Ibn Khaldun Quotes

…the ownership of slaves brought men great gain from the multitude of their progeny, who increased because they were exempt from military service. Thus certain powerful men became extremely rich and the race of slaves multiplied throughout the country, while the Italian people dwindled in numbers and strength, being oppressed by penury, taxes, and military service.

The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.

It is hard to redistribute wealth of there is no productive class producing it.

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection. It is plunder!

All riches come from iniquity, and unless one has lost, another cannot gain.

O kings of the earth! We see you increasing every year your expenditures, and laying the burden thereof on your subjects. This, verily, is wholly and grossly unjust ... do not rob them to rear palaces for yourselves.

You're a slave in your own country, White Man. Each year you get to keep less of the fruits of your labor; each year it gets more difficult to carry the burden the aliens have placed upon you; each year the cheap labor of aliens makes your future less secure; each year you retreat a few steps more into the world of slavery.

Taxes and fees in Chicago and Cook County are forcing low-income families like the one I grew up in out of this city. It's clear we can't keep treating low-income and middle-class families like an ATM machine with no limit.

Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made, more often than not, on the blood of poor people, black people, Indian people. They were the ones who paid very dearly for those great fortunes.

The czar always got his dues, no matter if it ruined a family.

Speak not of liberty — poverty is slavery.

Slavery and tariffs. These are the only two issues where, contrary to the general spirit of the republic of the United States, law has assumed the character of plunder. Slavery is a violation, by law, of liberty. The protective tariff is a violation, by law, of property.

With the coming of peace, the workers are no longer needed as soldiers; they are no longer comrades, defenders of the fatherland, heroes. Once more they become beasts of burden, objects of exploitation.

Taxation Is Robbery Tax--Root of all Evil

Every time you exempt a portion of the economy from taxation you put pressure on the rest of the economy.

Poverty is slavery.

Poverty makes slaves of free men.

The only ill-treated groups in Canada I can see these days are hard-working Canadians of every socio-economic class who fork over a lot of their money to the Government.

That system, unequal as it is indefensible, is the mightiest engine of oppression imposed upon an honest yeomanry since the feudal ages. This system places a high premium on wealth and a severe penalty on poverty.

Woe to them, that take away the right of the poor.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term ...to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

We're moving more and more toward user fees, but the people who use social service programs obviously don't have the ability to pay for them.

There is no mutuality of interests ... between capital and labor. It is the iron heel of a soulless monopoly, crushing the manhood out of sovereign citizens.