George Lincoln Rockwell Quotes

The only way to have a better world and end poverty is by closing the gap between the top and the bottom.

Pope Francis emphatically does not buy the argument that poverty can be alleviated by the 'trickle down' effects of wealth creation. He is deaf to arguments that the global economy has brought a billion people out of poverty. He is convinced, in short, that the best and only way to expel poverty is fairer distribution of the world's goods.

The distribution of wealth is just as important as its creation.

There never can be equality of rewards or possessions so long as the human plan contains varied talents and differing degrees of industry and thrift, but ours ought to be a country free from the great blotches of distressed poverty.

I see no present solution of a great and intricate problem but that the rich should realize their duty to the poor.

Relief, or redistribution of income, voluntary or coerced, is never the true solution of poverty, but at best a makeshift, which may mask the disease and mitigate the pain, but provides no basic cure.

What does 'economic justice' mean, except that you want something that someone else produced, without having to produce anything yourself in return?

Out of our first century of national life we evolved the ethical principle that it was not right or just that an honest and industrious man should live and die in misery. He was entitled to some degree of sympathy and security. Our conscience declared against the honest workman's becoming a pauper, but our eyes told us that he very often did.

Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance.

Public policy today is favoring the rich, not the poor. It's not addressing the needs of the poor.

We are living in the richest country in the history of the world, yet we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country and millions of people are struggling to put food on the table. It is my absolute conviction that everyone in this country deserves a minimum standard of living and we've got to go forward in the fight to make that happen.

We have moved into an era where we are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society. We are still called upon to give aid to the beggar who finds himself in misery and agony on life's highway. But one day, we must ask the question of whether an edifice which produces beggars must not be restructured and refurbished.

Not to share our own wealth with the poor is theft from the poor and deprivation of their means of life; we do not possess our own wealth, but theirs.

Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.

Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral.

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

We have no right to luxuries while the poor want bread.

The production of wealth is the result of agreement between labor and capital, between employer and employed. Its distribution, therefore, will follow the law of its creation, or great injustice will be done.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

In a world of global dependencies with no corresponding global polity and few tools of global justice, the rich of the world are free to pursue their own interests while paying no attention to the rest.

Just as we should never balance the budget on the backs of the poor, so it is an economic delusion to think you can balance it only on the wallets of the rich.

I don't believe in trickle-down economics. I don't think that people who have the most are inclined to share it, generally.

Government has got to work for all of us and not just for a few billionaires..

A strong economy is perfectly consistent with concern for equity and economic justice.

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