Abhijit Banerjee Quotes

What I quickly discovered is that our so-called new South Africa has as much material for a story-teller as the old one. The landscape hasn't really changed. Who is in power now is different to who was in power then, but the squatter camps grow like cancer, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer.

In middle-income countries, inequality becomes a problem because you can see there is a layer of people who are doing well, while the poor are still stuck there.

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

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

Society is composed of two great classes-those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

We are undemocratic, then, in our religion, as is proved by our efforts to “raise” the poor.

There are no great lords who possess everything and a herd of people who have nothing

In the developed world, income inequality within the country is the most important determinant of health standards and life expectancy.

No society is healthy when the gap between the rich and the poor is growing.

In Delhi there was no war other than the usual one -- the war of the rich against the poor.

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

Greater inequality in Europe has made people less happy.

Class still matters in Britain today.

We're creating these massive urban areas in the Third World. It's like you take the entire population of California and put it in one city. Then you remove basic sanitation and medical services, and you have a ticking biological time bomb.

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.

We can't have it so there are skyscrapers side by side with slums.

Poverty and lack of education are ruining our planet.

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.

A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert.

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.

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.

I've lived places these guys can't defecate in.

We spend more on cows than the poor.

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.