Mohsin Hamid Quotes

The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.

We live in a very unequal society.

The reality in the neighborhood that I live in is: if I don't constantly reconcile what I have against what other people don't, either I need to leave and be around other people who have what I have, or I'm constantly engaged in this kind of dynamic flow of opportunity and sharing.

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.

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

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.

The poor developed an envy and an extreme jealousy, born of the realization that they are as worthy, or even more worthy than the wealthy, and are nonetheless afflicted with poverty, hunger, misery, and contempt.

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.

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.

Increasingly, we're seeing two worlds in Canada. The world for most Canadians is increasingly unaffordable, involves more precarious work, and is a harder place in which to get by. The second world is an exclusive club for the wealthy and well-connected who get special access and are exempt from rules the rest of us play by.

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.

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

We're running out of rich people in this country.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

Growing up I always felt like I was living on the other side of the tracks. I knew the people on the other side had more resources, more money, happier families.

In 1750, 75 percent of people on the planet worked to support the top 25 percent.

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, that concerns me.

The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.

In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.

Social inequality … divides society into two classes -- the wage-slaves and the grabbers of capital

Why did the world ever become so unequal?

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

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