Anton Chekhov Quotes

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

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 poor have the same basic pleasures as the rich, and the rich will always resent it.

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

For the good of Spain, I should like there to be rather fewer rich people and rather fewer poor.

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

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

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

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

…of all the causes of seditions and changes in the Republic, there is none greater than the excessive wealth of a few subjects, and the extreme poverty of the majority.

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

In prosperous times the mercantile classes often realize fortunes, which go far towards securing them against the future; but unfortunately the working classes, though they share in the general prosperity, do not share in it so largely as in the general adversity.

Obama's economic policies widened the gap between the rich and the poor.

There were but two families in the world, Have-much and Have-little.

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

The rich are never as possessed by their riches as the poor are by their poverty.

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.

As a rule, only the poor are generous.

Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.

In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

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

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States.

I think greed is a critical problem - the gap between the poor and the rich. The gap between the top 10 percent and the bottom 10 percent.