Polly Toynbee Quotes

The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a lot of money can buy you a little more happiness. But in both cases, money does it.

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

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

Greater inequality in Europe has made people less happy.

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

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

Richer people tend to be happier than poor people, and people in poor countries tend to be less happy than people in rich countries.

‘Money can't buy happiness.’ That's just a lie we tell poor people to keep them from rioting in the streets

The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.

Inequality of income is bad for everyone, not just the poor and the middle class.

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

There is growing inequality. The families of the all-powerful Ministers are getting richer. The poor and hard-working Belizeans are getting poorer.

I think in the last thirty years, the rich have gotten richer and the poor have gotten poorer. It is not something that you can see with rose-colored glasses.

For all the obsession in Washington and in college faculty lounges over income inequality, why isn't there more outrage over government policies that exacerbate the problem? There are hundreds of programs that make the poor poorer and increase poverty in America.

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.

'Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream' is an intentionally angry film. How could it not be when the chance of an infant dying is five times greater on the Bronx Park Avenue than on Manhattan's Park Avenue just across the Harlem River?

It's really Democrats who are fighting for working families and small businesses and trying to address the biggest problems that we have, which are huge disparities in incomes and wealth and money influencing the Democratic process.

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

Money can't buy poverty.

The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind.

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.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

The goatherds were the poorest people of Spain. Probably, they were the richest.