Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

The biggest drag on global growth in the coming decade will be income polarization.

No matter how we name and dissect inequality, we must keep explaining the larger downside of such concentrated extreme wealth.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

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

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.

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 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.

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

We absolutely have to restrain concentrations of wealth in industry from spoiling the situation for everybody.

The central issue of our time remains the fact that the rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer.

Economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege

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

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.

It is not the difficulty of the problem which we have; it is the fact that the rich people of this country -- and by rich people I mean the super-rich -- will not allow us to solve the problems, or rather the one little problem that is afflicting this country, because in order to cure all of our woes it is necessary to scale down the big fortunes, that we may scatter the wealth to be shared by all of the people.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

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

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing.

I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken stronger hold on the affections of men, and where the profounder contempt is expressed for the theory of the permanent equality of property.