Matt Skiba Quotes

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones or inhabitants of different planets ... the rich and the poor.

The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

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.

I think greed is a critical problem - the gap between the poor and the rich. The gap between the top 10 percent and the bottom 10 percent.

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

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.

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.

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

I'm interested in illuminating the enormous disparity between vast poverty and the tiny upper class... This vast inequity is unfair by definition, and I am interested in illuminating that and, where possible, changing that.

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

Segregation by race has declined gradually since 1970, but separation by income has grown steadily in the same period.

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

Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.

There are only two families in the whole world, my old grandmother used to say, The Haves and the Have-Nots.

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

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

one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

The poorest people are so incredibly poor, and the rich are so incredibly rich on the other side. That is a kind of fascination.

Our society's sort of turning into a two-class system, where... most of the wealth and privileges are being concentrated into the hands of fewer and fewer people. And there's the rest of us... that have to go out and work and struggle and live and die and try to find some happiness and contentment and security.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

The rich stick together; the poor and the marginalised are thrown together.

I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.

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