Economic Inequality Quotes

"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." "Whenever people ask me what I'd most like to change about the white working class, I say, "The feeling that our choices don't matter" "The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation" "When the rich wage war, it is the poor who die." "Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor" "The supreme commandment of the rich is 'Invest! The supreme commandment of the rest of us is 'Buy!" "The world is going to have more and more of a winner-take-all economy." "The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations" "Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression, or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that create huge inequalities." "The only difference between a rich person and poor person is how they use their time" "Poverty is the worst form of violence" "The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer" "Many of us live in an economy of scarcity, where we believe there is not enough to go around and that it is our duty to struggle." "A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization" "The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois" "The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites" "While poverty persists, there is no true freedom." "No I don't think people should be experiencing hardship while Elon Musk is drinking Pina Coladas on a tropical island"