Kofi Annan Quotes

The issue of wealth inequality is ... the great moral issue of our time.

For the good of Spain, I should like there to be rather fewer rich people and rather fewer poor.

To be concerned about inequality is not engaging in class warfare.

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

Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man's injustice to his fellow man.

One thin's sure and nothing's surer The rich get richer and the poor get - children. In the meantime, In between time...

You need to look at inequality as a typical condition of modern society.

Contrary to age-old prejudices, the wealth of the rich is not the cause of the poverty of the poor, but helps to alleviate that poverty.

I think the gap between rich and poor is an extremely dangerous phenomenon and needs the immediate attention of the state.

The only way to have a better world and end poverty is by closing the gap between the top and the bottom.

I think greed is a critical problem - the gap between the poor and the rich. The gap between the top 10 percent and the bottom 10 percent.

When inequality gets too extreme, then it becomes useless for growth, and it can even become bad because it tends to lead to high perpetuation of inequality over time and low mobility.

To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, that concerns me.

The difference of the degrees in which the individuals of a great community enjoy the good things of life has been a theme of declaration and discontent in all ages.

I'm interested in illuminating the enormous disparity between vast poverty and the tiny upper class... This vast inequity is unfair by definition, and I am interested in illuminating that and, where possible, changing that.

The rich are few everywhere, the poor many.

The needs of the poor take priority over the desires of the rich

If work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.

The distribution of wealth is just as important as its creation.

It is wrong to say God made rich and poor; He made only male and female

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

We learned many years ago that the rich may have money, but the poor have time.

Rising inequality has changed family dynamics for all socioeconomic groups.

We do not postpone the participation of the lower classes of our people in the profits of economic enterprise, and in other countries, they do postpone it. In the long run, I think our policy is better, and we stand by it.

There's more poor people in this country than there are rich, and I stick up for the poor people.