Charles Murray Quotes

It's true: one of the things that I've always thought about American society is that you never get the sort of natural politicisation of class consciousness that you would get in the United Kingdom or even in Australia.

Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as a child. It's something I've revisited a few times in my writings.

When inequality gets too extreme, then it becomes useless for growth, and it can even become bad because it tends to lead to high perpetuation of inequality over time and low mobility.

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

In a city like New York, you're aware of the rich and poor.

If you have extremes of haves and have-nots where the gap keeps growing, the have-nots group together and create social disorder, as they can't see a way out of their situation.

We're running out of rich people in this country.

I think America has dealt with - I mean, this is simplistic, and of course I don't live in America - but the impression I get is that there is not a kind of obligation to dislike those who are better off or be frightened of those who are worse off.

I mean, we are tribal by nature, and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate - it's not a new philosophy I'm sharing - more than hardship, hardship tends to unify.

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

And understand: class differences will not save you.

In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.

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

In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence.

Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling.

The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.

Italy is divided between us and them, rich and poor, north and south, young and old, employed and unemployed.

I think people are always going to be fascinated about the haves and have nots - about the divide between the servants and the rich families upstairs.

I'm interested in illuminating the enormous disparity between vast poverty and the tiny upper class... This vast inequity is unfair by definition, and I am interested in illuminating that and, where possible, changing that.

In England we only make films about the working class or the aristocracy.

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

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

The association of poverty with progress is the enigma of our times.