Economic inequality Quote by Chrystia Freeland

“One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people…

— Jay-Z

“All around us we see a level of individual wealth unequaled since the early years of the 20th century.”

— Tony Judt

“The wider the spread between the wealthy few and the impoverished many, the worse the social problems: a statement which appears to be true…

— Tony Judt

“The more I thought about it, the more I realized that the measure of a country isn't in how its richest citizens fare, but…

— Abigail Reynolds

“What matters is not how affluent a country is but how unequal it is.”

— Tony Judt

“Both were aware that wealth is a relative thing, and that the positively rich are not those who have the largest possessions but those…

— Susan Ferrier

“There’s no correlation between wealth and happiness. Absolutely none. It’s one of society’s biggest lies.”

— Andrew Peterson

In the best days of our republic Americans were fiercely proud of the fact that rich and poor met on such equal terms in…

— Anonymous

“In America, the rich man tries to pretend that the poor man is his equal in every respect but money, which is simply not…

— Donna Tartt

Income inequality has become so prevalent in the U.S. that examples of its negative impact on the middle class are as common as Kanye…

— Ana Kasparian

“The gap between rich and poor was not just one of wealth but of accountability.”

— Christopher Fowler

“The great hatred of capitalism in the hearts of the oppressed, ancient and modern, I think, stems not merely from the ensuing vast inequality…

— Victor Davis Hanson