Henry Giroux Quotes

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 are few everywhere, the poor many.

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.

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

The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.

The top end are still making bucket loads while maintaining the illusion of the American dream: that if you work hard enough, you can make a fortune. Meanwhile, the working and middle classes have been hollowed out of the system.

Wealth is used to entrench inequality, not to trickle down and solve it.

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.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

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

I hear all this, you know, 'Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever.' No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own - nobody.

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

Economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege

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

Riches run after the rich, and poverty runs after the poor.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

Inequality is an inevitable product of capitalist activity, and expanding equality of opportunity only increases it—because some individuals and communities are simply better able than others to exploit the opportunities for development and advancement that capitalism affords.

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.

For two years, I'd lived in Silicon Valley, surrounded by other highly educated transplants with seemingly perfect lives. It's jarring to live in a world where every person feels his life will only get better when you came from a world where many rightfully believe that things have become worse.

The world belongs to the wealthy, and nowhere is this injustice more apparent than in the workplace.

The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.

by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them

One thing's sure and nothing surer. The rich get richer and the poor get- children

The big lie is that the people who make a lot of money were the only ones that worked hard.

Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.