Disparity of Wealth Quotes

The poor peasant here hives under conditions quite different from those of Russia. Though often terrible, they are not as appalling as they were there.

There's a very small percentage of people that take limos to school and have $2000 handbags - no one in my high school had that!

The rich - they just live in another realm, really.

Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

Today’s super-rich are increasingly a nation unto themselves

China has a bigger middle class than the entire population of Europe.

When I was young, poverty was so common that it didn’t have a name.

One problem with globalisation is that bad ideas seem to travel faster than good ones; first there was smearing tomato ketchup on everything; then drinking sugar-soaked cocktails ('Cosmo'-politanism) instead of our traditional whisky soda, and now this idea that we should abandon the poor to their fate in order to protect their dignity.

The workers, whose grievances were once the driving energy for social change, are more satisfied with society than the intellectuals. The workers have not achieved Utopia but their expectations were less than those of the intellectuals, and the gains correspondingly larger.

Poverty is sexist.

As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss.

…an enormous Proportion of Property vested in a few individuals is dangerous to the Rights, and destructive of the Common Happiness of Mankind…

Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are provided to keep all men from a necessity either to beg, or steal, or be Souldiers.

Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company. The message is that all brilliance emanates from the top; that the worker on the floor of the store or the factory is insignificant.

There's nothing like white trash at the White House.

The possessions of the rich are stolen property.

The middle class has disappeared. We have a highway to poverty and no roads coming out.

There's a glee in building a world that is constructed on corporate synergy and all the luxuries of our modern life, and then just tearing it apart. I enjoy that!

Credit expansion and money printing hasn't filtered much to ordinary people. It's boosted asset markets, real estate and stocks. So well-to-do-people have done very well.

Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.

Some people, such as the unemployed coal miners and steelworkers of the Rust Belt, have been left behind by growing prosperity.

On a macro level, four billion people on Earth make less than four dollars a day.

Parallel to our vast strides in technology, there is a dangerous rise in unemployment, foreclosures, and degrading education. Millions of people are stricken with hopelessness and strife. Sadly, in the name of progress we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.

Poverty is often off the beaten track. It always has been.

The misfortunes of people are what economists dismiss as anecdotal evidence.