Roy L. Smith Quotes

Those who have much are often greedy. Those who have little always share.

These days there is a lot of poverty in the world, and that's a scandal when we have so many riches and resources to give to everyone. We all have to think about how we can become a little poorer.

The more we take the less we become, the fortune of one man means less for some.

Income inequality is the central problem all the way across the world.

God does not create poverty; we do, because we do not share.

The whole world is set up so that for places like Switzerland to exist, that are crime-free and with the best care for everybody, you have to have places like Sudan, or Jamaica. But really, there's enough to share, when you check it. It's not that complicated, really. It's probably less thinking and more feeling that's required.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

We spend more on cows than the poor.

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

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

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

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.

Distribution of the wealth of the world is something for which no one sees a practical solution

Inequality is bad for everyone, not just the middle class and the poor.

Inequality of income is bad for everyone, not just the poor and the middle class.

No man should be made poor so another man can be made rich.

There is enough to go around. Lack of the will to share is the problem, not lack of the stuff to share.

A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much and so many have so little.

My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak. What I see in my country, progressively over these years, is that the rich have got richer, the poor have got poorer. The rich have become indifferent through a philosophy of greed, and the poorer have become hopeless because they're not properly cared for. That's actually something that is happening in many Western societies. Your own, I am told, is not free from it.

In the operative opinion of the world, he who is already fully provided with what is necessary for him, that man shall have more;while he who is deplorably destitute of the same, he shall have taken away from him even that which he hath. Yet the world vows it is a very plain, downright matter-of-fact, plodding, humane sort of world.

The problem is not scarcity; the problem is power.

There can be no rule of God in the present state of iniquitous inequalities in which a few roll in riches and the masses do not get enough to eat.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider.

The world does not lack the financial resources to feed, educate and clothe its inhabitants. Rather, it lacks leaders committed to addressing the problems of the impoverished.