Brian Gleeson Quotes

For now, capitalism is working to produce more money but does not see the people. This problem is getting worse across the world.

Things do go wrong. Not everyone benefits from the capitalist dream.

I have always been really troubled by the amount of poverty in America. Americans are matched in their rich democracy with the depth and expanse of poverty. That's really always unsettled me.

I like where we're going with technology and global integration, but the fact that corporations and dollars rule everything in our lives, I don't like it. This isn't the Hollywood I wanted to be part of.

I think the collision between the First and Third world is going to become more and more conspicuous. It's the big cliff that we've all got to climb.

The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind.

To see poor people, their benefits being cut, to see pensions of Americans who have worked like my father, all their lives, and taken away, to see the rich just accumulating more and more wealth. I mean, it seems to me that there has to be a point where you have to say, 'No, this has to stop.'

Obviously, I have certain policy positions that I push and advocate for that would benefit people dealing in a system that breeds inequality and makes life more difficult for people.

Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.

I think the Occupy movement is absolutely fantastic; in my opinion, it's probably one of the most important people's movements of the 21st century and the 20th century. The trouble is that nobody really wants to support what they represent. They are too 'grassroots' for their own good.

What must a poor nation do when its very sustenance depends on the remains and bits that the nations gracefully throw them, once they have had their fill…. Our planet is rich enough to provide for all of us, so why this tragic war for life which has been clouding our lives for generations?

All over the globe the U.S. is fighting to protect and develop at least a minority who consume what the U.S. majority can afford.

Global poverty is a powder keg ignitable by our own indifference.

The real threat to the democracy is the half a nation in poverty.

In the United States you have socialism for the rich and free markets for the poor.

The Western capitalist system is sunk to its neck in human problems. Despite the copious wealth that it has at its disposal, it is completely incapable of establishing social justice.

To one American family out of four, the idea of capitalism as a benign system of comfort, dignity, and personal advance is only a myth, or worse, a bitter mockery.

Unlike 30 years ago, people now admire the wealth of the West and lament the poverty of China; they stare awestruck at the power of the Western armies and scorn the cowardice of the Imperial troops; they enjoy the fairness and ease of the Customs and detest the fault-finding of China’s own tax collectors; they praise the orderly governance of the Western-Administered cities, and resent the harassment of our officials, big and small.

Exploitation. Now, there's a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate.

The point is always made that capitalism is efficient, people say 'You might not like it, but it works.' But Britain is not efficient.

I think it's criminal the way poverty is allowed to flourish.

Many communities are already devastated by poverty. Increasingly, that poverty is born of the greed of a global trading system.

These days there is a lot of poverty in the world, and that's a scandal when we have so many riches and resources to give to everyone. We all have to think about how we can become a little poorer.

We must create a kind of globalization that works for everyone... and not just for a few.

So much has happened to obscure the dialogue about race and about gender and discrimination in general, especially where those things touch on economics.