Elaine Dundy Quotes

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.

We live in a world in which we're seeing an increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots.

The one think I hate about rich people, is that they really think that they work harder than poor people.

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

I am not biased against the rich because they are rich, but the most lively people are those without money who would like to have some

The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the poor. It does not even rest on the kindness of the rich to the poor. It rests on the perennial and unfailing kindness of the poor to the rich.

If poor people knew how rich rich people are, there would be riots in the streets.

Most middle-class Americans, even working-class Americans, encounter each other across racial lines all the time, but it gets really hard-core when you get into that witches' brew that is the combination of race and poverty.

There are rich people, and there are those who have money. They are not the same people.

Poor people have the blues because they're poor and hungry. Rich people can't sleep at night because they're trying to hold on to their money and everything they have.

The interesting thing about class warfare is that it's only class warfare if it's up, not down. If you talk about welfare cheats or something, that's not class warfare because it's down; you have to talk about rich people before it's class warfare.

Globalization looked like it was going to answer all the economic questions of class. Turned out not to be the case.

It may at first appear strange, but I believe it is true, that I cannot by means of money raise a poor man and enable him to live much better than he did before, without proportionably depressing others in the same class.

There never has yet existed a wealthy and civilized society in which one portion of the community did not, in point of fact, live on the labor of the other.

The rich get richer and the poor get - children.

War so conspicuously benefits rich men and kills the poor ones.

If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves.

One thin's sure and nothing's surer The rich get richer and the poor get - children. In the meantime, In between time...

In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.

I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations.

Ownership is not a general feature of our society, determining its character. On the contrary, dependence on a precarious wage at the will of others is the general feature of our society.

You need to look at inequality as a typical condition of modern society.

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

Since biblical times, and probably before, the wealthy have been envied and condemned.

The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can't cure, Which is a kind of trouble that is even more troublesome if you are poor.