Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

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.

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

We are undemocratic, then, in our religion, as is proved by our efforts to “raise” the poor.

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

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.

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.

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

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

The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender

The wall between rich and poor is a wall of glass which all can see.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

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

The poor developed an envy and an extreme jealousy, born of the realization that they are as worthy, or even more worthy than the wealthy, and are nonetheless afflicted with poverty, hunger, misery, and contempt.

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

The rich stick together; the poor and the marginalised are thrown together.

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.

The way corporate media likes to portray America is as a homogenous whole that high-five's each other at the Super Bowl. But what we have is a grotesque disparity between the rich and poor that is only getting wider.

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

Growing richer every day, for as rich and poor are relative terms, when the rich are growing poor, it is pretty much the same as if the poor were growing rich. Nobody is poor when the distinction between rich and poor is destroyed.

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.

If everybody lives in the same way, there's something almost narcotizing about it, but the true misery of economic class difference is knowing that you can't have what somebody else does.

The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.