Eva Peron Quotes

The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.

We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.

Jesus discouraged the accumulation of wealth, worried about its effects on those who had it, and took special pleasure in helping the poor, dedicating his efforts to them. He must have shaken his head at the large gaps between rich and poor throughout ancient Palestine in the first century.

If I had the power I would steal all your royal wealth and give it to Christ’s brothers and sisters.

The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ's name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.

I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.

If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.

Good economic theory must give the people the chance to use their talents to build their own lives. We must get away from the traditional route where the rich will do the business and the poor will depend on private or public charity.

My appeal to the rich is, Deal liberally with your poor brethren, and use your means to advance the cause of God. The worthy poor, who are made poor by misfortune and sickness, deserve your especial care and help.

My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.

Share the Wealth

Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; and does away with it once and for all. Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance. Almsgiving is the generosity of the rich; social aid levels up social inequalities.

No one should have more than five times the wealth of the poorest person.

For the good of Spain, I should like there to be rather fewer rich people and rather fewer poor.

If Eleanor Roosevelt has her way, how are we going to tell the rich from the poor?

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

Jesus taught that we should give to the poor and support widows, but he never said that we should elect a government that would take money from our neighbor's hand and give it to the poor.

We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.

I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that puts them at an advantage over the poor.

According to our Christian ethics, we're supposed to love God, love each other and help take care of the poor. It is immoral to charge somebody making $5,000 an income tax.

The only way to have a better world and end poverty is by closing the gap between the top and the bottom.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing. It's not politically viable; it's not morally right; it's just not going to happen.

We're asking those who have done well to do a little more for the people who need it.