Victor Hugo Quotes

Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty.

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

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

Income inequity has to be addressed.

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

You know, Saudi Arabia has a lot of poverty also. Regardless about what you hear about the viceroy and people being rich, et cetera.

Social injustice is what puts Scotland at its greatest disadvantage, and restoring the 50p tax rate will start to fight that.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

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.

We hold the view that all men are created equal." Now, what did they mean by that? Did they mean, my friends, to say that all men were created equal and that that meant that any one man was born to inherit $10 billion and that another child was to be born to inherit nothing? Did that mean, my friends, that someone would come into this world without having had an opportunity, of course, to have hit one lick of work, should be born with more than it and all of its children and children's children could every dispose of, but that another one would have to be born into a life of starvation?

The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.

Income inequality is the central problem all the way across the world.

Inequality of income is bad for everyone, not just the poor and the middle class.

I'm not persuaded that the opposite of poverty is wealth - I've come to believe... that the opposite of poverty is justice.

Especially in a rich nation, there is absolutely no reason why everyone couldn't and shouldn't have a life of dignity.

I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.

Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.

Of what good is democracy if it is not for the poor?

Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches; and tho' avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.

The gap between the rich and the poor cannot keep growing without nothing being done about it.

Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man's injustice to his fellow man.

We have to get out of this mindset that the rich will do the business and the poor will have the charity.

Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.

The rich have markets, the poor have bureaucrats.

It is more difficult to fight poverty in a rich country than in a poor one.