Thomas Malthus Quotes

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 aversion, in the common people, to a silver and gold currency, had occasioned several tumultuous assemblies in and near the town of Boston. The paper, they said, was not worth hoarding, but silver and gold would all fall to the share of men of wealth, and would either be exported or hoarded up, and no part of it would go to the labourer, or the lower class of people, who must take their pay in goods, or go without

There’s just too much money in the hands of too few.

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

Our nation’s political spectrum is not left to right, but top to bottom. People can locate themselves on this rich-to-poor pole for this is not a theoretical positioning: It’s based on our actual experience with money and power.

It's easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.

1% of the population has all the money and the other 99% have nothing.

The middle and working classes are paying the debt that the financial markets created.

There's a wealth gap that is happening, and that is all over the world, you know? The rich are getting richer and holding a higher percentage of money or wealth that's out there.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

If everybody lives in the same way, there's something almost narcotizing about it, but the true misery of economic class difference is knowing that you can't have what somebody else does.

American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.

Eye-popping tales of growing income inequality are hardly new. By now, nearly every American must be painfully aware of the widening pay gap between top executives and shop floor laborers; between 'Master of the Universe' financiers and pretty much everyone else.

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

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

If class warfare is being waged in America, my class is clearly winning.

Revolutions break out when opposite parties, the rich and the poor, are equally balanced, and there is little or nothing between them.

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

Income inequality is not a bad thing. Income inequality is a good thing.

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

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

The middle class of this country, our historic backbone and our best hope for a strong society in the future, is losing its place at the table.

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

I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken stronger hold on the affections of men, and where the profounder contempt is expressed for the theory of the permanent equality of property.

Our revenue laws have operated in many ways to the unfair advantage of the few, and they have done little to prevent an unjust concentration of wealth and economic power.