David Sedaris Quotes

The "have nots" outnumber the "haves." No wonder the ruling class of every country grows more and more alarmed.

… in the old days there were one thousand castes and destinies in India. These days, there are just two castes: Men with Big Bellies and Men with Small Bellies. And only two destinies: eat – or get eaten up

The way corporate media likes to portray America is as a homogenous whole that high-five's each other at the Super Bowl. But what we have is a grotesque disparity between the rich and poor that is only getting wider.

People talk about places like Mumbai as a tale of two cities, as if the rich and poor don't have anything to do with each other.

If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it.

Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.

The messenger matters. When people of modest means complain about inequality, it usually gets written off as class warfare, but when billionaires complain, the problem is redefined.

Elites always tell poor people, “Work hard and play by the rules.”

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

Poor men's words have little weight.

There are but two families in the world … The haves and the have-nots.

Of the 1 Percent. By the 1 Percent. For the 1 Percent.

Everybody wants to talk about black and white, when the situation is really about rich people against poor people.

Some members of the ruling class are making a concerted effort to expand the wealth gap.

It's a bit of a cliche but throughout London, even in places like Notting Hill, you'll see utter luxury alongside council flats - it shows the tapestry of life and I adore that.

The rise of Donald Trump has exposed a deep chasm in America between the haves and have-nots.

The reversion of American society to a nation of the superrich and the rest... is straining the country in ways that go way beyond economics.

Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.

When I am in the city I have the impression that I am in a living room with crystal chandeliers, rugs of velvet, and satin cushions. And when I'm in the favela I have the impression that I'm a useless object, destined to be forever in a garbage dump.

Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.

They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

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.

If everybody lives in the same way, there's something almost narcotizing about it, but the true misery of economic class difference is knowing that you can't have what somebody else does.