Trish Regan Quotes

We need wealthy dogs off the seats of power. They're taking us back to feudalism and I really don't want that. But I'm very far from being a socialist.

one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

The more we allow Republicans to concentrate the lion's share of wealth in the hands of a few, the more power these wealthy few will have. And they will use this power to continue rewriting the rules of both our economy and our political system in their favor.

There is growing inequality. The families of the all-powerful Ministers are getting richer. The poor and hard-working Belizeans are getting poorer.

Income inequality and government corruption are both unfortunate realities in the United States.

The massive upward distribution of wealth engineered by our political class over the last few decades has solidified the plutocratic control of the rule-making machinery in Washington and state capitals.

There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.

The two great aims of industrialism - replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy - seem close to fulfillment.

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

Liberals are concerned about the concentration of wealth because it almost inevitably leads to a concentration of power that undermines democracy.

Patrimonial capitalism's legacy is that many people see reform as a euphemism for corruption and self-dealing.

A lot of people are deeply dissatisfied by the diminishing control they have over their lives, because of the way our system of government is set up, to cater to the powerful, cater to the wealthy, cater to the corporations, and not to the individual American citizen.

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true.

Social inequality … divides society into two classes -- the wage-slaves and the grabbers of capital

Malefactors of great wealth

Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.

Is the great working class oppressed? Yes, undoubtedly it is. God has intended the great to be great and the little to be little.

It is the unvarying law that the wealth of the community will be in the hands of the few ...

The saddest part is that the public officials, both State and Federal, are in league with the capitalists in making the rich richer, and the poor poorer.

There are no great lords who possess everything and a herd of people who have nothing

We have more billionaires than any country but the United States. And Putin can imprison any one of them at a moment’s notice. Do you think he is poor?

Liberty produces wealth, and wealth destroys liberty.

Surely there is something unlovely, to modern as against medieval minds, about marked inequality of either kind income or power.

The First Law of Class Warfare: Once inequalities develop, the upper classes can, with relative ease, drastically reduce the probability of success for any equalizing challenges to the system.