Quotes About Inequality

Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist, and you will sweep war from the earth.

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

Their Silver war is being paid for in Red blood.

Today the world seems to be like a stagnated place, because the majority of humanity are not eager to see others rise.

The poor manufacture the engines of their own destruction, but it's the rich who sell them.

Above all Vietnam was a war that asked everything of a few and nothing of most in America.

The weak against the strong Is always in the wrong.

"Freedom" in capitalist countries exists only for those who possess money and who consequently hold power.

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.

Them that's got shall get, Them that's not shall lose. So the Bible says, And it still is news. Mama may have, Papa may have, But God bless the child that's got his own.

There is no such thing as an acceptable level of unemployment, because hunger is not acceptable, poverty is not acceptable, poor health is not acceptable, and a ruined life is not acceptable.

Those who know the normal life of the poor... will realize well enough that without economic security, liberty is not worth having.

Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.

The Reformation has been called in a biting epigram "a rising of the rich against the poor."

Contrary to the received wisdom, global markets are not unregulated. They are regulated to produce inequality.

If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves.

The most common and durable source of faction has been the various and unequal distribution of property.

The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.

The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.

I am not biased against the rich because they are rich, but the most lively people are those without money who would like to have some

Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society.

Hard-core structural poverty has a counterpart at the apex: hard-core structural affluence.

I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.