John Corbin Quotes

There shall come seven years of great plenty … And there shall arrive after them seven years of famine, and all the plenty shall be forgotten.

It is futile to speak of liberty as long as economic slavery exists … poverty is slavery!

From time to time, capitalism has a tendency to implode.

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

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

India has political freedom but it does not have economic freedom.

Prosperity or egalitarianism—you have to choose. I favor freedom—you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.

The periods of unemployment accompanying depression in the business cycle ... present a challenge to all our claims to progress, humanity, and civilization.

A rising tide lifts all boats but if you can’t afford a boat, the tide goes up your nose.

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing.

Capitalism and democracy are intertwined into our way of life so intricately that serious problems with the economy (again, particularly as they affect the typical family) represent a threat to almost everything we believe in.

To one American family out of four, the idea of capitalism as a benign system of comfort, dignity, and personal advance is only a myth, or worse, a bitter mockery.

As an immigrant, I truly believed when I was coming to this country that people had the tools necessary to life to live a life that is prosperous, that is just and free. So, every single day, I am shocked with the hypocrisy of this country. That we are the wealthiest nation in the world. But we cannot figure out how to house our homeless people.

Poverty is unnecessary.

I think one of the biggest mistakes that America has made - and maybe the world because this is, sort of, the core of communism and socialism - is that you can have perfect solutions to social problems like poverty, like crime. You're not going to eliminate all crime. Maybe you'll never eliminate all poverty.

The biggest lie of all is that capitalism is democracy. We have no way of understanding democracy outside of the market, just as we have no understanding of how to understand freedom outside of market values.

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

It's true across the U.K. that those who had least to do with causing the economic crisis are carrying the heaviest burden. That's unacceptable.

Speak not of liberty — poverty is slavery.

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

Poverty is the parent of revolution.

No man can always have riches.

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.

You cannot preach self-government and liberty to people in a starving land.

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.