Nigel Farage Quotes

Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.

Europe has to avoid old prejudices and new ones. That means north versus south, rich versus poor.

Nigeria is like everywhere, really: there are some beautiful places that have been invested in and others that haven't been.

Inequality is now determined more about where you live than the class you belong to.

That certain groups do much better in America than others—as measured by income, occupational status, test scores and so on – is difficult to talk about.

The fact of the matter is the Arab elites are more inclined to accommodate our wishes because of certain overlapping interests that are often financial. That is not the case with the Arab masses.

Going to Cambridge was a bit of a culture shock, I was a working class lass from Batley who hadn't been anywhere apart from the odd holiday on the Costa Del Sol.

You go to Europe, and they have their very wealthy elites, and then everybody else is, you know, a couple of steps above a peasant, basically.

There are two Baltimores. There are clearly two Baltimores.

One of the most interesting social trends of the past 20 years is the rise of residential segregation. So rich are living with rich and poor are living with poor.

Income inequality is one thing, but a permanent division into the haves and have-nots is an entirely different thing - and much less acceptable.

The privileged elites are part of the globalization moment that we live in.

It wasn't until sixth grade, at P.S. 168, when my teacher took us on a field trip to her house that I realized we were poor. I have no idea what my teacher's intentions were - whether she was trying to inspire us or if she actually thought visiting her Manhattan brownstone with her view of Central Park qualified as a school trip.

You can only choose between rich and poor. The middle class is gone.

Poverty was a relationship, I thought, involving poor and rich people alike.

It is easy to say that there are the rich and the poor, and so something should be done. But in history, there are always the rich and the poor. If the poor were not as poor, we would still call them the poor. I mean, whoever has less can be called the poor. You will always have the 10% that have less and the 10% that have the most.

When I ascended from the depths of the working class to the middle class, the higher I got, the more dishonesty I found.

My greatest fear about a world in which racial reassignment surgery becomes common is that it then becomes an expression of all kinds of class privilege. You have a truly dystopian society divided between the people who can afford to be racially altered and perfected and the ones who can't.

There aren't any poor cable hosts.

I'm not going to do class warfare; I want to be wealthy.

If only the majority of the wealthiest top 10 percent of Americans own stock directly - which does not include pension and retirement accounts - then the divide between rich and poor is likely to expand.

The world belongs to the wealthy, and nowhere is this injustice more apparent than in the workplace.

In every society, manufacturing builds the lower middle class. If you give up manufacturing, you end up with haves and have-nots, and you get social polarization. The whole lower middle class sinks.

In India, the concentration of wealth is in a few hands.

The sharp differences between the way city dwellers and rural, suburban and exurban residents vote, think and live cannot be papered over by federal laws, federal rules or, clearly, by a president.