Noreena Hertz Quotes

No harm is done by the possession of Luxury by some people if only at the same time EVERYBODY HAS ENOUGH. The wrong incurred by the rich toward the poor lies solely in the fact that while they revel, the poor starve

Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.

The central issue of our time remains the fact that the rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer.

Hunger, the inseparable companion of the poor, is the offspring of the unequal distribution of the wealth and the injustices in this world. The rich do not know hunger.

The needs of the poor take priority over the desires of the rich

Only the poor are forbidden to beg.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

Working at the Food Bank with my kids is an eye-opener. The face of hunger isn't the bum on the street drinking Sterno; it's the working poor. They don't look any different, they don't behave any differently, they're not really any less educated. They are incredibly less privileged, and that's it.

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.

A considerable share of the world's population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care.

The money I pay for my cultural experiences came willingly from my own pocket - they were not the result of bread being removed from the mouths of the poor so that Miss Thing here could mince off to the circus smelling of roses.

There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.

However imperfectly, subsidies for the poor do actually reduce hunger, ease suffering and create opportunity, while subsidies for the rich result in more private jets and yachts. Would we rather subsidize opportunity or yachts? Which kind of subsidies deserve more scrutiny?

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

I've seen it with my own eyes: When government takes money from the poor and the middle class, everyone suffers.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

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

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

If work were good for you, the rich would leave none for the poor.

No one should be richer than a ten millionaire and no one should be without a home.

We know that there were no weapons of mass destruction over there. But we know, and Coretta knew, that there are weapons of misdirection right down here. Millions without health insurance. Poverty Abounds. For war millions more, but no more for the poor.

The rich are few everywhere, the poor many.

Welfare for the wealthy simply can no longer be afforded.

When I was a young fellow I was very much disturbed by there being some people with lots of money and lots of people with no money.