Jane Brody Quotes

If Eleanor Roosevelt has her way, how are we going to tell the rich from the poor?

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

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

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

The rich don’t want the poor to get ahead of them.

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.

We learned many years ago that the rich may have money, but the poor have time.

When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which.

Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.

I think America has dealt with - I mean, this is simplistic, and of course I don't live in America - but the impression I get is that there is not a kind of obligation to dislike those who are better off or be frightened of those who are worse off.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

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

Republicans look after the rich, and Democrats focus on the needs of the middle class. Neither of them looks after the poor.

The rich are few everywhere, the poor many.

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

This contempt for money is a trick developed by the rich to keep the poor without it.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

As income inequality increases, social mobility falls.

What is called sound economics is very often what mirrors the needs of the respectably affluent.

No society is healthy when the gap between the rich and the poor is growing.

It is easy to say that there are the rich and the poor, and so something should be done. But in history, there are always the rich and the poor. If the poor were not as poor, we would still call them the poor. I mean, whoever has less can be called the poor. You will always have the 10% that have less and the 10% that have the most.

The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.

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.