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Economic Disparity Quotes

"They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor."
Tupac Shakur
"You know it's funny when it rains it pours, they got money for wars, but can't feed the poor."
Tupac Shakur
"The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money"
Warren Buffett
"When the rich make war, it's the poor that die"
Jean Paul Sartre
"The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs"
Karl Marx
"No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses."
Vladimir Lenin
"The supreme commandment of the rich is 'Invest! The supreme commandment of the rest of us is 'Buy!"
Yuval Noah Harari
"If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you."
Jimmy Carter
"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime"
Aristotle
"It is not a hyperbole to say that the poor are enslaved by their poverty and the middle classes that they have bought into a myth about themselves"
James Baldwin
"History will judge societies and governments and their institutions not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and powerful but how effectively they respond to the needs of the poor and the helpless"
Cesar Chavez
"The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor."
Voltaire
"We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Too much money ain't enough money "
Lil Wayne
"No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable"
Adam Smith