will.i.am Quotes

The rich are few everywhere, the poor many.

It says anybody can make it, because we're all on a level playing field. But we're not on a level playing field. That 's precisely the point, and that's what the rich don't want to look at. They don't want to recognize that they're not producing wealth at all. They're hoarding wealth. That's different.

Republicans look after the rich, and Democrats focus on the needs of the middle class. Neither of them looks after the poor.

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

Our nation’s political spectrum is not left to right, but top to bottom. People can locate themselves on this rich-to-poor pole for this is not a theoretical positioning: It’s based on our actual experience with money and power.

Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.

The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.

Wealth inequality has increased.

The poor never estimate as a virtue the generosity of the rich.

It is easier to ask of the poor than of the rich.

But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most money. It was the fault of the rich, it seemed, but just how he did not know.

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

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

Let Socialists make the laws today and they would break them tomorrow. No sooner do the poor become rich than they harden their hearts to the miseries of the poor. In so far as it proposes to correct the evils of unequal fortune, Socialism aims to repeal the laws of nature.

Economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege

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

Surely there is something unlovely, to modern as against medieval minds, about marked inequality of either kind income or power.

There’s just too much money in the hands of too few.

The competition of the poor takes away from the reward of the rich.

The biggest drag on global growth in the coming decade will be income polarization.

No matter how we name and dissect inequality, we must keep explaining the larger downside of such concentrated extreme wealth.

I think inequality has gone past the point where it's helping us all get rich, and it's really becoming a serious threat.

The U.S. has some of the most significant income inequality in the developed world, yet people seem routinely to underestimate that fact.

The top end are still making bucket loads while maintaining the illusion of the American dream: that if you work hard enough, you can make a fortune. Meanwhile, the working and middle classes have been hollowed out of the system.

You have to be very poor and desperate, or very rich, or lucky, to live in Islington. We don't have the people in the middle, the people who serve the community.