Benjamin H. Bagdikian Quotes

No one can say how long the process of human extinction might take, but as it proceeds, the same global order will prevail that always prevails: rich nations will find ways to protect themselves and make themselves comfortable, while the poor nations and the poor people of the planet will suffer.

We face a dilemma because although everybody is better off than they've ever been at any time in our history, we've also got the biggest gap between the rich and the poor that we've ever had, and we've potentially got a planet which is going to go bust any day.

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

There are no great lords who possess everything and a herd of people who have nothing

No society is healthy when the gap between the rich and the poor is growing.

The fact is that the rich are getting richer while the poor are being left behind. Women remain under-represented in boardrooms and under-engaged in the global workforce. Environmental change is leaving the poorest countries vulnerable. Voters are becoming more and more politically polarised and partisan.

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.

Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.

The biggest problem is that the rich people paying the bills do not share the same goals as the poor people they are trying to help. The wealthy have weak incentives to get the right amount of the right thing to those who need it; the poor are in no position to complain if they don’t.

The problems of the Third World—its poverty, its ignorance, its debt—never really seemed to affect Europeans and Americans. No longer. It's a little warmer than it used to be. The water is rising.

The bigger the gap there is between the rich and the poor, the less stable and successful the society will be

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

Trouble brews when we steal from the poor and give to the rich.

The rich rob the poor, and the poor rob one another.

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

What I worry about is the lack of understanding in society around the world that there is a divide in the world between those who have and those who do not.

The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.

In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.

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.

What I quickly discovered is that our so-called new South Africa has as much material for a story-teller as the old one. The landscape hasn't really changed. Who is in power now is different to who was in power then, but the squatter camps grow like cancer, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer.

The differences in income between the poor world and the rich world are so great that people have to be interested.

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

I'm concerned about - the oppression of the poor.

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.