Noam Chomsky Quotes

Everyday people are graduating from universities with crippling debt, stifling their opportunity for financial mobility, that is what's broken with this country.

Unfair servicing practices can worsen a family's already difficult economic situation, and the injury echoes from the family to the community and ultimately throughout the economy.

Those of us who have been economically successful cannot forget those who have not.

Put all other sufferings on one side of the scale, and poverty on the other, and poverty would be heavier.

What we shouldn't be doing is borrowing money to give benefits to the most fortunate, to put the burden and pull the rug out of those who struggle the most.

Poverty was a relationship, I thought, involving poor and rich people alike.

It is morally wrong for this country to require our citizens to take on tens of thousands of dollars of debt to achieve the American Dream.

People internalize, from the jail to student loan debt, to credit card debt, to unemployment to the whole collective. It manifests itself in many ways, in people's home lives, domestic stuff.

You and I can be busy, and we take a vacation from work. You can't take a break from being poor. You can't say, 'Hey I've had enough of worrying about money, I'm just going to be rich for a couple of weeks until I've recovered.'

Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

The middle and working classes are paying the debt that the financial markets created.

When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can't afford it.

It is a sin to be poor.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Poverty affects people of all races.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

We are watching the beginnings of the defiant self-assertion of a new generation of Americans, a generation who are looking forward to finishing their education with no jobs, no future, but still saddled with enormous and unforgivable debt.

Usury once in control will wreck the nation.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

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

If you can capture the humanity of a family struggling in an economic crisis you can make a difference. You can raise awareness just of the simple humanity.

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.