Ali Khamenei Quotes

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

Triumphant capitalism has unleashed a powerful drive toward inequality, not improvement, in the social sphere.

The economy will bump along, with most of us struggling to make ends meet, while the same people who nearly wrecked the economy altogether will be making more money than they can count.

This country is very good at creating wealth, but not very good at distributing it.

Capitalism, even 150 years ago, was more inclusive; there was more of a sense of social responsibility…. Today the system doesn’t seem to be as fair or inclusive. It doesn’t seem to be helping broader society.

To one American family out of four, the idea of capitalism as a benign system of comfort, dignity, and personal advance is only a myth, or worse, a bitter mockery.

I'm here to speak for those who say the American Dream isn't working for them, because I know it isn't. I'm here to say it's not your fault: the ruling class... has failed you.

Everybody in politics claims to want to get everybody out of poverty. What's the opposite? Wealth. And what is often criticized by the left? Wealth.

Things do go wrong. Not everyone benefits from the capitalist dream.

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.

The issue of wealth inequality is ... the great moral issue of our time.

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.

That system, unequal as it is indefensible, is the mightiest engine of oppression imposed upon an honest yeomanry since the feudal ages. This system places a high premium on wealth and a severe penalty on poverty.

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.

Amassing huge profits, sometimes at the deficit of human welfare, is the motivating factor of western capitalism.

The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

The imperialists have also imposed on us an unjust economic order, and thereby divided our people into two groups: oppressors and oppressed. Hundreds of millions of Muslims are hungry and deprived of all form of health care and education.

All the measures of government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

It is futile to speak of liberty as long as economic slavery exists … poverty is slavery!

Yet today our splendid theory of government is confronted by a great peril. We have become blind to evils that menace us. We are confronted with glutted markets and idle labor. It is a condition that makes it possible for a few men to become landlords of a proud city like this while God's poor are packed in the slums. Such a condition is not only a menace to Republican institutions, but a travesty upon the gospel of Jesus Christ.

… capitalism is being killed by its achievements.

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

The burning issue of our time is the growing inequality in income and wealth in our country.

Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.