Moby Quotes

Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien; people there had a lot of money.

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.'

We had no money. My family was in Southie; I was in affluent Brookline. I don't know if it's my personality or the circumstance, but it all kind of led to this feeling of being an observer on the outside.

Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.

My parents worked their tails off, but we weren't the poorest people in town. Some people I went to school with, you could tell they were dirt poor.

I was the poorest kid in my school, poorest kid in my town, poorest family. That stayed with me forever.

What used to be racial segregation now mirrors itself in class segregation, this great sorting (has) taken place. It creates its own politics. There are some communities where not only do I not know poor people, I don't even know people who have trouble paying the bills at the end of the month. I just don't know those people. And so there's less sense of investment in those children.

Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.

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

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.

Growing up on, say, the Upper East Side, you're so isolated. If you go to the Hamptons every weekend, you never talk to a construction worker, and the construction worker would never talk to you.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.

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

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

There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

... 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.

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 bigger the gap there is between the rich and the poor, the less stable and successful the society will be

As income inequality increases, social mobility falls.

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

I do think that there is both a very powerful sense of entitlement and a kind of bubble of wealth which makes it hard for the people at the very top to understand the travails of the middle class.

There's more poor people in this country than there are rich, and I stick up for the poor people.

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.

Complaint is poverty.