Henry Rollins Quotes

The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.

The middle class of this country, our historic backbone and our best hope for a strong society in the future, is losing its place at the table.

I do think that there is both a very powerful sense of entitlement and a kind of bubble of wealth which makes it hard for the people at the very top to understand the travails of the middle class.

You can only choose between rich and poor. The middle class is gone.

Income inequality has become so prevalent in the U.S. that examples of its negative impact on the middle class are as common as Kanye West saying something cringeworthy in the media.

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.

I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.

The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.

The middle-class America of my youth was another country.

The middle class serves as a bridge between the haves and the have-nots. If it goes, so goes political stability.

Nobody talks about the poor. Everybody talks about the middle class and just kinda want to ignore that the poor exist. And you cannot ignore that they exist if you want to help them.

Uncertainty and fears of social decline and exclusion have reached the middle class in many societies.

The anger from Occupy Wall Street is coming from this simple fact: America no longer seems to be a place where you can work your way up, from rags to riches, from lower class to middle class to upper class.

Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as a child. It's something I've revisited a few times in my writings.

No matter how wealthy a few plutocrats get, we can never drive a great national economy. Only a thriving middle class can do that.

If you have extremes of haves and have-nots where the gap keeps growing, the have-nots group together and create social disorder, as they can't see a way out of their situation.

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

It is clear that the economy has not gotten better for everyone.

Millions of people are falling out of the middle class into the ranks of the poor.