Aldous Huxley Quotes

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

Israel's middle class is paying for those below it, and that's fine, but also for those who are above it, and that's very wrong.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

If everybody lives in the same way, there's something almost narcotizing about it, but the true misery of economic class difference is knowing that you can't have what somebody else does.

Everything in America is so stratified by class now. We have the 93rd level of income inequality in the world. You're already seeing highway lanes that are for pay and ones that aren't.

If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it.

We tax the people in Watts to send the children of Beverly Hills to college.

That system, unequal as it is indefensible, is the mightiest engine of oppression imposed upon an honest yeomanry since the feudal ages. This system places a high premium on wealth and a severe penalty on poverty.

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing.

The rich don’t need to rely on government … -- they can buy … things for themselves. In the process, they become more distant from ordinary people, losing whatever empathy they may have once had. They also worry about strong government: one that could use its powers to … take some of their wealth, and invest it for the common good.

The possession of wealth does not confer upon the wealthy the right to take advantage of the less fortunate.

The rich...should beg the poor to forgive us for the bread we bring them. Healthy people sometimes feel they need to beg forgiveness too, although there is no reason why. Maybe we simply ask forgiveness for not being born where these poor women have been born, knowing that if we lived here too, our fate might well have been the same.

If you are a rich person straining every sinew to keep every last pound in your pocket, there comes a point when you realize you are not just escaping the clutches of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. You are passing a greater burden on to people poorer than yourself, and depriving even poorer people of your support.

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

There's a wealth gap that is happening, and that is all over the world, you know? The rich are getting richer and holding a higher percentage of money or wealth that's out there.

The way corporate media likes to portray America is as a homogenous whole that high-five's each other at the Super Bowl. But what we have is a grotesque disparity between the rich and poor that is only getting wider.

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.

I identify with the 99 per cent.

When I was a child, I didn't fly - we couldn't afford to fly. Flying was for rich people.

Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined by birth.

I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.

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

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.

Rich folks always talk hard times.