Aneurin Bevan Quotes

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

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.

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

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

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.

I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The more millionaires, the more paupers

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

Leaders of the business community ... have chosen to wage a one-sided class war today in this country - a war against working people, the unemployed, the poor, the minorities, the very young and the very old. .

The central issue of our time remains the fact that the rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer.

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.

When I was a young fellow I was very much disturbed by there being some people with lots of money and lots of people with no money.

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

This contempt for money is a trick developed by the rich to keep the poor without it.

The rich have all the speech they want; the poor have lockjaw.

... the wrong and evils of the money-piling tendency of our country ... giving all power to the rich and bringing in pauperism.

The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.

American economic greatness has never trickled down from the top.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

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

Liberals are concerned about the concentration of wealth because it almost inevitably leads to a concentration of power that undermines democracy.

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.