Quotes About Inequality

I believe poor people are good people, except the ones that are mean . . .

The law is a system that protects everybody who can afford to hire a good lawyer.

There is no good way of measuring poverty.

Good humor pokes fun at the powerful — not the weak.

To be able to proclaim the Good News to the poor we must know what is poverty.

I do not think an enormous permanent underclass is a very good thing to have if you're attempting to operate something that at least pretends sometimes to be a democracy.

When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

A State divided into a small number of rich and a large number of poor will always develop a government manipulated by the rich to protect the amenities represented by their property.

Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.

We're not a democracy. It's a terrible misunderstandin g and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In reality, we're a plutocracy: a government by the wealthy.

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.

Government is in reality established by the few; and these few assume the consent of all the rest, without any such consent being actually given.

He sprang from the grass roots of the country clubs of America.

Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.

Most people seem unaware that corporate influence and wealth has taken over public policy, such that government policy now favors the wealthy few at the expense of the people.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

It is easier to seize wealth than to produce it, and as long as the State makes the seizure of wealth a matter of legalized privilege, so long will the squabble for that privilege go on.

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it

The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.

No government that is for the profiteers can also be for the people, and I am for the people, while the government is for the profiteers.

Democrats don't resent the rich on behalf of the poor. They resent the rich on behalf of the government.