Holbrook Jackson Quotes

I don't think that the rich should be attacked. There's nothing wrong in being rich.

It's quite confusing being one of the less wealthy people at a posh place.

The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.

In every country, and under every government, particular men may be too rich.

What is called sound economics is very often what mirrors the needs of the respectably affluent.

There aren't any poor cable hosts.

The second reason why we haven't observed the growing gap is that our historical and social science analyses have concentrated on what has been happening within the 'middle classes' - that is, to that ten to fifteen percent of the population of the world-economy who consumed more surplus than they themselves produced. Within this sector there really has been a relatively dramatic flattening of the curve between the very top (less than one percent of the total population) and the truly 'middle' segments, or cadres (the rest of the ten to fifteen percent).

I identify with the bottom of the pyramid, because, outside of having money, I am at the bottom of the pyramid.

The interesting thing about class warfare is that it's only class warfare if it's up, not down. If you talk about welfare cheats or something, that's not class warfare because it's down; you have to talk about rich people before it's class warfare.

Class is a way of looking at society that divides people into different categories based on how much money they're willing to make.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.

Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality.

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

When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

In 1750, 75 percent of people on the planet worked to support the top 25 percent.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

The rich - they just live in another realm, really.

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

If class warfare is being waged in America, my class is clearly winning.

No one should have more than five times the wealth of the poorest person.