Crisis Quote by Frans Timmermans

While a few poor countries are catching up with the rich world, the differences between the richest and poorest individuals around the globe are…

— Zygmunt Bauman

The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and…

— Helene D. Gayle

Yes, over the centuries economic progress has reduced some gross disparities - modern Americans are relatively unlikely to simply starve to death (though it…

— Paul Krugman

In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.

— Ferdinand Mount

There are more differences between poor people than between middle-class people.

— Rita Mae Brown

Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who were richer.

— Margaret Drabble

The fact is that, except for those very few whose wealth is overwhelmingly or entirely inherited, the more affluent have usually worked harder than…

— Dennis Prager

Income is now more concentrated in the hands of the rich. Those well-off households tend to save and invest higher proportions of their earnings…

— Annie Lowrey

The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.

— Richard Rogers

There is a considerable polarization taking place here, increasing the gap between rich and poor. It's most dramatic in Third World countries, of course,…

— Noam Chomsky

The differences in income between the poor world and the rich world are so great that people have to be interested.

— Esther Duflo

Unfortunately, in a recession, the people who suffer the most aren't the rich, but the wanna-be rich and the poor.

— Robert Kiyosaki