Angus Deaton Quotes

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

Greater inequality in Europe has made people less happy.

I'm interested in illuminating the enormous disparity between vast poverty and the tiny upper class... This vast inequity is unfair by definition, and I am interested in illuminating that and, where possible, changing that.

There is an increase in inequality in the early stages of development.

Income inequality is the central problem all the way across the world.

Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as a child. It's something I've revisited a few times in my writings.

China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.

If everybody lives in the same way, there's something almost narcotizing about it, but the true misery of economic class difference is knowing that you can't have what somebody else does.

The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.

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

The prime culprit in causing contemporary social inequality seems to be merit.

The association of poverty with progress is the enigma of our times.

Poverty divide not only nations but societies within nations.

Unequal wealth distribution is a risk factor for inequality that must be attacked by policies.

History shows that when you have continuing income inequality it is an invitation to class conflict.

…of all the causes of seditions and changes in the Republic, there is none greater than the excessive wealth of a few subjects, and the extreme poverty of the majority.

… perceptions of poverty have gone up because there’s been rising inequality.

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

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

Freedom breeds inequality.

I don't believe that killing the French model in order to become the U.K. or the United States overnight is the solution. You have a big debate on inequality there, and for our society, a lot of inequality would not be bearable.

We are dealing with the greater challenges of globalisation. It is generating, in many cases, an increase in the levels of inequality in societies... that is undesirable.

If the U.S. is the richest country in the world, why is it also the most unequal?

The world is not equal, unfortunately.

Why do some people have to go barefoot so that others can drive luxury cars? Why are some people able to live only 35 years in order that others can live 70 years? Why do some people have to be miserably poor in order that others can be extravagantly rich? I speak for all the children in the world who don't even have a piece of bread.