Howard Dean Quotes

An imbalance between the rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

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

The middle class serves as a bridge between the haves and the have-nots. If it goes, so goes political stability.

As income inequality increases, social mobility falls.

If you have extremes of haves and have-nots where the gap keeps growing, the have-nots group together and create social disorder, as they can't see a way out of their situation.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

If Eleanor Roosevelt has her way, how are we going to tell the rich from the poor?

The burning issue of our time is the growing inequality in income and wealth in our country.

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.

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.

The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

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

The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.

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

Revolutions break out when opposite parties, the rich and the poor, are equally balanced, and there is little or nothing between them.

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.

The poor generally follow behavior patterns established by the rich.

Unless we labor to help others achieve a reasonable stake in society, we may find ourselves losing the society in which we have too great a stake.

In a morally adjusted economy ... the rich should not get richer if the poor get poorer.

There are no great lords who possess everything and a herd of people who have nothing

If, in a country, the wealth is concentrated in the hands of only the few, it cannot witness harmony and stability.

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

Democracy really depends not only on not just having a middle class but having wealth distributed relatively evenly across the society so that people buy into the legitimacy of the system

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