Chrystia Freeland Quotes

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.

They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.

Poverty divide not only nations but societies within nations.

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

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

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

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.

Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.

The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.

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 has just fallen further and further behind the rich.

The messenger matters. When people of modest means complain about inequality, it usually gets written off as class warfare, but when billionaires complain, the problem is redefined.

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

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

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

The middle class serves as a bridge between the haves and the have-nots. If it goes, so goes political stability.

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 middle class of this country, our historic backbone and our best hope for a strong society in the future, is losing its place at the table.

No society is healthy when the gap between the rich and the poor is growing.

The burning issue of our time is the growing inequality in income and wealth in our country.

There’s been an economic war going on in this country and the middle class and the poor have been losing..

Nobody talks about the poor. Everybody talks about the middle class and just kinda want to ignore that the poor exist. And you cannot ignore that they exist if you want to help them.