Thomas Carlyle Quotes

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

Wealth is used to entrench inequality, not to trickle down and solve it.

There is far too little discussion in Washington about the collapse of the middle class , almost no discussion at all about the incredible income inequality and wealth inequality in this country, and the fact that we're moving toward an oligarch form of society.

The immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the war, could never have come about in a Society where wealth was divided equitably.

The rich are few everywhere, the poor many.

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

It says anybody can make it, because we're all on a level playing field. But we're not on a level playing field. That 's precisely the point, and that's what the rich don't want to look at. They don't want to recognize that they're not producing wealth at all. They're hoarding wealth. That's different.

One thing's sure and nothing surer. The rich get richer and the poor get- children

We live in a country where a small number of people have incredible wealth and power. America has more income and wealth inequality than any other major country.

It's always the rich and there's plenty to waste, yet still China has a lot of people living in very spare, poor conditions.

The rich are never threatened by the poor - they do not notice them.

Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality.

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

We plutocrats need to get this trickle-down economics thing behind us: this idea that the better we do, the better everyone else will do. It's not true. How could it be? I earn 1,000 times the median wage, but I do not buy 1,000 times as much stuff, do I?

Our family's fortune is growing faster than ever. We're a part of a small number of American families that own most of the country's wealth. But having so much in the hands of so few can't be good for America.

American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.

The aggregation of large fortunes is not at all a thing to be regretted.

It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest.

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

Welfare for the wealthy simply can no longer be afforded.

The prince should try to prevent too great an inequality of wealth .... prevent the wealth of the multitude from being hoarded by a few.

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

... the wrong and evils of the money-piling tendency of our country ... giving all power to the rich and bringing in pauperism.

The competition of the poor takes away from the reward of the rich.

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