Richard Henry Tawney Quotes

There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.

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

Richer people tend to be happier than poor people, and people in poor countries tend to be less happy than people in rich countries.

Only the poor are forbidden to beg.

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.

For the good of Spain, I should like there to be rather fewer rich people and rather fewer poor.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

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

American economic greatness has never trickled down from the top.

Good workmen are seldom rich.

Many a beggar at the crossway, or gray-haired shepherd on the plain, hath more of the end of all wealth than hundreds who multiply the means.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor - as long as you've got money.

We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

If someone offered me a hundred million dollars to make a movie? I would first remind him that there are 850 million people in the world who don't have enough to eat.

Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you'll give up your pension, cut your wages, and settle for the life your great-grandparents had, America is not broke. Not by a long shot. The country is awash in wealth and cash.

Let some people get rich first.

If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable.

The difference of the degrees in which the individuals of a great community enjoy the good things of life has been a theme of declaration and discontent in all ages.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

When the producers of 'Why Poverty?' came to me to do a film about poverty in the United States, I asked if I could do a film about wealth instead. I tend to make films about perpetrators, rather than victims.

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