George Monbiot Quotes

Hunger, the inseparable companion of the poor, is the offspring of the unequal distribution of the wealth and the injustices in this world. The rich do not know hunger.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

The rich have all the speech they want; the poor have lockjaw.

The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.

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

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

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.

At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.

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.

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

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.

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

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

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

The central issue of our time remains the fact that the rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer.

The rich are few everywhere, the poor many.

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.

When I was a young fellow I was very much disturbed by there being some people with lots of money and lots of people with no money.

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.

Riches run after the rich, and poverty runs after the poor.

... the wrong and evils of the money-piling tendency of our country ... giving all power to the rich and bringing in pauperism.

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

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

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

The rich don’t need to rely on government … -- they can buy … things for themselves. In the process, they become more distant from ordinary people, losing whatever empathy they may have once had. They also worry about strong government: one that could use its powers to … take some of their wealth, and invest it for the common good.