Oscar Levant Quotes

Republicans look after the rich, and Democrats focus on the needs of the middle class. Neither of them looks after the poor.

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

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

Our greatest political disease -- the disease of thinking that the community is divided into the relatively rich and the relatively idle, and the laborious poor, and that every social and political controversy can be resolved into the question: What side are you on?

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

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

The Democrats want to help people who have been disadvantaged by the economy these last decades. The Republicans want to weaken and roll back various aspects of what the Democrats have tried to do.

Democrats don't relate to middle-class people.

At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.

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.

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

One of the most disruptive forces in politics is the feeling that wealth is concentrated in the hands of an alien people.

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

Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.

Republicans are the party of the rich. The Democrats are the party of the people.

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.

A poor man is a man who has not got much money. This may seem a simple and unnecessary description, but in the face of a great mass of modern fact and fiction, it seems very necessary indeed; most of our realists and sociologists talk about a poor man as if he were an octopus or an alligator.

I'm tired of people on trust funds telling people on food stamps how to live.

Poor whites have been pitted against poor blacks to assuage the conscience of the affluent.

The Tory party are chiefly made up of the very rich, operating on the fears or the interests, or the ignorance of the poor.

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.

But the most common and durable source of faction [political parties] has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society.

When I was a young fellow I was very much disturbed by there being some people with lots of money and lots of people with no money.