Lord Acton Quotes

Republicans look after the rich, and Democrats focus on the needs of the middle class. Neither of them looks after the poor.

The poverty one still sees in America today is more shocking to me than anything I have seen in Ethiopia or Calcutta or Manila, and has made me, as someone living in a society of great wealth and someone who's never had to worry about the next meal, think seriously about what universal responsibility really means.

If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable.

The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

Never forget that there are rich people in poor countries and poor people in rich countries.

Let Socialists make the laws today and they would break them tomorrow. No sooner do the poor become rich than they harden their hearts to the miseries of the poor. In so far as it proposes to correct the evils of unequal fortune, Socialism aims to repeal the laws of nature.

There are only two families in the whole world, my old grandmother used to say, The Haves and the Have-Nots.

The poor will never cease out of the land.

They are all afraid to face high taxation to pay for the war. The rich won't stand it—and the poor can't stand it.

When I was a young fellow I was very much disturbed by there being some people with lots of money and lots of people with no money.

The rich have all the speech they want; the poor have lockjaw.

Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat.

This country is very good at creating wealth, but not very good at distributing it.

… perceptions of poverty have gone up because there’s been rising inequality.

No society is healthy when the gap between the rich and the poor is growing.

All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it.

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.

Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as a child. It's something I've revisited a few times in my writings.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

Poverty is unnecessary.

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.