Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

The rich are few everywhere, the poor many.

I'm tired of people on trust funds telling people on food stamps how to live.

The burning issue of our time is the growing inequality in income and wealth in our country.

Everybody wants to talk about black and white, when the situation is really about rich people against poor people.

Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.

Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.

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

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life.

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.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

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.

I don't want there to be this separation between the rich and poor. I may be part of the three percent because I've been fortunate and done well for myself, but I will never forget about the 97 percent. That was me growing up. I was so poor I dreamt about being just 'regular poor,' not 'poor, poor.'

The issue of wealth inequality is ... the great moral issue of our time.

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.

Republicans look after the rich, and Democrats focus on the needs of the middle class. Neither of them looks after the poor.

The poor generally follow behavior patterns established by the rich.

We are undemocratic, then, in our religion, as is proved by our efforts to “raise” the poor.

Economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege

The wall between rich and poor is a wall of glass which all can see.

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.

There are but two families in the world … The haves and the have-nots.

... popular art has no chance of a healthy life, or, indeed, of a life at all, till we are on the way to fill up this terrible gulf between riches and poverty.