Catholic Church Quotes

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.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

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

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

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

No harm is done by the possession of Luxury by some people if only at the same time EVERYBODY HAS ENOUGH. The wrong incurred by the rich toward the poor lies solely in the fact that while they revel, the poor starve

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.

The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.

The rich are few everywhere, the poor many.

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

If work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.

For the good of Spain, I should like there to be rather fewer rich people and rather fewer poor.

Poor men's words have little weight.

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

The competition of the poor takes away from the reward of the rich.

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.

In Delhi there was no war other than the usual one -- the war of the rich against the poor.

I agree that income disparity is the great issue of our time. It is even broader and more difficult than the civil rights issues of the 1960s. The '99 percent' is not just a slogan. The disparity in income has left the middle class with lowered, not rising, income, and the poor unable to reach the middle class.

There's more poor people in this country than there are rich, and I stick up for the poor people.

I think in the last thirty years, the rich have gotten richer and the poor have gotten poorer. It is not something that you can see with rose-colored glasses.

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.

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.

The rich are staying in school, and the poor are being drafted. I can't live with that.