Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

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

I am not biased against the rich because they are rich, but the most lively people are those without money who would like to have some

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror.

Whether you're rich or poor, life's still cold-blooded.

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.

There are huge divorces and divides and chasms in black America between the have-gots and the have-nots, between the monied and the poor, between the educated and the non-educated. And there are huge and growing chasms daily. And I want to say that it's not simply about generation. It's about genre.

I was in a high school where everybody was a click better off.

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.'

Never forget that there are rich people in poor countries and poor people in rich countries.

It's not an underclass anymore; it's an outer class.

... popular art has no chance of a healthy life, or, indeed, of a life at all, till we are on the way to fill up this terrible gulf between riches and poverty.

As income inequality increases, social mobility falls.

Income inequality is one thing, but a permanent division into the haves and have-nots is an entirely different thing - and much less acceptable.

I grew up in Northern Ireland, in the middle of nowhere, and when you are poor, you are really poor. And when you are rich, you are very rich. This is not a new phenomenon.

In America, the 1 percent and the 10 percent are doing just fine, but the people who are bearing the brunt of this economy are the ones who suffer.

Poor people know poor people, and rich people know rich people. It is one of the few things La Rochefoucauld did not say, but then La Rochefoucauld never lived in the Bronx.

Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.

There were but two families in the world, Have-much and Have-little.

I identify with the bottom of the pyramid, because, outside of having money, I am at the bottom of the pyramid.

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

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

Most Bolton students were scions of the city's wealthiest families. My crewe stuck out like hooker at church. We werent part of their pampered, priveliged world, and many of our classmates were quick to remind us of that fact. Taunting the "boat kids" was practically a varsity sport.

I'm not one of these people who thinks everyone born into privilege should wear sack cloth and ashes. But it's something I wrestle with. I know a lot of people who live below the poverty level and have for a long time and it makes them uneasy to think they'll have to interact with people from different economic levels. Everyone has some sort of load put on them, whatever the circumstances they're born into.

From the fact of general well-being came the new position of the poor. They were now in most communities a minority. The voice of the people was now the voice of relative affluence. Politicians in pursuit of votes could be expected to have a diminishing concern for the very poor. Compassion would have to serve instead - an uncertain substitute.