John Ruskin Quotes

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.

In the last recession, 99 percent of us have lost wealth, but did you know that the top 1 percent increased their wealth five times? It tells you they create recessions so they get wealthier.

Support of private ownership does not mean that anyone has the right to unlimited accumulation of wealth

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.

Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number.

Our revenue laws have operated in many ways to the unfair advantage of the few, and they have done little to prevent an unjust concentration of wealth and economic power.

It would be well for those interested to reflect whether there now exists, or ever has existed, a wealthy and civilized community in which one portion did not live on the labor of another.... Remember that labor is the only source of wealth, and how small a portion of it, in all old and civilized countries, even the best governed, is left to those by whose labor wealth is created.

The struggle for power in our day lies not between Crown and people, or between a caste of nobles and a bourgeoisie, but between the classes who have property and the classes who have none.

'The Deuce' takes a look at the remarkable paradigm of capitalism and labor: where money goes and how it's routed; who has power and who doesn't; who is exploited and who's not.

Riches are the savings of many in the hands of one.

Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches; and tho' avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.

By definition, design, and practice, capitalism is a system that concentrates economic power in the hands of the few to the exclusion of the many.

Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches.

The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.

I don't believe in a redistribution of wealth.

Property is theft.

Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way.

It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.

The aggregation of large fortunes is not at all a thing to be regretted.

It is a fact that around the world the elites of every country are making money.

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

Redistribution of wealth has rarely been from the rich to the poor. Usually it is from the poor and middle class to the rich.

Tax the profiteers.

Welfare for the wealthy simply can no longer be afforded.