Noah Webster Quotes

If the poor ever feel poor as the rich do, we will have a most bloody revolution.

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

Social inequality … divides society into two classes -- the wage-slaves and the grabbers of capital

Poverty divide not only nations but societies within nations.

The middle class serves as a bridge between the haves and the have-nots. If it goes, so goes political stability.

History shows that when you have continuing income inequality it is an invitation to class conflict.

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.

Economic inequality is a corrosive force that undermines economic growth, puts a brake on the fight against poverty, and sparks social unrest.

We need to recognize that it is growing economic inequality that creates the conditions for hate to fester.

'Munmun' happened because the human world's dizzying inequality - of wealth and of power - had begun to send me over the edge, and I had to write something to try to help myself understand it a little better.

I think, unfortunately, we've always lived in a world of massive inequality: inequality between the haves and the have-nots, inequality between men and women that not only exists temporally but geographically as well.

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

The economy is rigged in favor of those at the top.

When I was poor and I complained about inequality they said I was bitter. Now I'm rich and I complain about inequality they say I'm a hypocrite. I'm starting to think they just don't want to talk about inequality.

The gap between rich and poor is, in fact, widening enormously. This idea of building up the powers of people who are already powerful and keeping everyone else back is a recipe for endless misery and conflict.

It's class warfare, my class is winning, but they shouldn't be.

The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed.

This country's going to have a revolution if something doesn't happen the haves and have - nots.

Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror.

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

The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.

If you have extremes of haves and have-nots where the gap keeps growing, the have-nots group together and create social disorder, as they can't see a way out of their situation.

The way corporate media likes to portray America is as a homogenous whole that high-five's each other at the Super Bowl. But what we have is a grotesque disparity between the rich and poor that is only getting wider.

I identify with the 99 per cent.