Roger Rosenblatt Quotes

The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

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

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

If you are a rich person straining every sinew to keep every last pound in your pocket, there comes a point when you realize you are not just escaping the clutches of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. You are passing a greater burden on to people poorer than yourself, and depriving even poorer people of your support.

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

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

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

Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The more millionaires, the more paupers

Republicans look after the rich, and Democrats focus on the needs of the middle class. Neither of them looks after the poor.

The rich are few everywhere, the poor many.

Hunger, the inseparable companion of the poor, is the offspring of the unequal distribution of the wealth and the injustices in this world. The rich do not know hunger.

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones or inhabitants of different planets ... the rich and the poor.

All down history, nine-tenths of mankind have been grinding corn for the remaining one-tenth, been paid with the husks, and bidden to thank God they had the husks.

The wall between rich and poor is a wall of glass which all can see.

In the United States you have socialism for the rich and free markets for the poor.

... the wrong and evils of the money-piling tendency of our country ... giving all power to the rich and bringing in pauperism.

The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.

This country is very good at creating wealth, but not very good at distributing it.

The possession of wealth does not confer upon the wealthy the right to take advantage of the less fortunate.

One thing that's consistent in all of my work is that these aren't accidents; they're all conscious landscapes. They're all things that we're doing and that we have done through our legal and social systems and structures of capitalism.

If all we've got is the dirt poor and the filthy rich, the dirt poor would eat the filthy rich.

I grew up in Northern Ireland, in the middle of nowhere, and when you are poor, you are really poor. And when you are rich, you are very rich. This is not a new phenomenon.

The inequality of income and fortunes is essential in capitalism.

I see no present solution of a great and intricate problem but that the rich should realize their duty to the poor.