Gertrude Atherton Quotes

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

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

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

Relief, or redistribution of income, voluntary or coerced, is never the true solution of poverty, but at best a makeshift, which may mask the disease and mitigate the pain, but provides no basic cure.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

In a world of global dependencies with no corresponding global polity and few tools of global justice, the rich of the world are free to pursue their own interests while paying no attention to the rest.

Pope Francis emphatically does not buy the argument that poverty can be alleviated by the 'trickle down' effects of wealth creation. He is deaf to arguments that the global economy has brought a billion people out of poverty. He is convinced, in short, that the best and only way to expel poverty is fairer distribution of the world's goods.

What the 'supposed 99 percent' don't realize is that they are better off if there are more fat cats, not less.

The issue of wealth inequality is ... the great moral issue of our time.

The rich are few everywhere, the poor many.

Welfare for the wealthy simply can no longer be afforded.

The competition of the poor takes away from the reward of the rich.

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

Tax cuts for the rich defund the critical public programs on which American families depend.

I don't subscribe to the view that people who are better off don't want to live in a more equal society.

You are not going to lift everybody out of poverty through the kindness of wealthy people.

Wealth is used to entrench inequality, not to trickle down and solve it.

I try to deal with the poverty gap - to do policies for all of us rather than only for the wealthy.

Feed the poor and get rich or feed the rich and get poor.

The miserable consumption of the poor is partly the result of the ostentatious demands of the rich. There isn't enough for both, and the latter get far more than they need...But could anything seriously be done about it?

We believe that poverty does not belong in a civilized human society. It belongs in museums [...] A poverty-free world might not be perfect, but it would be the best approximation of the ideal.

One thing's sure and nothing surer. The rich get richer and the poor get- children

We must put an end to both economic freeloading and economic exploitation in America. There must be no place for parasites who draw their sustenance from society without giving anything in return.

I believe the war on poverty is a more American idea than the war on the war on poverty. I believe that most people feel like that. And I believe that it ain't over till it's over.

One thin's sure and nothing's surer The rich get richer and the poor get - children. In the meantime, In between time...