Henning Mankell Quotes

When you have an economically unequal society, you end up with huge swaths of society that are disposable, basically.

I don't want there to be this separation between the rich and poor. I may be part of the three percent because I've been fortunate and done well for myself, but I will never forget about the 97 percent. That was me growing up. I was so poor I dreamt about being just 'regular poor,' not 'poor, poor.'

Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.

Complaint is poverty.

Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.

Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.

Poverty is the deprivation of opportunity.

Many of my friends and family are scratching it out somewhere decidedly south of the ever widening gap between the haves and have nots, looking at losing their homes, colleges they can't afford and healthcare they can't avail themselves of.

Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty.

Poverty fills armies, mans navies.

Income inequality is one thing, but a permanent division into the haves and have-nots is an entirely different thing - and much less acceptable.

Obama's economic policies widened the gap between the rich and the poor.

I don't really care much about what the top one per cent earn. The gap we ought to care about in wealth is between the middle and the bottom.

Many people assume that since New Jersey is a wealthy state with a high per capita income that a lot of these issues of poverty and hunger don't exist, and the fact is that they do.

Everyone's seen poverty - well, most have.

In America, the 1 percent and the 10 percent are doing just fine, but the people who are bearing the brunt of this economy are the ones who suffer.

We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

The problem is that people basically dangle debt in front of us. And the cost for the poor of course is much higher than for the wealthy.

Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.

To be able to proclaim the Good News to the poor we must know what is poverty.

Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.

What hurts me most is poverty, and that's what led me to become a rebel.

One function of the income gap is that the people at the top of the heap have a hard time even seeing those at the bottom. They practically need a telescope. The pharaohs of ancient Egypt probably didn't was a lot of time thinking about the people who build their pyramids, either.

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

There will be a debate on Firing Line between Buckley and Gore Vidal on the proposition: "This nation cannot survive as long as the income of 50 percent of the population is below the median." Mr. Vidal will take the affirmative.