Alissa Quart Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

This country is very good at creating wealth, but not very good at distributing it.

… perceptions of poverty have gone up because there’s been rising inequality.

Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality.

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

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

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.

Our family's fortune is growing faster than ever. We're a part of a small number of American families that own most of the country's wealth. But having so much in the hands of so few can't be good for America.

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.

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.

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

No one should have more than five times the wealth of the poorest person.

It is the unvarying law that the wealth of the community will be in the hands of the few ...

Hunger, the inseparable companion of the poor, is the offspring of the unequal distribution of the wealth and the injustices in this world. The rich do not know hunger.

Economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege

…well-ordered republics have to keep the public rich and their citizens poor…

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.

I don't think that the rich should be attacked. There's nothing wrong in being rich.

Globalization in the aggregate generates wealth, no question. But it gets concentrated.

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

By 2015, the top 1 percent of families took home more than 20 percent of income. Wealth distribution was 10 times worse than that: the families in the top 1 percent owned as much as the families in the bottom 90 percent.