Martha Gellhorn Quotes

The rich are few everywhere, the poor many.

All public resources go to the rich. The poor, if they can survive in the labor market, fine. Otherwise, they die. That's economics in a nutshell.

There were but two families in the world, Have-much and Have-little.

The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.

I am never rich in money, and I am never meanly poor.

The inequality between the world's individuals is staggering.

The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share.

The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider.

One of the biggest challenges facing the globe is the gap that exists in the wealth and standards of living enjoyed by the world's nations.

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

What does peace mean in a world in which the combined wealth of the world's 587 billionaires exceeds the combined gross domestic product of the world's 135 poorest countries?

No man should be made poor so another man can be made rich.

When the World Economic Forum was established in 1971, the global population was four billion, of which 50% lived in poverty.

I think in the last thirty years, the rich have gotten richer and the poor have gotten poorer. It is not something that you can see with rose-colored glasses.

Obama's economic policies widened the gap between the rich and the poor.

You have to be very poor and desperate, or very rich, or lucky, to live in Islington. We don't have the people in the middle, the people who serve the community.

The poor have little; beggars, none; the rich, too much; enough, not one.

Poor people know poor people, and rich people know rich people. It is one of the few things La Rochefoucauld did not say, but then La Rochefoucauld never lived in the Bronx.

Poverty is not natural; it is man-made

The rich have grown richer, but their tax rate has declined. The poor have grown poorer, but their taxes have increased.

Globalization is a form of totalitarianism... It is the rich who rule, and the poor live as they can.

I was at the World Bank and a commission reviewed our work on inequality for the U.S. Congress or somebody, and the head of the commission said to us: "You are spending taxpayer money to study issues like inequality? Which goes directly against capitalism and growth." That was the perception, that it should not be studied.

The poor live slow and hard; the rich, fast and easy. The rest of us shuffle along as we may.

It is staggering that in the 21st century, half of the world's population - that's three and a half billion people - own no more than a tiny elite whose numbers could all fit comfortably on a double-decker bus.

It's easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.