Thomas Jefferson Quotes

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

In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.

The most dreaded of all wars, the war of the poor against the rich … will come and come with all its horrors.

All down history, nine-tenths of mankind have been grinding corn for the remaining one-tenth, been paid with the husks, and bidden to thank God they had the husks.

One must denounce the economic, financial, and social mechanisms and structures that are manipulated by the rich and powerful for their own benefit at the expense of the poor

The rich rob the poor, and the poor rob one another.

The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.

The biggest problem is that the rich people paying the bills do not share the same goals as the poor people they are trying to help. The wealthy have weak incentives to get the right amount of the right thing to those who need it; the poor are in no position to complain if they don’t.

It is assumed that the daughters of the poor are for the use of the rich. They assume that we’re their property.

Poor whites have been pitted against poor blacks to assuage the conscience of the affluent.

The rich in their gilded coaches trample the common citizen into the dust.

All the rivalries of nations have been reduced to this one - a degraded struggle for their share of the spoils of barbarous countries to be used at home for the purpose of increasing the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

Although the ideal of free enterprise could, indeed, lend itself to the uplifting of the human condition, when it is practiced for profit alone, it becomes but a license for the powerful to further enslave the weak.

There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.

Ordinary people understand that the rich and powerful bully the poor and meek.

As recognized since ancient times, the coexistence of very rich and very poor leads to two possibilities, neither a happy one. The rich can rule alone, disenfranchising or even enslaving the poor, or the poor can rise up and confiscate the wealth of the rich.

In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.

Capitalism is the worst friend of humanity.

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

I've always stood on one fact - that all over the world, there are only two things, the Establishment and the poor people. The poor people are a massive majority and across the world they are exploited in different kinds of ways. The Establishment depends on exploiting raw materials and the poor.

The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What's happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It's going to make the situation worse.

The rich don’t want the poor to get ahead of them.