Branko Milanovic Quotes

I am not biased against the rich because they are rich, but the most lively people are those without money who would like to have some

"Freedom" in capitalist countries exists only for those who possess money and who consequently hold power.

Poor people have the blues because they're poor and hungry. Rich people can't sleep at night because they're trying to hold on to their money and everything they have.

Global inequality is such an abstract concept, simply because there is no global government. Telling people in rich countries who have had no increase in real incomes, stagnant median wages and so on, that on the other hand global inequality is going down because people who are much poorer than them are getting richer - it's something that maybe they would like in an abstract sense, because everyone is happy there are fewer poor Chinese, but you may not be as happy if these Chinese are taking your job.

The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.

Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.

If poor people knew how rich rich people are, there would be riots in the streets.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

And living in Australia I am relatively well off.

I think America has dealt with - I mean, this is simplistic, and of course I don't live in America - but the impression I get is that there is not a kind of obligation to dislike those who are better off or be frightened of those who are worse off.

Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

The goatherds were the poorest people of Spain. Probably, they were the richest.

We are regarded as a Third World country with First World living conditions.

President Obama's version of America is a divided one - pitting us against each other based on our income level, gender, and social status. His policies have failed! We are not better off than we were 4 years ago, and no rhetoric, bumper sticker, or campaign ad can change that.

Never forget that there are rich people in poor countries and poor people in rich countries.

The poor generally follow behavior patterns established by the rich.

We face the prospect of the economically rich getting genetically richer.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

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

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

Most Americans seem to be stuck in the economic strata to which they were born.

What is called sound economics is very often what mirrors the needs of the respectably affluent.

The one think I hate about rich people, is that they really think that they work harder than poor people.

Poor people don’t make campaign contributions.