F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

There are but two families in the world … The haves and the have-nots.

The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.

The messenger matters. When people of modest means complain about inequality, it usually gets written off as class warfare, but when billionaires complain, the problem is redefined.

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

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

You can have class in the ghetto and trash in the White House.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.

Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the heartless self-indulgence of the rich.

In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.

Class still matters in Britain today.

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

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.

The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.

Social inequality … divides society into two classes -- the wage-slaves and the grabbers of capital

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

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

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.

Poverty divide not only nations but societies within nations.

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.

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing.

The top 1 percent have the best houses, the best educations, the best doctors, and the best lifestyles, but there is one thing that money doesn’t seem to have bought: an understanding that their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live. Throughout history, this is something that the top 1 percent eventually do learn. Too late.

The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.

… in the old days there were one thousand castes and destinies in India. These days, there are just two castes: Men with Big Bellies and Men with Small Bellies. And only two destinies: eat – or get eaten up