Orson Scott Card Quotes

There's no future in being poor.

If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count.

I would say I came from upper middle class family.

There never can be equality of rewards or possessions so long as the human plan contains varied talents and differing degrees of industry and thrift, but ours ought to be a country free from the great blotches of distressed poverty.

We do not accept that ours will ever be a nation of haves and have-nots. We must always be a nation of haves and soon-to-haves.

And living in Australia I am relatively well off.

Income inequality is troubling because, among other things, it means that many people in our society don't have the opportunities to advance themselves.

I am who I am. I can't pretend to be somebody who makes $25,000 a year.

Economic issues are a subset of social justice. Social justice is unimaginable without economic justice. Isn't that obvious?

The United States is a country where practically everybody considers himself middle class.

I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

My background is that I came from a middle class family, and I think those values stay where ever you go.

Our main task is not to see that people of great wealth add to it, but that those without much money have a greater chance to earn some.

I often think what it was like not to have much money. I don't think it's good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it.

We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?

The affluent society makes no meaningful distinction between luxury and necessity.

The middle-class America of my youth was another country.

For a number of years, I've wondered if people like us are the forgotten. We're not the poor, and we're not the rich. We're not the very young or the aged. We're the average American family.

The middle class of this country, our historic backbone and our best hope for a strong society in the future, is losing its place at the table.

In a good society, those in the middle and at the bottom ought to benefit significantly from economic growth. When the country prospers, everybody should prosper.

middling people

I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.

Nobody talks about the poor. Everybody talks about the middle class and just kinda want to ignore that the poor exist. And you cannot ignore that they exist if you want to help them.