Labrinth Quotes

You see, I was born in the slums, that was before the ghetto. The ghetto was kind of refined; the slums was right there on the ground.

In a city like New York, you're aware of the rich and poor.

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

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

We live in a very unequal society.

If you have extremes of haves and have-nots where the gap keeps growing, the have-nots group together and create social disorder, as they can't see a way out of their situation.

People talk about places like Mumbai as a tale of two cities, as if the rich and poor don't have anything to do with each other.

Our family's fortune is growing faster than ever. We're a part of a small number of American families that own most of the country's wealth. But having so much in the hands of so few can't be good for America.

Growing up I always felt like I was living on the other side of the tracks. I knew the people on the other side had more resources, more money, happier families.

Growing richer every day, for as rich and poor are relative terms, when the rich are growing poor, it is pretty much the same as if the poor were growing rich. Nobody is poor when the distinction between rich and poor is destroyed.

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

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

I do not believe in widening the income gap between rich and poor, and my life's work in the inner city of Detroit demonstrates that far more than any sound bite.

Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most.

The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

I think people are always going to be fascinated about the haves and have nots - about the divide between the servants and the rich families upstairs.

If we were in India now, there would be servants standing in the corners of this room and I wouldn't notice them. That is what my society is like, that is what the divide is like.

The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.

Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The more millionaires, the more paupers

The central issue of our time remains the fact that the rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer.

The rich are few everywhere, the poor many.

The wall between rich and poor is a wall of glass which all can see.

Poverty divide not only nations but societies within nations.

There are but two families in the world … The haves and the have-nots.

... 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.