Across Quote by James Gray

If everybody lives in the same way, there's something almost narcotizing about it, but the true misery of economic class difference is knowing that…

— James Gray

The working class has been turned into a consuming class - a situation has been created where people value their worth by what they…

— Jarvis Cocker

Everything in America is so stratified by class now. We have the 93rd level of income inequality in the world. You're already seeing highway…

— Adam McKay

There is a paradox at the heart of our lives. Most people want more income and strive for it. Yet as Western societies have…

— Richard Layard, Baron Layard

Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

— George Bernard Shaw

“Money may not buy happiness, but it buys a hell of a lot of distraction from unhappiness”

— Kim Izzo

“The incremental value of wealth declines as we become richer. Yet people keep on accumulating it. They think that more is better. Hence, when…

— Awdhesh Singh

In prosperous times the mercantile classes often realize fortunes, which go far towards securing them against the future; but unfortunately the working classes, though…

— Thomas Malthus

Ironically, for the mega-rich, recession brings with it the ability to live well at a lower cost and with less of a hassle.

— Jamie Johnson

People who lack material wealth, who are poor, won't be very happy. They will be obsessed with meeting their bills at pay day. And…

— Philip Kotler

The economic class struggle is a struggle against inessanlty intensified exploitation: not only against the brutal material form of exploitation, capitalism's tendency to reduce…

— Louis Althusser

Money and one of its embodiments, social class, are both riveting and mysterious to children. And if we don't challenge today's stigma around class…

— Alissa Quart