Country Quote by Noam Chomsky

The world is polarized. The middle class becomes smaller. The polarization makes the difference between rich and the poor big. This is true.

— Pope Francis

The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.

— Richard Rogers

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

There's a wealth gap that is happening, and that is all over the world, you know? The rich are getting richer and holding a…

— Hill Harper

I think the gap between rich and poor is an extremely dangerous phenomenon and needs the immediate attention of the state.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

I grew up in Northern Ireland, in the middle of nowhere, and when you are poor, you are really poor. And when you are…

— Jonathan Anderson

Severe poverty is getting better by some measures, but it's also becoming ever more scandalous because it is now so easily avoidable.

— Thomas Pogge

The rich are becoming richer, and the gap between the rich and the poor is getting bigger.

— Uwe Reinhardt

This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always…

— Susan George

The gap between rich and poor is, in fact, widening enormously. This idea of building up the powers of people who are already powerful…

— Robert Wyatt

If you look at European societies since the financial crisis began in 2008, with very, very few exceptions, the differences between rich and poor…

— Frans Timmermans