Rutherford B. Hayes Quotes

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

The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

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

Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The more millionaires, the more paupers

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

I think greed is a critical problem - the gap between the poor and the rich. The gap between the top 10 percent and the bottom 10 percent.

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

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

An imbalance between the rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

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

How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century.

It is the unvarying law that the wealth of the community will be in the hands of the few ...

Hunger, the inseparable companion of the poor, is the offspring of the unequal distribution of the wealth and the injustices in this world. The rich do not know hunger.

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

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.

All the rivalries of nations have been reduced to this one - a degraded struggle for their share of the spoils of barbarous countries to be used at home for the purpose of increasing the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

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

one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

There’s just too much money in the hands of too few.

Riches run after the rich, and poverty runs after the poor.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

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

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

In our great cities there is plainly in evidence much wealth contrasted with much poverty and some of the wealth has been acquired or is used in a manner for which there is no moral justification.