Henry Hetherington Quotes

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.

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

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

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

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.

Labor is, on the one hand, more and more furnished by a class; Property or Capital, on the other, held and controlled by another class. Here you have workers without property—the proletariat. There you have property without work—or capital…. The workers without property are excluded from their products, from the riches they create—which accumulate in the hands of the property holders, capitalists and large land-owners.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

In some portions of the country there was, and is, an aggregation of property, and vested rights are in the foreground.

Throughout history, people with few educational or economic resources and little bargaining power have often looked to authoritarian, ruthless people to stand up for them.

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.

It doesn't matter who you vote for. It's still the same billionaires that run the world.

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

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.

Whenever the very rich hold views at odds with those of the entire population, the federal government tends to do the rich's bidding.

Our family's fortune is growing faster than ever. We're a part of a small number of American families that own most of the country's wealth. But having so much in the hands of so few can't be good for America.

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?

I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Affluence creates poverty.

You've got the top 400 Americans owning more wealth than the bottom 150 million Americans. Most folks do not think that is right.

George W. Bush has helped those who have most, hurt those who have least and ignored everyone in between.

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

The men of middling property and poor men can never be safe in a mixed representation with the men of over-grown property.

Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The more millionaires, the more paupers