Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes

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

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 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 rich don’t want the poor to get ahead of them.

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.

This contempt for money is a trick developed by the rich to keep the poor without it.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

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

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

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.

I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What's happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It's going to make the situation worse.

The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender

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

How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century.

The poor generally follow behavior patterns established by the rich.

We are undemocratic, then, in our religion, as is proved by our efforts to “raise” the poor.

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones or inhabitants of different planets ... the rich and the poor.

The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but a stepping stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich.

The saddest part is that the public officials, both State and Federal, are in league with the capitalists in making the rich richer, and the poor poorer.

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

Riches run after the rich, and poverty runs after the poor.