Javier Bardem Quotes

In prosperous times the mercantile classes often realize fortunes, which go far towards securing them against the future; but unfortunately the working classes, though they share in the general prosperity, do not share in it so largely as in the general adversity.

Israel's middle class is paying for those below it, and that's fine, but also for those who are above it, and that's very wrong.

All of this talk of recession offends me. I am delighted that bankers have less money.

I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.

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

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

Inequality is bad for everyone, not just the middle class and the poor.

I'm really sick of the 'one percent' that is taking all the money from this country, draining the middle class, making it nonexistent.

Though many of the poor have come to see the affluent middle class as its enemy, that class actually stands between the poor and the real powers in this society - the administrative octopus with its head in Washington, the conglomerates, the military complex.

Despite Labour's achievements in government, we were too often seen as champions for global capital markets, which worked for bankers but did not seem to be delivering for the rest of Britain.

There's always been a nasty strain of class prejudice ingrained in the condemnation of football's 'undeserving rich,' as if the working class is uniquely susceptible to being corrupted by money, and as if they deserve their wealth less than those born to it.

Average working people need more fresh starts. Big corporations, banks, and Donald Trump need fewer.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

Poverty is unnecessary.

No matter how wealthy a few plutocrats get, we can never drive a great national economy. Only a thriving middle class can do that.

American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.

Putting middle class families in jeopardy in order to protect the wealthiest among us isn't consistent with the values and priorities that most Americans share.

Middle class families should not be forced to scrape by with less while oil companies get away with more.

If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable.

What's dangerous is the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few individuals.

One of the things I get amused by is when my opponent talks about the middle class.

The vast majority of Pittsburghers don't come from any kind of serious dough.

It's true across the U.K. that those who had least to do with causing the economic crisis are carrying the heaviest burden. That's unacceptable.

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.

When we say 'less fortunate,' we generally mean the poor rather than the disabled, who actually are less fortunate. In truth, the poor are generally 'less fortunate' only in terms of genetics. They are certainly not less fortunate in the amount of help they receive.