Future Quote by Bill McKibben

The World Has Divided into Rich and Poor as at No Time in History

— Maude Barlow

If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable.

— Zong Qinghou

We live in a world where economic positions - income and wealth - are very unevenly distributed, and this leads to the widespread persistence…

— Thomas Pogge

The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it.

— Seneca the Younger

No one is kept in poverty by a shortness in the supply of riches, there is more than enough for all.

— Wallace D. Wattles

Today, the top one-tenth of 1% owns nearly as much wealth as the bottom 90%. The economic game is rigged, and this level of…

— Bernie Sanders

In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability…

— Will Durant

Every country has rich people. But only a few places have achieved a vibrant and stable middle class. And in the history of the…

— Marco Rubio

The wealthiest 300 people have greater riches than the three billion poorest. The three wealthiest people have greater riches than the 48 poorest countries…

— Tony Juniper

If in a country, most of the wealth is concentrated in the hands of the few, then this country can hardly witness harmony and…

— Wen Jiabao

In financial terms, my sense is that the distribution of wealth, unequal as it is, is self-perpetuating, and, especially in a linked and accelerating…

— Pico Iyer

There are poor societies which have too little; but where is the rich society that says: 'Halt! We have enough'? There is none.

— E. F. Schumacher