Henry Charles Carey Quotes

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

The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.

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

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

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

The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.

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

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.

All the rivalries of nations have been reduced to this one - a degraded struggle for their share of the spoils of barbarous countries to be used at home for the purpose of increasing the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

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

The competition of the poor takes away from the reward of the rich.

The whole policy of the Cotton dynasty tends necessarily to making broader the chasm between these orders is most apparent. It makes the rich richer, and the poor poorer; for, as, according to the creed of the dynasty, capital should own labor, and the labor thus owned can alone successfully produce cotton.

This country is very good at creating wealth, but not very good at distributing it.

Over time, economic benefits are accrued to the stronger, shrewder people in society, and if unrestrained by government, conditions would lead to economic autocracy and political despotism.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to.

Capitalism is, fundamentally, an economic system that promotes inequality.

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

It has often been said, that there is but one rank of men in America… we have no artificial distinctions of men into noblemen and commoners among us, but it ought to be remarked, that superior degrees of industry and capacity, and above all, commerce, have introduced inequality of property among us, and these have introduced natural distinctions of rank in Pennsylvania, as certain and general as the artificial distinctions of men in Europe. This will ever be the case while commerce exists in this country.

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

I am a gentleman. I live by robbing the poor.

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.

No one should have more than five times the wealth of the poorest person.

Oligarchy is to the advantage of the rich. Democracy to the advantage of the poor.

Let Socialists make the laws today and they would break them tomorrow. No sooner do the poor become rich than they harden their hearts to the miseries of the poor. In so far as it proposes to correct the evils of unequal fortune, Socialism aims to repeal the laws of nature.