George MacDonald Quotes

Billions of people are being left behind by economic growth.

We live in a very unequal society.

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

It is clear that the economy has not gotten better for everyone.

Today in Ukraine, many people struggle to survive, older ones often see the breakdown of the Soviet system as a loss of stability and security for average people, and therefore a certain hostility to quickly acquired wealth is from their point of view quite understandable at the first look.

As the middle class is predated upon with an ever greater malicious intensity, their children stand to lose more and harder than their parents ever did.

There are two Americas - separate, unequal, and no longer even acknowledging each other except on the barest cultural terms. In the one nation, new millionaires are minted every day. In the other, human beings no longer necessary to our economy, to our society, are being devalued and destroyed.

The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder.

Poverty divide not only nations but societies within nations.

... 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.

These institutions are generally more skilled at getting rich off those living in the lower economic reaches than they are in preparing them for the job market.

Wild globalization has helped some people much, but has hurt most.

While we have created prosperity for many, too many are being left behind.

Economic inequality is systemic, and one of the most effective barriers is ignorance about how money works beyond the basics.

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

The biggest problem in America is most people believe poor people are poor because they are lazy.

I have worked out that I am living in London on £27 a day while David Cameron is claiming a damn sight more for his big house in Oxford.

Around the world, our cities are not the idealised open, accessible, and cosmopolitan spaces of our dreams. More often than not, they are sectioned and controlled purviews of the radically wealthy, surrounded by clusters of have-nots.

If you don't have money or you come from a background that doesn't have money, it's harder to achieve your ambition in life. It's not that you can't, but it becomes harder. Inequality is one of the worst things that can exist in our society, so I am interested in those kind of things.

I don't think I could write a good play if I was setting out to write about the death of the American middle class.

The profound lack of economic opportunity for those left behind by globalization has created an ever-widening gap between the 'haves' and the 'have nots.'

I think there are many people on £70,000 who may well feel that their circumstances are such that they are not rich.

We need to recognize that it is growing economic inequality that creates the conditions for hate to fester.

Politicians have patronised and talked down to us all when it comes to our economy, but ordinary working people have to manage on incomes significantly lower than the likes of George Osborne and his friends in the City. They could teach the bankers and many commentators a thing or two about managing a budget responsibly.