Rafael Cruz Quotes

The only differences one can and should allow in socialism are between hard working people and idlers and between honest people and dishonest people.

We live in the kind of society where, in almost all cases, hard work is rewarded.

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.

The more is given, the less the people will work for themselves

The intelligent quest is for the free society with equality of opportunity. The quest for equality of result is the path to the widest equality of all: despotism.

If you try and level society, then nobody will do anything.

When the leader passes over all alike, not making a distinction, then the endeavors of those who are capable of exertion are entirely lost.

I have a reward-and-punishment system: If I have done this much work, then I can play video games this long. It gives my day structure.

If you're not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you're going to be punished for them, then what's your motivation to continue?

Remember, most of us got something for nothing the first time just by showing up here at birth. Now we have to qualify.

No one deserves anything more than anybody else. Because of that fact, you treat everyone the exact same way as best as you can. Same with musical ideas. My ideas aren't better than anybody else's.

Barack knows the American Dream because he's lived it, and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are or where we're from or what we look like or who we love.

It's about hard work and not gender.

I would love to live in a world that is purely equal, where everyone has equal opportunities in every way. But that is not reality.

Competition for places can only benefit you. If you know you've got that much competition, then you're just going to have to work that extra bit harder so you can catch the gaffer's eye.

A something-for-nothing culture does no one any favours. It makes those who are doing the right thing cynical.

Male, female, it doesn't matter. All I see when I look across the ring is an opponent.

We'll always focus on creating a society where people who work hard and want to get on in life are rewarded.

We come from different backgrounds. Some people grow up with money in their pocket, or they have a certain last name; others have nothing. But it comes down to work ethic. That's where we all play on the same playing field.

You want hard workers. You'd be surprised how many people tell me, 'I don't need to work hard. I'm smart.' Really?

In an ideal world, no one should get something for nothing.

I think it has just been ingrained in me since an early age that the harder you worked, the more successful you were.

If the goal is truly about equality, it has to be about a goal of saying everybody should end up in the same place.  And since we didn’t start in the same place.  Some folks might need more equitable distribution. 

I think hard-working people have more opportunities no matter what on YouTube, regardless of gender.

It's classic the way liberalism works. If anybody has an advantage over anybody for any reason, it's not permitted. It's not fair. And it's got to be regulated and equalized. And in the process, competition's destroyed and when competition goes, so do consumer advantages.