Thomas Malthus Quotes

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

You are not going to lift everybody out of poverty through the kindness of wealthy people.

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

The best social programs we've had in this country are those that have united the middle class and the poor.

It's not class warfare to talk about fairness.

I want to help the middle class.

The measure of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, but whether, as Franklin Roosevelt said, we provide enough for those who have too little.

We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don't starve. Those are values, too.

If we're not going to tax the rich anymore, we're going to create class warfare.

My mission is to eradicate poverty.

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.

Alleviating poverty would be the Bank's overarching objective.

We need to have the social investments by which to quote unquote distribute some of that wealth.

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

Americans have historically been more willing than Europeans to tolerate high inequality levels if accompanied by strong economic growth and a healthy middle class.

We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.

I want to make sure that we have a tax code that makes sure that everyone benefits, including those in poverty and those middle-income wage earners and those that have already lived the American dream as well as making sure that everyone can receive the benefits of a robust economy and not just the select few.

The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest.

I try to deal with the poverty gap - to do policies for all of us rather than only for the wealthy.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

The transfer of three shillings and sixpence a day to every labourer would not increase the quantity of meat in the country. There is not at present enough for all to have a decent share. What would then be the consequence?

We believe that poverty does not belong in a civilized human society. It belongs in museums [...] A poverty-free world might not be perfect, but it would be the best approximation of the ideal.

Economic stimulation that works through the increased outlays to the affluent has, inevitably, an aspect of soundness and sanity that is lacking in expenditure on behalf of the undeserving poor.

You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.

Socialists will often talk as if some form of superbly equalized destitution were preferable to "maldistributed" plenty. A national income that is rapidly growing in absolute terms for practically everyone will be deplored because it is making the rich richer.