George Osborne Quotes

These days there is a lot of poverty in the world, and that's a scandal when we have so many riches and resources to give to everyone. We all have to think about how we can become a little poorer.

If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable.

Never forget that there are rich people in poor countries and poor people in rich countries.

… perceptions of poverty have gone up because there’s been rising inequality.

Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots.

The poor will never cease out of the land.

This country is very good at creating wealth, but not very good at distributing it.

Elvis Presley's estate is making 30 million a year, and they say that Marley shouldn't be, but he is from a much poorer part of the world, and a lot more people need the money.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

When money is controlled by a few it gives that few an undue power and control over labor and the resources of the country. Labor will have its best return when the laborer can control its disposal.

Income inequality is troubling because, among other things, it means that many people in our society don't have the opportunities to advance themselves.

In a world of global dependencies with no corresponding global polity and few tools of global justice, the rich of the world are free to pursue their own interests while paying no attention to the rest.

Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you'll give up your pension, cut your wages, and settle for the life your great-grandparents had, America is not broke. Not by a long shot. The country is awash in wealth and cash.

There's no question that how Johannesburg operates is what made me interested in the idea of wealth discrepancy. 'Elysium' could be a metaphor for just Jo'burg, but it's also a metaphor for the Third World and the First World. And in science fiction, separation of wealth is a really interesting idea to mess with.

The poverty one still sees in America today is more shocking to me than anything I have seen in Ethiopia or Calcutta or Manila, and has made me, as someone living in a society of great wealth and someone who's never had to worry about the next meal, think seriously about what universal responsibility really means.

And if you look at the reality in the United States, where you have more than 40 million people below the poverty line and 42 million on food stamps, and then you look at poverty around the world, clearly the way we're running the engine of capitalism is not serving us well.

We have concentrated wealth and capital to such a degree that the vast majority of us don't have the discretionary dollars to make our economy go and grow.

In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

One of the biggest challenges facing the globe is the gap that exists in the wealth and standards of living enjoyed by the world's nations.

The issue of wealth inequality is ... the great moral issue of our time.

The Negro today perhaps has more political power than ever before and he is worse off than ever before. It is not votes but dollars that count in this civilization.

Republicans look after the rich, and Democrats focus on the needs of the middle class. Neither of them looks after the poor.