Elizabeth Warren Quotes

I'm in that, I guess, top 2 percent or something.

The fact is that, except for those very few whose wealth is overwhelmingly or entirely inherited, the more affluent have usually worked harder than the less affluent.

Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.

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

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.

I don't remember going to school with anyone who had a Mercedes dealership.

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.

I think there's a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

There's always somebody older, richer, more desperate than you.

It's quite confusing being one of the less wealthy people at a posh place.

Class still matters in Britain today.

I love Romney. It is not his fault that he is the son of a successful governor and makes $20 million a year.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

There's a very small percentage of people that take limos to school and have $2000 handbags - no one in my high school had that!

And understand: class differences will not save you.

Language does not make one an elite.

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.

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

I'm tired of people on trust funds telling people on food stamps how to live.

People say law but they mean wealth.

You can have class in the ghetto and trash in the White House.

As income inequality increases, social mobility falls.

Like Venice’s oligarchs, America’s super-rich are destroying the social mobility that creates wealth.