Plato Quotes

We want to lead a country where people will be less greedy. Where people will know that the commonwealth of Nigeria belongs to all Nigerians, where people's wealth depends on the people around you. If you become a rich person and everyone around you is poor you are very poor.

When the fruits of civilization, created by all, are enjoyed in common by all, then civilization is secure. Not till then.

The foundation of collectivism is simple: There should be no important economic differences among people. No one should be too rich.

Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nation's pockets of poverty.

Haiti's economy cannot be built by and benefit just a privileged few. It must be built by and benefit all Haitians.

Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.

Every Man a King, Every Man a King; For you can be a millionaire; There's Something belonging to others; There's enough for all people to share.

Every man a king." Every man to eat when there is something to eat; all to wear something when there is something to wear. That makes us all sovereign.

There never can be equality of rewards or possessions so long as the human plan contains varied talents and differing degrees of industry and thrift, but ours ought to be a country free from the great blotches of distressed poverty.

… in this new and better society there must be neither rich nor poor; all will have to work. Not a handful of rich people, but all the working people must enjoy the fruits of their common labor.

When the people share everything in the state, then will we truly reach the goal of the Min Sheng Principle, which is Confucius' hope of a 'great commonwealth.'

We must work together to ensure the equitable distribution of wealth, opportunity and power in our society.

If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor.

I am never rich in money, and I am never meanly poor.

You're fortunate when you can afford to be virtuous.

The measure of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, but whether, as Franklin Roosevelt said, we provide enough for those who have too little.

All we seek is an America where every person is given the chance to productively contribute to his country and where he can receive a fair and equitable share of the wealth that production creates.

A state of equality is perhaps less elevated, but it is more just; and its justice constitutes its greatness and beauty.

Wealth is not a hindrance, but rather a help towards attaining a proper standing in a chosen field of activity. I confess that as far as I am concerned, it has done me some service as it preserved my character from many a crookedness poverty might have exposed it to.

We have to focus on how do we ensure the economy works for everybody, and not just a few.

The best chapters in our economic history are those that embrace the many, not the few.

In our democracy every young person should have an equal opportunity to obtain a higher education, regardless of his station in life or financial means.

My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.

Equal wealth and equal opportunities of culture have simply made us all members of one class.