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Economic inequality18 quotes
We are the 99 Percent. — Priscilla Grim · 2011Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses. — Aristotle · 350 BCAll inequality that has no special utility to justify it is injustice. — Jeremy Bentham · 1795The poor have little,
Beggars none;
The rich too much,
Enough not one. — Benjamin Franklin · 1733Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1926The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. — Franklin D. Roosevelt · 1937All 18 quotes →Rich vs. poor6 quotes
We are the 99 Percent. — Priscilla Grim · 2011The poor have little,
Beggars none;
The rich too much,
Enough not one. — Benjamin Franklin · 1733The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. — Franklin D. Roosevelt · 1937So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent. — Henry George · 1879If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. — John F. Kennedy · 1961Only the little people pay taxes. — Leona Helmsley · 1989The rich2 quotes
Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. — F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1926The rich get richer, that's the law of the land. — Dave Moss · 19922008 Financial Crisis1 quote
Nor is the question before us whether the market is a force for good or ill. Its power to generate wealth and expand freedom is unmatched, but this crisis has reminded us that without a watchful eye, the market can spin out of control and the nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous. — Barack Obama · 2009American prosperity1 quote
We, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it. We believe that America’s prosperity must rest upon the broad shoulders of a rising middle class. — Barack Obama · 2013Decline of democracy1 quote
Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses. — Aristotle · 350 BCFree market1 quote
Nor is the question before us whether the market is a force for good or ill. Its power to generate wealth and expand freedom is unmatched, but this crisis has reminded us that without a watchful eye, the market can spin out of control and the nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous. — Barack Obama · 2009Inequality1 quote
All inequality that has no special utility to justify it is injustice. — Jeremy Bentham · 1795Law1 quote
The majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. — Anatole France · 1894Moral decline1 quote
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay;
Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade;
A breath can make them, as a breath has made:
But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,
When once destroyed, can never be supplied. — Oliver Goldsmith · 1770Moral theory1 quote
All inequality that has no special utility to justify it is injustice. — Jeremy Bentham · 1795Morality1 quote
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay;
Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade;
A breath can make them, as a breath has made:
But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,
When once destroyed, can never be supplied. — Oliver Goldsmith · 1770Natural inequality1 quote
There never can be equality of rewards or possessions so long as the human plan contains varied talents and differing degrees of industry and thrift, but ours ought to be a country free from the great blotches of distressed poverty. — Warren G. Harding · 1921Oligarchy1 quote
We, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it. We believe that America’s prosperity must rest upon the broad shoulders of a rising middle class. — Barack Obama · 2013Poverty1 quote
There never can be equality of rewards or possessions so long as the human plan contains varied talents and differing degrees of industry and thrift, but ours ought to be a country free from the great blotches of distressed poverty. — Warren G. Harding · 1921Rule of law1 quote
The majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. — Anatole France · 1894Taxes1 quote
Only the little people pay taxes. — Leona Helmsley · 1989The poor1 quote
The majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. — Anatole France · 1894Tyranny1 quote
Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses. — Aristotle · 350 BCUnfettered capitalism1 quote
Nor is the question before us whether the market is a force for good or ill. Its power to generate wealth and expand freedom is unmatched, but this crisis has reminded us that without a watchful eye, the market can spin out of control and the nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous. — Barack Obama · 2009Working class1 quote
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay;
Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade;
A breath can make them, as a breath has made:
But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,
When once destroyed, can never be supplied. — Oliver Goldsmith · 1770