Johann Hari Quotes

As income inequality increases, social mobility falls.

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

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.

I think there's a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school.

Class still matters in Britain today.

Traditionally the great men of our country have sprung from poor environments; that being so, it would appear we have long suffered from a severe lack of poverty.

If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life.

The poor generally follow behavior patterns established by the rich.

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.

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

The Great Gatsby Curve

Our parents’ incomes play a larger role in our personal economic fortunes than is true for other peer countries.

In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

France has the least social mobility of any developed country. The social elevator no longer works. It's broken.

And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be.

Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined by birth.

The fact is that, except for those very few whose wealth is overwhelmingly or entirely inherited, the more affluent have usually worked harder than the less affluent.

The Right insists that anyone can escape poverty by working hard but that is simply not the case.

Ignorant people are apt to overrate the value of what is called education. The sons of the poor, having suffered the privations of poverty, think of wealth as the mother of joy.

The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.

An imbalance between the rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

The rich don’t want the poor to get ahead of them.

Society is composed of two great classes-those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.