Charles Bock Quotes

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.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

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

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

Liberty is impossible if 36 thousand families at the top of the economic pyramid get as much income as 12 million families at the bottom.

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

At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.

The money I pay for my cultural experiences came willingly from my own pocket - they were not the result of bread being removed from the mouths of the poor so that Miss Thing here could mince off to the circus smelling of roses.

Everything the working class has been told to do, the rich do not do. That is my message.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

If everybody lives in the same way, there's something almost narcotizing about it, but the true misery of economic class difference is knowing that you can't have what somebody else does.

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

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

The biggest problem is that the rich people paying the bills do not share the same goals as the poor people they are trying to help. The wealthy have weak incentives to get the right amount of the right thing to those who need it; the poor are in no position to complain if they don’t.

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

I didn't believe one man should have so much services and another man should have none.

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

Laws grind the poor and rich men rule the law.

The poor should not have to learn how to be frugal and the rich should not have to learn to be extravagant.

There are but two families in the world … The haves and the have-nots.

Choose equality …. Inequality has the natural and necessary effect … of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class.

The world no longer permits the stronger to kill the weaker, but it allows the wealthy to oppress the poor. Money is holier than man. Human life is less sacred than property. To save a dollar is regarded as a more necessary virtue than to save a human heart. Society cares more for fortune than for truth.

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.