Bruce Grocott Quotes

It would be well for those interested to reflect whether there now exists, or ever has existed, a wealthy and civilized community in which one portion did not live on the labor of another.... Remember that labor is the only source of wealth, and how small a portion of it, in all old and civilized countries, even the best governed, is left to those by whose labor wealth is created.

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

If work were good for you, the rich would leave none for the poor.

The central issue of our time remains the fact that the rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer.

The messenger matters. When people of modest means complain about inequality, it usually gets written off as class warfare, but when billionaires complain, the problem is redefined.

It is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior.

The social order we have built recognizes no exploitation of man by man. In our country there are no rich people to live at the expense of the workers and peasants. Just as there are no poor people living on the charity of others.

The needs of the poor take priority over the desires of the rich

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

The yacht of the millionaire incorporates a million days' labor which might have been given to abolishing the slums …

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

'The Deuce' takes a look at the remarkable paradigm of capitalism and labor: where money goes and how it's routed; who has power and who doesn't; who is exploited and who's not.

The most powerful forces in economics are not numbers or facts. They are prejudices and preferences. No amount of evidence will ever change the degree to which many of the rich and powerful prefer themselves to be richer and more powerful and others poorer and weaker.

I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.

The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.

Elites always tell poor people, “Work hard and play by the rules.”

The rich are few everywhere, the poor many.

The whole contention lies between those that labor for a living and those that do not.

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

There are no limits to which powers of privilege will not go to keep the workers in slavery.

This contempt for money is a trick developed by the rich to keep the poor without it.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

In the United States you have socialism for the rich and free markets for the poor.

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

The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.