Betty Smith Quotes

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

The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.

The rich are different from us.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.

The rich are few everywhere, the poor many.

Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.

Financial leverage is the advantage the rich have over the poor and middle class.

Let no one try to justify the glaring difference between the classes and the masses, the prince and the pauper, by saying that the former need more.

The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.

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.

It's quite confusing being one of the less wealthy people at a posh place.

Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality.

The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider.

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

Growing up I always felt like I was living on the other side of the tracks. I knew the people on the other side had more resources, more money, happier families.

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.

The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

If class warfare is being waged in America, my class is clearly winning.

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.

It is easy to say that there are the rich and the poor, and so something should be done. But in history, there are always the rich and the poor. If the poor were not as poor, we would still call them the poor. I mean, whoever has less can be called the poor. You will always have the 10% that have less and the 10% that have the most.

The French don't think everyone should have the same bank balance, but they're offended by extremes of inequality.

The rich are different than you and me: they have more money and they have more power.

A lot of the things that we think of as being racial differences are really class differences in America.