Stephen J. Field Quotes

As recognized since ancient times, the coexistence of very rich and very poor leads to two possibilities, neither a happy one. The rich can rule alone, disenfranchising or even enslaving the poor, or the poor can rise up and confiscate the wealth of the rich.

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

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

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

I come from the poor people, and I have been here working my whole stinkin' career for people who don't have a chance, and I really resent anybody that says I'm doing it for the rich. Give me a break.

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

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

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.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

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.

Revolutions break out when opposite parties, the rich and the poor, are equally balanced, and there is little or nothing between them.

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.

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.

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

The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.

The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.

If class warfare isn’t the richest of the rich fighting tooth and nail against unions and any tax increases while record numbers of people lose their homes, what is?

There’s been an economic war going on in this country and the middle class and the poor have been losing..

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

The rich rob the poor, and the poor rob one another.

The world belongs to the wealthy, and nowhere is this injustice more apparent than in the workplace.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

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

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

There are precedents for what happens when societies allow the divide between rich and poor to get so huge that it stops being funny and starts becoming a sick, blood-boiling joke. If you had a Tardis, you could go back to 1917 and ask the Russian royal family how it was all going.