Malachi Martin Quotes

The burning issue of our time is the growing inequality in income and wealth in our country.

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.

I do think that there is both a very powerful sense of entitlement and a kind of bubble of wealth which makes it hard for the people at the very top to understand the travails of the middle class.

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

If you have extremes of haves and have-nots where the gap keeps growing, the have-nots group together and create social disorder, as they can't see a way out of their situation.

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.

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.

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.

There are huge divorces and divides and chasms in black America between the have-gots and the have-nots, between the monied and the poor, between the educated and the non-educated. And there are huge and growing chasms daily. And I want to say that it's not simply about generation. It's about genre.

The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.

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

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

The association of poverty with progress is the enigma of our times.

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.

It is surprising how few references in our politics there are to the underclass as compared by the middle class.

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

One fundamental issue which Trump did take advantage of was the increasing disparities of income in the United States. So many people saw the rich getting richer and it not being spread around. It's affecting European politics, too, now.

Income inequality has become so prevalent in the U.S. that examples of its negative impact on the middle class are as common as Kanye West saying something cringeworthy in the media.

If you don't have money or you come from a background that doesn't have money, it's harder to achieve your ambition in life. It's not that you can't, but it becomes harder. Inequality is one of the worst things that can exist in our society, so I am interested in those kind of things.

Uncertainty and fears of social decline and exclusion have reached the middle class in many societies.

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

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.