Thomas Sowell Quotes

Well, I don't care for Paul Ryan's sound or his lyrics. He can like whatever bands he wants, but his guiding vision of shifting revenue more radically to the one percent is antithetical to the message of Rage.

It's immoral and wrong that the top 1 percent of the USA owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent. We should look at countries like Denmark and Sweden and Norway and look at what they've accomplished for their working people.

Social justice rests on the hate towards those that enjoy a comfortable position, namely, upon envy.

Class envy is dangerous.

To understand the Left, one must understand that in its view the greatest evil is material inequality. The Left is more troubled by economic inequality than by evil as humanity has generally understood the term.

We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.

Progressive policies lead to a regressive society.

The vocabulary of the political left is fascinating. For example, it is considered to be 'materialistic' and 'greedy' to want to keep what you have earned. But it is 'idealistic' to want to take away what someone else has earned and spend it for your own political benefit or to feel good about yourself.

There can be little doubt that many egalitarians are motivated at least partly by envy.

The only way to have a better world and end poverty is by closing the gap between the top and the bottom.

Conservatives believe the economy functions better if the rich have more money and everyone else has less. But they're wrong. It's just the opposite.

I identify with the 99 per cent.

In one sense, Obama's point couldn't be clearer: race is a distraction from class-based inequities. And if we dismiss working-class resentment as camouflaged racism, we will continue to be distracted by the spectre of race.

We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

There is a legitimate concern about wealth distribution in the United States, but the answer is not to scapegoat any individual who makes over $200,000 per year and to try to sell the fraud that the government can equitably take the money of those who have earned it and give it to those who haven't.

Many times, people attack the well-to-do people. They see an opportunity.

So when the only domestic social policy is tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans, we say, 'Where is faith being put into action here?'

The messenger matters. When people of modest means complain about inequality, it usually gets written off as class warfare, but when billionaires complain, the problem is redefined.

Government has got to work for all of us and not just for a few billionaires..

Share the Wealth

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

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

We will not settle for a state that will settle for an underclass.

In a morally adjusted economy ... the rich should not get richer if the poor get poorer.