The most serious and universal problem is the growing chasm between the richest and poorest people on earth. Citizens of the ten wealthiest countries are now seventy-five times richer than those who live in the ten poorest ones, and the separation is increasing every year, not only between nations but also within them.

The even larger difference between rich and poor makes the latter even worse off, and this violates the principle of mutual advantage.

The superfluities of the rich are the necessaries of the poor. They who possess superfluities, possess the goods of others.

As power begets power and competition becomes more ruthless, the appetites of the wealthy become more extravagant and the excluded become more desperate. The growing gap erodes trust and institutional legitimacy, which in turn compels an ever greater diversion of resources to security measures — from car alarms and security guards to police and prisons.

It is the consumers who make poor people rich and rich people poor.

When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.

Poor people are more greedy than rich people

The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.

This means war. And who suffers most if powerful families go to war?
"Everyone else but them."

Quand les riches se font la guerre, ce sont les pauvres qui meurent.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Economically deprived groups are seen as a threat because they want more, and more for the have-nots might mean less for the haves.

The very rich are not good.

The poor have the same basic pleasures as the rich, and the rich will always resent it.