Ramiz Alia Quotes

If work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

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

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

Worrying about the poor is one thing. To contend that equality is necessary for growth is an altogether different and more radical idea.

We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.

It is because of capitalism that we can pay for services to poor people that we don't even know.

No one should have more than five times the wealth of the poorest person.

The needs of the poor take priority over the desires of the rich

An industry that can not pay its workers a decent living wage has no right to exist.

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing.

Unless you’re at the very top, you need a more equitable economy.

It would be well for those interested to reflect whether there now exists, or ever has existed, a wealthy and civilized community in which one portion did not live on the labor of another.... Remember that labor is the only source of wealth, and how small a portion of it, in all old and civilized countries, even the best governed, is left to those by whose labor wealth is created.

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.

No harm is done by the possession of Luxury by some people if only at the same time EVERYBODY HAS ENOUGH. The wrong incurred by the rich toward the poor lies solely in the fact that while they revel, the poor starve

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

There's more poor people in this country than there are rich, and I stick up for the poor people.

One thing that is clearly not maximized by free markets is equality. I am talking not about that pale substitute for equality known as equality of opportunity but about equality itself.

I don't subscribe to the view that people who are better off don't want to live in a more equal society.

Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.

Reagan's approach will achieve one of the basic goals of the conservative: Things remain basically the same. The rich stay rich and the poor stay poor, or even a little poorer.

There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.

Economic issues are a subset of social justice. Social justice is unimaginable without economic justice. Isn't that obvious?

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

My mother - she's a good old classic Northern European socialist - she's totally wonderful, but she raised me up believing that rich people have stolen their money from poor people.