Richard Dawkins Quotes

We are at great risk in our democracy for failing to understand the great depths of poverty.

In the developed world, income inequality within the country is the most important determinant of health standards and life expectancy.

The trajectory of this country [USA] is not positive and particularly for the disadvantaged, as we see what's happening. The gains in productivity have dropped, the gains in income for the middle class and the least advantaged have slowed, at best.

Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.

1% of the population has all the money and the other 99% have nothing.

I think greed is a critical problem - the gap between the poor and the rich. The gap between the top 10 percent and the bottom 10 percent.

Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population.

I do not believe in widening the income gap between rich and poor, and my life's work in the inner city of Detroit demonstrates that far more than any sound bite.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

The goatherds were the poorest people of Spain. Probably, they were the richest.

In middle-income countries, inequality becomes a problem because you can see there is a layer of people who are doing well, while the poor are still stuck there.

The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.

The gap between rich and poor is widening dramatically. There's a hangar at the Cairo airport for private jets, billionaires are on the Forbes list, and Egypt's annual per-capita income is two thousand dollars. How can you sustain that?

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

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

The poor generally follow behavior patterns established by the rich.

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

The working poor is a growing population in this country.

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.