Henry George Quotes

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

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

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

Inequality is bad for everyone, not just the middle class and the poor.

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

The greatest issue before the people—the question of special privilege and unequal distribution of wealth.

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

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

Hunger, the inseparable companion of the poor, is the offspring of the unequal distribution of the wealth and the injustices in this world. The rich do not know hunger.

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

Unequal wealth distribution is a risk factor for inequality that must be attacked by policies.

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

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

Today, half of the national income goes to the richest 10 percent. In 2007, the top 1 percent controlled 34.6 percent of the wealth—significantly more than the bottom 90 percent who control just 26.9 percent.

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.

No matter how we name and dissect inequality, we must keep explaining the larger downside of such concentrated extreme wealth.

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

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.

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.

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.

This country is going to implode, or put another way, it's going to get crushed under the weight of poverty. You can't have one percent of the people who own and control more wealth than the other 90 percent of the population.

When the producers of 'Why Poverty?' came to me to do a film about poverty in the United States, I asked if I could do a film about wealth instead. I tend to make films about perpetrators, rather than victims.

I'm interested in illuminating the enormous disparity between vast poverty and the tiny upper class... This vast inequity is unfair by definition, and I am interested in illuminating that and, where possible, changing that.

The messenger matters. When people of modest means complain about inequality, it usually gets written off as class warfare, but when billionaires complain, the problem is redefined.

It is the unvarying law that the wealth of the community will be in the hands of the few ...