Charles Spurgeon Quotes

That was always my experience-a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton .... However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

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

The poverty one still sees in America today is more shocking to me than anything I have seen in Ethiopia or Calcutta or Manila, and has made me, as someone living in a society of great wealth and someone who's never had to worry about the next meal, think seriously about what universal responsibility really means.

I'm interested in illuminating the enormous disparity between vast poverty and the tiny upper class... This vast inequity is unfair by definition, and I am interested in illuminating that and, where possible, changing that.

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

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

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

There are only two families in the whole world, my old grandmother used to say, The Haves and the Have-Nots.

The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but a stepping stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich.

For the good of Spain, I should like there to be rather fewer rich people and rather fewer poor.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

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

This country has so much wealth and so much poverty, and that seemed wrong to me. 'Evicted' was my Ph.D. dissertation.

If all we've got is the dirt poor and the filthy rich, the dirt poor would eat the filthy rich.

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.

After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy.

The miserable consumption of the poor is partly the result of the ostentatious demands of the rich. There isn't enough for both, and the latter get far more than they need...But could anything seriously be done about it?

Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

A lot of people don't know the culture shock of how you can be in a rich area and then be in poverty. People don't know how different it is over there.

There’s no way that Michael Jackson or whoever Jackson should have a million thousand droople billion dollars and then there’s people starving. There’s no way! There’s no way that these people should own planes and there people don’t have houses. Apartments. Shacks. Drawers. Pants! I know you’re rich. I know you got 40 billion dollars, but can you just keep it to one house? You only need ONE house. And if you only got two kids, can you just keep it to two rooms? I mean why have 52 rooms and you know there’s somebody with no room?! It just don’t make sense to me. It don’t.

The rich have markets, the poor have bureaucrats.

It's always the rich and there's plenty to waste, yet still China has a lot of people living in very spare, poor conditions.

God is going to supply a million dollars, somebody is praying right now, right this second, you're praying for a million dollars. God has said, "I have heard your prayer, I know your need, and I'm going to supply the need that you requested." It's done, in Jesus' name.