Vandana Shiva Quotes

The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.

Poor people always lose in struggles.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

You can have class in the ghetto and trash in the White House.

There is growing inequality. The families of the all-powerful Ministers are getting richer. The poor and hard-working Belizeans are getting poorer.

Poverty is not just a sad accident, but it's also a result of the fact that some people make a lot of money off low-income families and directly contribute to their poverty.

I could never understand why our lives felt like a struggle while those living off government largesse enjoyed trinkets that I only dreamed about.

One thin's sure and nothing's surer The rich get richer and the poor get - children. In the meantime, In between time...

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

With one hand I take thousands of rubles from the poor, and with the other I hand back a few kopecks.

There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate.

Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

What I worry about is the lack of understanding in society around the world that there is a divide in the world between those who have and those who do not.

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

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States.

I don't think it's good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it.

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind.

This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.

There was a time in my life when I was going in and out of houses that were extraordinarily different - from a working-class terrace in Northampton to the homes of friends who were really very wealthy. It was quite an odd position to be in, I realise looking back, and quite a nice one.

In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence.

In middle-income countries, inequality becomes a problem because you can see there is a layer of people who are doing well, while the poor are still stuck there.

I know people socially who live in countries where the wealth gap is more extreme than it is in America, and they live with full-time security. They live with the threat of getting kidnapped, or they live with the threat of people invading their homes.