Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes

The issue of wealth inequality is ... the great moral issue of our time.

The burning issue of our time is the growing inequality in income and wealth in our country.

A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much and so many have so little.

I think the stress on income inequality is something that every American should take seriously.

Contrary to age-old prejudices, the wealth of the rich is not the cause of the poverty of the poor, but helps to alleviate that poverty.

Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.

There are huge divorces and divides and chasms in black America between the have-gots and the have-nots, between the monied and the poor, between the educated and the non-educated. And there are huge and growing chasms daily. And I want to say that it's not simply about generation. It's about genre.

I'm interested in illuminating the enormous disparity between vast poverty and the tiny upper class... This vast inequity is unfair by definition, and I am interested in illuminating that and, where possible, changing that.

An imbalance between the rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

There are only two families in the whole world, my old grandmother used to say, The Haves and the Have-Nots.

Society is composed of two great classes-those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

Poverty divide not only nations but societies within nations.

There are no great lords who possess everything and a herd of people who have nothing

For the good of Spain, I should like there to be rather fewer rich people and rather fewer poor.

There are but two families in the world … The haves and the have-nots.

... popular art has no chance of a healthy life, or, indeed, of a life at all, till we are on the way to fill up this terrible gulf between riches and poverty.

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

Inequality of income is bad for everyone, not just the poor and the middle class.

To be concerned about inequality is not engaging in class warfare.

I do think that there is both a very powerful sense of entitlement and a kind of bubble of wealth which makes it hard for the people at the very top to understand the travails of the middle class.

The French don't think everyone should have the same bank balance, but they're offended by extremes of inequality.

In America, the 1 percent and the 10 percent are doing just fine, but the people who are bearing the brunt of this economy are the ones who suffer.

The gap between the rich and the poor cannot keep growing without nothing being done about it.

The interesting thing about class warfare is that it's only class warfare if it's up, not down. If you talk about welfare cheats or something, that's not class warfare because it's down; you have to talk about rich people before it's class warfare.

Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.