Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

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.

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

Ordinary people understand that the rich and powerful bully the poor and meek.

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

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

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.

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.

Oligarchy is to the advantage of the rich. Democracy to the advantage of the poor.

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

The rich in their gilded coaches trample the common citizen into the dust.

The rich have all the speech they want; the poor have lockjaw.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

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

In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.

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.

Everything the working class has been told to do, the rich do not do. That is my message.

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it.

The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.

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

If work were good for you, the rich would leave none for the poor.

We have two American flags always; one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it, it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it, it means danger, revolution.

The "have nots" outnumber the "haves." No wonder the ruling class of every country grows more and more alarmed.

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