James Green Somerville Quotes

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.

I think class is still an issue in this country.

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

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.

Class still matters in Britain today.

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

And understand: class differences will not save you.

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

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

I always felt slightly grubbier than most American people.

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

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

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

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

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

My job is to raise issues relating to class in Ireland.

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.

A meritocracy increases inequality --- by its very nature, it has to.

As income inequality increases, social mobility falls.

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

The Great Gatsby Curve

In this respect, higher education is now causing most of the growing inequality and strengthening class structure of the United States.

Americans have historically been more willing than Europeans to tolerate high inequality levels if accompanied by strong economic growth and a healthy middle class.