Amit Bhatia Quotes

The only way to have a better world and end poverty is by closing the gap between the top and the bottom.

The thing about Occupy is that the sentiment the movement embodies is timeless: Don't be greedy, share.

Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.

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

Government has got to work for all of us and not just for a few billionaires..

No one should have more than five times the wealth of the poorest person.

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

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

Distribution of the wealth of the world is something for which no one sees a practical solution

The social justice movement of the 21st century is economic development.

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

In talking about equality and asking vehemently for its realization, nobody advocates a curtailment of his own present income.

Everybody in politics claims to want to get everybody out of poverty. What's the opposite? Wealth. And what is often criticized by the left? Wealth.

The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

We do not accept that ours will ever be a nation of haves and have-nots. We must always be a nation of haves and soon-to-haves.

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.

Income inequality is troubling because, among other things, it means that many people in our society don't have the opportunities to advance themselves.

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.

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.

Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you'll give up your pension, cut your wages, and settle for the life your great-grandparents had, America is not broke. Not by a long shot. The country is awash in wealth and cash.

We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.

We spend more on cows than the poor.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.