Natasha Leggero Quotes

Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as a child. It's something I've revisited a few times in my writings.

The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.

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

The wall between rich and poor is a wall of glass which all can see.

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.

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.

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.

The rich are few everywhere, the poor many.

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.

The competition of the poor takes away from the reward of the rich.

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

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.

I'm not going to do class warfare; I want to be wealthy.

If you look at European societies since the financial crisis began in 2008, with very, very few exceptions, the differences between rich and poor have increased, and sometimes hugely.

Greater inequality in Europe has made people less happy.

What I worry about is the lack of understanding in society around the world that there is a divide in the world between those who have and those who do not.

Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States.

We live in a very unequal society.

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.

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.

We're running out of rich people in this country.

People talk about places like Mumbai as a tale of two cities, as if the rich and poor don't have anything to do with each other.

In 1750, 75 percent of people on the planet worked to support the top 25 percent.