Anohni Quotes

Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital.

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

Nor can one class appropriate the produce of the labour of another class, as the capitalists now appropriate and enjoy the wealth which the powers of the working man daily call into existence. It is inequality of exchanges which enables one class to live in luxury and idleness, and dooms another to incessant toil

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.

Everybody in politics claims to want to get everybody out of poverty. What's the opposite? Wealth. And what is often criticized by the left? Wealth.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

The wealthy have never liked to pay for the labor that enriches them. Ever since slavery was eliminated, they have been trying to keep it as close to slavery as they can without violating the slave laws.

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.

Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich.

A huge dollar bill is the most accurate way to teach children the real motto of the United States: In the Almighty Dollar We Trust... Until the average American realizes that capitalism damages her livelihood while augmenting the livelihoods of the wealthy, the Almighty Dollar will continue to rule. It certainly is not ruling in our favor.

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.

If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it.

The Occupy movement has drawn attention to how too many in the 1 percent get to play by their own rules while exploiting the 99 percent.

We need wealthy dogs off the seats of power. They're taking us back to feudalism and I really don't want that. But I'm very far from being a socialist.

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.

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

Social inequality … divides society into two classes -- the wage-slaves and the grabbers of capital

One of the most disruptive forces in politics is the feeling that wealth is concentrated in the hands of an alien people.

If work were good for you, the rich would leave none for the poor.

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

If work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.

The working class and the employing class have nothing in common.

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

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

In the United States you have socialism for the rich and free markets for the poor.