Quotes About Rich Getting Richer

#1. I'm still a communist in the sense that I don't believe the world will survive with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer - I think that the pressures will get so tremendous that the social contract will just come apart.

Pete Seeger

#2. I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.

Dannel Malloy

#3. Those who are rich cannot see reasons for poor becoming poorer and those who are poor cannot see reasons for rich getting richer.

Santosh Kalwar

#4. The average citizen expresses pride in the American Bill of Rights and then seeks to protect his real estate by restrictive covenants.

Harry Allen Overstreet

#5. That's what children are for - that their parents may not be bored.

Ivan Turgenev

#6. The problem is that rich are getting richer by not giving and poor and getting poorer by not receiving.

Santosh Kalwar

#7. A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity.

David Lynch

#8. There has been a noticeable decline in the labor factor in all wealthy countries in the past 20 years. The rich are getting richer, but those at the lower end aren't moving ahead as quickly as the capitalists.

Kenneth Rogoff

#9. The rich were getting richer, the poor were getting poorer, small farmers were being squeezed out, workingmen were working twelve hours a day for a bare living; profits were for the rich, the law was for the rich, the cops were for the rich;

John Dos Passos

#10. People getting rich in a free society in general - with some scammy exceptions, which are rare - makes everyone else richer, too.

Ben Stein

#11. Here's one truth that perhaps your typical investment counselor would disagree with: if you're comfortably rich and someone else is getting richer faster than you by, for example, investing in risky stocks, so what?! Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.

Charlie Munger

#12. The term 'income inequality' is a bit misleading because it suggests in a somewhat pejorative way that the rich are getting richer at the expense of the poor,

Edward Lazear

#13. I don't mind what you call yourself, so long as your heart is being true to you.

Jay Woodman

#14. You should know this about the rich: they always want to get richer. It is never boring, getting your hands on more money. When

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#15. I think that fear does come into it in some respect in the sense of when I lost my temper I didn't hide behind a bush on it in respect to the times that I did lose my temper. But you know the quality that I had when I lost my temper, I never, ever brought it back again.

Alex Ferguson

#16. There's some folks who don't eat like us," she whispered fiercely, "but you ain't called on to contradict 'em at the table when they don't. That boy's yo' comp'ny and if he wants to eat up the table cloth you let him, you hear?

Harper Lee

#17. Pain is nature's way of telling you to slow down. Death is nature's way of telling you to stop.

Jim Fixx

#18. One of the rules of the sane world ... the poor keep getting poorer, and the rich keep getting ... richer.

Cameron Jace

#19. If your opponent dives on you, do not try to evade his onslaught, but fly to meet it.

Oswald Boelcke

#20. But one of them has to do with the sense of, the sense of capturing, capturing what the world feels like to us, in the sort of way that I think that a reader can tell Another sensibility like mine exists.

David Lipsky

#21. Thomas Piketty assembles the facts to prove a central point about trickle-down economics: Doesn't work. Never did. He has cold, hard data showing how the rich keep getting richer and how the playing field is rigged against working families.

Elizabeth Warren

#22. 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 higher percentage of money or wealth that's out there.

Hill Harper

#23. There is a movement in club football, which I don't necessarily consider a prime example of solidarity, because it leads us to conclude the rich are getting richer and they are using everything in the market to create an exodus from Africa.

Sepp Blatter