Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.

The rich are few everywhere, the poor many.

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

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.

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

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones or inhabitants of different planets ... the rich and the poor.

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

The poorest people are so incredibly poor, and the rich are so incredibly rich on the other side. That is a kind of fascination.

The rich stick together; the poor and the marginalised are thrown together.

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

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.

Growing richer every day, for as rich and poor are relative terms, when the rich are growing poor, it is pretty much the same as if the poor were growing rich. Nobody is poor when the distinction between rich and poor is destroyed.

Everything in America is so stratified by class now. We have the 93rd level of income inequality in the world. You're already seeing highway lanes that are for pay and ones that aren't.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

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.

Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The more millionaires, the more paupers

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.

Society is composed of two great classes-those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

This College system went into practice to draw a line of demarcation between the two classes of society—it separated the children of the rich from the children of the poor.

The "have nots" outnumber the "haves." No wonder the ruling class of every country grows more and more alarmed.

When I was a young fellow I was very much disturbed by there being some people with lots of money and lots of people with no money.

For the good of Spain, I should like there to be rather fewer rich people and rather fewer poor.

Riches run after the rich, and poverty runs after the poor.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves