Michael Gove Quotes

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.

I didn't believe one man should have so much services and another man should have none.

There are two separate systems in America. One for the privileged, and one for everybody else.

We cannot rebuild the American Dream here at home by catering to the voices of the privileged and powerful.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

People don't want to have to justify their privileges; they don't want to have to justify having access to the power and resource that wealth brings. And by not talking about it, they are able to hold onto their power without being questioned, and I think that makes them feel more secure.

Washing dishes as a 17-year-old in an Oxford college and seeing the privileged lifestyles of the undergraduates there convinced me that a system that allowed luxury for the few at the expense of the many needed to be challenged.

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.

In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.

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

Why did the world ever become so unequal?

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

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

Surely there is something unlovely, to modern as against medieval minds, about marked inequality of either kind income or power.

To be concerned about inequality is not engaging in class warfare.

If it is held to be morally wrong and anti-social for one man to possess huge estates, which he may develop or not as he chooses, while hundreds of others nearby are relegated to landlessness, why should one people acquire, by similar accident of birth or achievement, a claim to an inordinate share of the good things of life and a right to exclude from them other less fortunate peoples, white, black, or yellow?

The greatest issue before the people—the question of special privilege and unequal distribution of wealth.

Liberty is impossible if 36 thousand families at the top of the economic pyramid get as much income as 12 million families at the bottom.

The world belongs to the wealthy, and nowhere is this injustice more apparent than in the workplace.

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

The most powerful forces in economics are not numbers or facts. They are prejudices and preferences. No amount of evidence will ever change the degree to which many of the rich and powerful prefer themselves to be richer and more powerful and others poorer and weaker.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

'Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream' is an intentionally angry film. How could it not be when the chance of an infant dying is five times greater on the Bronx Park Avenue than on Manhattan's Park Avenue just across the Harlem River?

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

We live in a very unequal society.