Alissa Quart Quotes

You don't want money to make you a social freak where you can only hang out with rich people.

My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich'.

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

The poor generally follow behavior patterns established by the rich.

Economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege

If Eleanor Roosevelt has her way, how are we going to tell the rich from the poor?

The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.

Americans have so far put up with inequality because they felt they could change their status. They didn't mind others being rich, as long as they had a path to move up as well. The American Dream is all about social mobility in a sense - the idea that anyone can make it.

As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to downgrade their own status.

Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.

I think America has dealt with - I mean, this is simplistic, and of course I don't live in America - but the impression I get is that there is not a kind of obligation to dislike those who are better off or be frightened of those who are worse off.

I have a feeling that life as a billionaire in Silicon Valley is very different than the life that you or I would lead. Unless you're a billionaire; I don't know your financial situation.

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.

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.'

At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.

In bad times, the rich usually get richer.

The rich don’t want the poor to get ahead of them.

The middle class is always a firm champion of equality when it concerns a class above it; but it is its inveterate foe when it concerns elevating a class below it.

Champagne Socialist

The competition of the poor takes away from the reward of the rich.

Like Venice’s oligarchs, America’s super-rich are destroying the social mobility that creates wealth.

The Great Gatsby Curve