Angus Deaton Quotes

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

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

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

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most money. It was the fault of the rich, it seemed, but just how he did not know.

If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it.

The Occupy movement has drawn attention to how too many in the 1 percent get to play by their own rules while exploiting the 99 percent.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

Because TED is for, and by, unbelievably rich people, they tiptoe around questions of the justness of a society that rewards TED attendees so much for what usually amounts to a series of lucky breaks.

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

All the measures of government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

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

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

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 world belongs to the wealthy, and nowhere is this injustice more apparent than in the workplace.

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.

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.

Everything the working class has been told to do, the rich do not do. That is my message.

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

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.

George W. Bush has helped those who have most, hurt those who have least and ignored everyone in between.

We need wealthy dogs off the seats of power. They're taking us back to feudalism and I really don't want that. But I'm very far from being a socialist.

The possessions of the rich are stolen property.

Why did the world ever become so unequal?