The Rich Keep Getting Richer Quotes

#1. 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

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

Cameron Jace

#3. It was 1981. I was working on a novel. And I put that novel aside one day after I read a newspaper article. The story said there were 19 women still on the pension payroll who were Confederate war widows. They were women who very early in their lives had married very old men.

Allan Gurganus

#4. During these times of indecision when all the old answers are proven false, the people look back to the dead to give them a clue, they call first upon one and then upon another of those who have acted in the past.

Ralph Ellison

#5. I like to be as diverse as possible. I think the humorous side and the serious side are both elements of my personality. It's what makes me who I am and if I was to neglect either one of those sides and just focus on one of them, it wouldn't be the full spectrum of my personality.

Macklemore

#6. The Western world is having an identity crisis.

Marianne Williamson

#7. To have the same likes and dislikes, therein consists the firmest bond of friendship.

Sallust

#8. I'd like to take you to dinner tonight."
Oh." I say, surprise. "Um, I -"
"Evie, it's a yes or yes question.

Mia Sheridan

#9. A friend of mine described it this way: When they were born it was like a meteor landed in our house and blew everything apart. We had to just put all the pieces back.

Christine Lahti

#10. I am pretty sure that all young human beings have, at one time or another in their growing-up, been actors. They have used their imaginations to carry them away from painful or confusing situations ... have imagined themselves to be more powerful or beautiful or brave or loving than they are.

Tyne Daly

#11. Every person receives two educations in life; one they receive from others, and; more importantly, the one they give themselves.

Charles MacAlister

#12. The idea of a talent that was bigger than an artist's ability to choose to use it, that would dictate the artist's life more than the artist could dictate, was interesting to me.

Alexander Chee

#13. Every Communist working in the mass movements should be a friend of the masses and not a boss over them, an indefatigable teacher and not a bureaucratic politician.

Mao Zedong