Quotes About Inequality

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended to produce a very unhealthy condition.

I think the big problem is you have a vicious cycle of wealth and power in America that's just gotten completely out of control and you've seen it in politics.

There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.

They fought indeed and were slain, but it was to maintain the luxury and the wealth of other men.

The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.

Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.

Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.

Too many people, because they were white and poor, black and rich, or just plain busy with something other than politics, have felt they had no voice in our government.

The welfare system is the breeding ground of crime, addiction and radical politics.

Most of leaders in Philippine politics come from rich family.

Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.

Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. Simple as that. 'Corporation' is just the most recent name for it.

The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to the white race, there is one solution: extermination.

... the top 10 percent of incomes pay 70 percent of the income taxes and cast about 25 percent of the vote.

I think it's good politics to beat up on big companies and rich people.

Grinding the faces of the poor seems to be the policy of the Greens.

The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.

Advocates of capitalism like to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

Ponzi schemes don't trickle down, they siphon up.

I want to make a positive point of Ikea. It makes income inequality a minor distraction.

We can tentatively credit capitalist civilization with a positive, if very geographically uneven, record in the struggle against disease.