Mardy Grothe Quotes

one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

There’s just too much money in the hands of too few.

It's actually sad to be rich.

The United States is the richest and also the most unequal country in the world.

They talk about class warfare -- the fact of the matter is there has been class warfare for the last thirty years. It's a handful of billionaires taking on the entire middle-class and working-class of this country. And the result is you now have in America the most unequal distribution of wealth and income of any major country on Earth and the worst inequality in America since 1928. How could anybody defend the top 400 richest people in this country owning more wealth than the bottom half of America, 150 million people?

An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many.

Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.

The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider.

Inequalities of wealth lead to a dispersion in wealth for all.

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 you can't have what somebody else does.

American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.

I don't like gross monetary inequities. I firmly believe that the wrong people and the wrong professions are being rewarded, and rewarded absurdly, and that the hardest work the obscenely rich do is ensuring that they preserve their privileges, status symbols, and bloated bank accounts.

There seems to be a happy concurrence of causes in human affairs, which checks the growth of trade and riches, and hinders them from being confined entirely to one people.

We have about 50% of the world’s wealth, but only 6.3% of its population. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity.

Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.

Income inequality is the central problem all the way across the world.

Today, half of the national income goes to the richest 10 percent. In 2007, the top 1 percent controlled 34.6 percent of the wealth—significantly more than the bottom 90 percent who control just 26.9 percent.

The greatest issue before the people—the question of special privilege and unequal distribution of wealth.

Liberty is impossible if 36 thousand families at the top of the economic pyramid get as much income as 12 million families at the bottom.

No man should be made poor so another man can be made rich.

No matter how we name and dissect inequality, we must keep explaining the larger downside of such concentrated extreme wealth.

Israel's middle class is paying for those below it, and that's fine, but also for those who are above it, and that's very wrong.

The extent of and continuing increase in inequality in the United States greatly concern me.

I've always been less interested in the person on the top of the Bellagio than I am at the person whose house got moved to create the Bellagio.

But avarice and ambition in the rich, in the poor the hatred of labour and the love of present ease and enjoyment, are the passions which prompt to invade property, passions much more steady in their operation, and much more universal in their influence. Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many.