Gordon Brown Quotes

I didn't believe one man should have so much services and another man should have none.

Inequality is bad for everyone, not just the middle class and the poor.

Inequality of income is bad for everyone, not just the poor and the middle class.

The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share.

I'm concerned about - the oppression of the poor.

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

I'm still a communist in the sense that I don't believe the world will survive with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer - I think that the pressures will get so tremendous that the social contract will just come apart.

If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.

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

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.

Income inequality is the central problem all the way across the world.

The world has grown rich and refined, but chiefly by the efforts of those who themselves continue poor and ignorant.

If it is held to be morally wrong and anti-social for one man to possess huge estates, which he may develop or not as he chooses, while hundreds of others nearby are relegated to landlessness, why should one people acquire, by similar accident of birth or achievement, a claim to an inordinate share of the good things of life and a right to exclude from them other less fortunate peoples, white, black, or yellow?

We live in the richest country in the world. There's plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want. And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle - the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start? There are corporations worth billions of dollars - and hundreds of thousands of people who don't get to eat.

In the operative opinion of the world, he who is already fully provided with what is necessary for him, that man shall have more;while he who is deplorably destitute of the same, he shall have taken away from him even that which he hath. Yet the world vows it is a very plain, downright matter-of-fact, plodding, humane sort of world.

Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

Income inequality is troubling because, among other things, it means that many people in our society don't have the opportunities to advance themselves.

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

The money I pay for my cultural experiences came willingly from my own pocket - they were not the result of bread being removed from the mouths of the poor so that Miss Thing here could mince off to the circus smelling of roses.

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

To understand the Left, one must understand that in its view the greatest evil is material inequality. The Left is more troubled by economic inequality than by evil as humanity has generally understood the term.

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 white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.