Walter Savage Landor Quotes

A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much and so many have so little.

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.

There’s just too much money in the hands of too few.

Income inequality is the central problem all the way across the world.

Inequality of income is bad for everyone, not just the poor and the middle class.

… perceptions of poverty have gone up because there’s been rising inequality.

But avarice and ambition in the rich, in the poor the hatred of labour and the love of present ease and enjoyment, are the passions which prompt to invade property, passions much more steady in their operation, and much more universal in their influence. Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many.

It is staggering that in the 21st century, half of the world's population - that's three and a half billion people - own no more than a tiny elite whose numbers could all fit comfortably on a double-decker bus.

American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

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

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.

Unequal wealth distribution is a risk factor for inequality that must be attacked by policies.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

If, in a country, the wealth is concentrated in the hands of only the few, it cannot witness harmony and stability.

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

Inequality is bad for everyone, not just the middle class and the poor.

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

The greatest issue before the people—the question of special privilege and unequal distribution of wealth.

The United States has the highest poverty rate [and] the greatest … wealth inequality of any major developed economy in the world…. No other developed country is as addicted to poverty and inequality as we are, and yet somehow they prosper.

Liberty is impossible if 36 thousand families at the top of the economic pyramid get as much income as 12 million families at the bottom.

No matter how we name and dissect inequality, we must keep explaining the larger downside of such concentrated extreme wealth.

The United States is the richest and also the most unequal country in the world.

What good is a high GDP if some, or even many, Americans are left behind?

Wealth is used to entrench inequality, not to trickle down and solve it.