J. D. Vance Quotes

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

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing.

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

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.

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

The world has grown rich and refined, but chiefly by the efforts of those who themselves continue poor and ignorant.

The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.

Inequality is bad for everyone, not just the middle class and the poor.

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

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

When I was a child, I didn't fly - we couldn't afford to fly. Flying was for rich people.

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

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

At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.

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

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.

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.

I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that, even within that, there is a lot of satisfaction and beauty if you happen to be one of the lucky ones, although that doesn't eradicate the reality of the suffering. It's all true at once, kind of humming and sublime.

Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

Inequality is on the rise.

George W. Bush has helped those who have most, hurt those who have least and ignored everyone in between.

When the producers of 'Why Poverty?' came to me to do a film about poverty in the United States, I asked if I could do a film about wealth instead. I tend to make films about perpetrators, rather than victims.

The issue of wealth inequality is ... the great moral issue of our time.