Chris Rock Quotes

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

1% of the population has all the money and the other 99% have nothing.

Money can't buy poverty.

I don't have a lot of money. I get some from Mad Men. But I don't think I'm rich.

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

There’s a mal-distribution in wealth in this country. Entitlements end up going to the rich anyway. Some of them should be attacked. The ones who rip us off, the ones who get bailed out.

People who can least afford to pay rent, pay rent. People who can most afford to pay rent, build up equity.

It's easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.

The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.

If we really just wanted to focus on making money, the first billion people who are already on Facebook have way more money than the next five or six billion people combined. It's not fair, but it's the way that it is. And, we just believe that everyone deserves to be connected, and on the Internet, so we're putting a lot of energy towards this.

There's a wealth gap that is happening, and that is all over the world, you know? The rich are getting richer and holding a higher percentage of money or wealth that's out there.

We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.

'Inequality' has become the political theme/slogan of our time in both Europe and the U.S., yet political leaders do not even bother to consider that their own policies, which put the entire burden on central bankers to print money and drive up stock, bond and other asset prices, are actually exacerbating income and wealth disparity.

Money creates a power relationship between the payer and the payee.

There's not too many rich black people in this world.

I do think that being a sort of celebrity and being well off does give me some responsibility. I think that people who make a lot of money - and I do - should certainly give a considerable amount of it away.

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

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

No one should have more than five times the wealth of the poorest person.

Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.

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

Money is like manure. If it's concentrated in a big pile it really begins to stink, but if it's spread around a lot, it can do a lot of good.

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