Ha-Joon Chang Quotes

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

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

As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.

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

I'm still a communist in the sense that I don't believe the world will survive with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer - I think that the pressures will get so tremendous that the social contract will just come apart.

The possessions of the rich are stolen property.

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

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection. It is plunder!

That system, unequal as it is indefensible, is the mightiest engine of oppression imposed upon an honest yeomanry since the feudal ages. This system places a high premium on wealth and a severe penalty on poverty.

Allow the rich (no matter under what pretext, whether of philanthropy, or patriotism, or interest) to prescribe the education of the poor, and they prescribe their condition and relative importance.

We have two American flags always; one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it, it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it, it means danger, revolution.

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

While lawmakers should eschew soaking the rich, that is no excuse for soaking the poor.

The poor developed an envy and an extreme jealousy, born of the realization that they are as worthy, or even more worthy than the wealthy, and are nonetheless afflicted with poverty, hunger, misery, and contempt.

The rich don’t need to rely on government … -- they can buy … things for themselves. In the process, they become more distant from ordinary people, losing whatever empathy they may have once had. They also worry about strong government: one that could use its powers to … take some of their wealth, and invest it for the common good.

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

Israel's middle class is paying for those below it, and that's fine, but also for those who are above it, and that's very wrong.

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.

If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country.

The rich stick together; the poor and the marginalised are thrown together.

The most powerful forces in economics are not numbers or facts. They are prejudices and preferences. No amount of evidence will ever change the degree to which many of the rich and powerful prefer themselves to be richer and more powerful and others poorer and weaker.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to.

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