Gabriel Iglesias Quotes

The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share.

Give everyone a chance to have a piece of the pie. If the pie's not big enough, make a bigger pie.

You shouldn't go around the world behaving ruthlessly when you don't have to. Sometimes you do have to. There is only so much pie to go around. If you're going to take more than your fair share of pie, as socialists would look at it, then someone else is not getting his. That means you've got to take it away from them.

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

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

Poverty is born of super-abundance itself.

one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

We can have a democracy or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.

This country is very good at creating wealth, but not very good at distributing it.

The burning issue of our time is the growing inequality in income and wealth in our country.

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

There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn't enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don't have enough.

An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many.

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

Greater inequality in Europe has made people less happy.

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

We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.

If you go on TV and say there's no other country in the world where you can be born poor and become rich, you get a huge megaphone. If you tell the truth, which is that most of the studies show actually the United States is worse than anybody except Britain in upward mobility, there is no audience for you.

I think inequality is fine, as long as it is in the common interest. The problem is when it gets so extreme, when it becomes excessive.

Everybody can't have the life of a normal, average American person in India - they can't. So, it's about egalitarianism. It's about sharing things more equally. It's about access to natural resources.

Africa is rich, and why are we poor then if our continent is rich. It is not right.

If you get so unequal that people believe they don't have a chance, that the field isn't level for them and their children, that puts democracy at risk.

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

Government has got to work for all of us and not just for a few billionaires..

We have now had a long period of very limited participation in the growth of our society…. If you are going to have broad based political support for economic policies, you have to have broad based participation in the benefits of those policies…. This is a change of historic proportions.