Alan Paton Quotes

The middle class has no more to give. The poor have nothing. Let's get it from those who've got it.

You're a coward if you don't stand up. Not for you, but for women. Say something.

Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.

The Jesus I follow is the peacemaker, is one who says forgive your enemies, who worries about the poor, who worries about the poorest of the poor instead of the richest of the rich.

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

The gap between rich and poor is widening dramatically. There's a hangar at the Cairo airport for private jets, billionaires are on the Forbes list, and Egypt's annual per-capita income is two thousand dollars. How can you sustain that?

The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.

The most insidious thing about trickle-down economics is not the claim that if the rich get richer, everyone is better off. It is the claim made by those who oppose any increase in the minimum wage that if the poor get richer, that will be bad for the economy. This is nonsense.

Republicans look after the rich, and Democrats focus on the needs of the middle class. Neither of them looks after the poor.

Politics is the gentle art of obtaining votes from the poor and campaign contributions from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.

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

The rich are few everywhere, the poor many.

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.

They are all afraid to face high taxation to pay for the war. The rich won't stand it—and the poor can't stand it.

The rich have all the speech they want; the poor have lockjaw.

Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat.

The poorest people are so incredibly poor, and the rich are so incredibly rich on the other side. That is a kind of fascination.

Everyone suffers. Rain falls on the just and the unjust alike. It falls on both the rich and the poor too. Leftist materialists imagine suffering to be a factor of economic circumstance.

If the strong exploit the weak, democracy will not be stable.

Critics say the OWS protesters hate the rich. Come on! Success is the national religion, and almost everyone is a believer. Americans love winners. But that's just the problem. These guys on Wall Street are not winning - they're cheating. And as much as we love the self-made success story, we hate the cheater that much more.

Only the rich can get justice, only the poor cannot escape it.

The function of law and theology are the same: to keep the poor from taking back by violence what the rich have stolen by cunning.

A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists.

Damned, damned be the rich! May not even their fingernails be left!... I'm sure that they are going to Hell head-first.

The worldview of the Left is a battle between rich and poor