Mayer Amschel Rothschild Quotes

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

It is the unvarying law that the wealth of the community will be in the hands of the few ...

Triumphant capitalism has unleashed a powerful drive toward inequality, not improvement, in the social sphere.

The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.

the leaders of the business community with few exceptions, have chosen to wage a one-sided class war in this country

All down history, nine-tenths of mankind have been grinding corn for the remaining one-tenth, been paid with the husks, and bidden to thank God they had the husks.

The saddest part is that the public officials, both State and Federal, are in league with the capitalists in making the rich richer, and the poor poorer.

All the measures of government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Although the ideal of free enterprise could, indeed, lend itself to the uplifting of the human condition, when it is practiced for profit alone, it becomes but a license for the powerful to further enslave the weak.

The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.

Exploitation. Now, there's a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate.

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

The economy is rigged in favor of those at the top.

The way the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed, and taken most of it into their own hands, is as good as Stalin or Hitler.

Capitalism, racism and inhuman technocracy quietly develop in their own way. The causes of misery are no longer to be found in the inner attitudes of men, but have long been institutionalized.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

The wealthy have installed their slaves in the highest spheres of the state. The banks are privately owned. They are concerned solely with profits. They have no interest in the common good.

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 and democracy are the opposite of each other. Capitalism is a system that guarantees that a few are going to do very well, and everybody else is going to serve the few. Democracy means everybody has a seat at the table. Everybody.

The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind.

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most money. It was the fault of the rich, it seemed, but just how he did not know.

The Occupy movement has drawn attention to how too many in the 1 percent get to play by their own rules while exploiting the 99 percent.

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