Archibald Cary Coolidge Quotes

I didn't believe one man should have so much services and another man should have none.

The world has grown rich and refined, but chiefly by the efforts of those who themselves continue poor and ignorant.

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.

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.

Hunger, the inseparable companion of the poor, is the offspring of the unequal distribution of the wealth and the injustices in this world. The rich do not know hunger.

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

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

I'm not interested in defending the position of those who already have money, power and privilege.

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

Inequality is inextricably linked with distribution of land and natural resources.

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.

I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.

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

Washing dishes as a 17-year-old in an Oxford college and seeing the privileged lifestyles of the undergraduates there convinced me that a system that allowed luxury for the few at the expense of the many needed to be challenged.

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.

We spend more on cows than the poor.

I'm concerned about - the oppression of the poor.

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

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.

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

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

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

Society is composed of two great classes-those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

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