, it's hard to prettify an imbalance between the rich and everybody else, so instead, conservatives try to argue that it doesn't exist.

All of us kids in the neighbourhood had to go shoeless for the same reason - all except the landlord's son, because his father had more income.

There aren't any poor cable hosts.

Obama's economic policies widened the gap between the rich and the poor.

The family of my mother had a lot of money; the family of my father, nothing.