Benjamin Franklin Quotes

There are but two families in the world … The haves and the have-nots.

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.

Obama's economic policies widened the gap between the rich and the poor.

There can be no rule of God in the present state of iniquitous inequalities in which a few roll in riches and the masses do not get enough to eat.

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

I'm still a communist in the sense that I don't believe the world will survive with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer - I think that the pressures will get so tremendous that the social contract will just come apart.

The rich are few everywhere, the poor many.

No man should be made poor so another man can be made rich.

Poor people know poor people, and rich people know rich people. It is one of the few things La Rochefoucauld did not say, but then La Rochefoucauld never lived in the Bronx.

There were but two families in the world, Have-much and Have-little.

The rich have grown richer, but their tax rate has declined. The poor have grown poorer, but their taxes have increased.

BRAZILIFICATION:The widening gulf between the rich and the poor and the accompanying disappearance of the middle classes.

Globalization is a form of totalitarianism... It is the rich who rule, and the poor live as they can.

Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.

An inequality of property is the root and foundation of innumerable evils; it tends to derision, and to keep asunder the social feelings that should exist among the people of God. It is a principle originated in hell; it is the root of all evils. It is inequality in riches that is a great curse.

A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much and so many have so little.

With one hand I take thousands of rubles from the poor, and with the other I hand back a few kopecks.

The world has also learned that economic growth, by itself, cannot close the gap between rich and poor.

Inequality is the root of social evil.

The law ... allows rich as well as poor to sleep under bridges.

Mitt Romney said he's not concerned about the very poor. What he means is people making less than a million.

If the poor ever feel poor as the rich do, we will have a most bloody revolution.

The poor have the same basic pleasures as the rich, and the rich will always resent it.

It is easier to ask of the poor than of the rich.