Clive Bell Quotes

The poor generally follow behavior patterns established by the rich.

If Eleanor Roosevelt has her way, how are we going to tell the rich from the poor?

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

As income inequality increases, social mobility falls.

Even though Mr. Trump is a billionaire, he is still able to relate to average working men and women. The billionaire gets along with the bricklayer.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.

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.

When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which.

Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.

I think America has dealt with - I mean, this is simplistic, and of course I don't live in America - but the impression I get is that there is not a kind of obligation to dislike those who are better off or be frightened of those who are worse off.

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

The United States is a country where practically everybody considers himself middle class.

You can't define what's middle class, what is wealthy, what is poor.

I don't want there to be this separation between the rich and poor. I may be part of the three percent because I've been fortunate and done well for myself, but I will never forget about the 97 percent. That was me growing up. I was so poor I dreamt about being just 'regular poor,' not 'poor, poor.'

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

I'm tired of people on trust funds telling people on food stamps how to live.

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

That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation.

I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken stronger hold on the affections of men, and where the profounder contempt is expressed for the theory of the permanent equality of property.

Like Venice’s oligarchs, America’s super-rich are destroying the social mobility that creates wealth.

Most Americans seem to be stuck in the economic strata to which they were born.

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

I'm not going to do class warfare; I want to be wealthy.

I don't think of anyone as rich or poor.