John Ruskin Quotes

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.

The needs of the poor take priority over the desires of the rich

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.

Ordinary people understand that the rich and powerful bully the poor and meek.

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.

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.

This contempt for money is a trick developed by the rich to keep the poor without it.

No harm is done by the possession of Luxury by some people if only at the same time EVERYBODY HAS ENOUGH. The wrong incurred by the rich toward the poor lies solely in the fact that while they revel, the poor starve

The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.

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.

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

Everything the working class has been told to do, the rich do not do. That is my message.

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

George W. Bush has helped those who have most, hurt those who have least and ignored everyone in between.

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

The rich don’t want the poor to get ahead of them.

The biggest problem is that the rich people paying the bills do not share the same goals as the poor people they are trying to help. The wealthy have weak incentives to get the right amount of the right thing to those who need it; the poor are in no position to complain if they don’t.

The saddest part is that the public officials, both State and Federal, are in league with the capitalists in making the rich richer, and the poor poorer.

The rights of the minority must be protected and the rich are always fewer in number than the poor.

One must denounce the economic, financial, and social mechanisms and structures that are manipulated by the rich and powerful for their own benefit at the expense of the poor

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