Ben Shapiro Quotes

I think that there always have been and always will be at least two Americas - the poor America, the second America, tends to be in the shadows. Sometimes it's an America of people in a ghetto of color, sometimes it's an economic ghetto, but definitely there is a parallel America which people in the dominant America prefer to ignore if they can.

If this country ever had a military of the poor, it no longer does.

New York Times, despite its liberal reputation, has been against the poor people of this earth.

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

If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.

The middle and working classes are paying the debt that the financial markets created.

Bonuses balance my budget in New York City. The bigger the bonuses on Wall Street, the more money I had to spend on poor people. The New York City budget is determined greatly by the bonuses given on Wall Street.

If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable.

With all the other -isms that we deal with, that sort of nameless -ism that we have in too many of our hearts against the poor in this country is what wounds us most broadly.

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

Never forget that there are rich people in poor countries and poor people in rich countries.

The poor should not have to learn how to be frugal and the rich should not have to learn to be extravagant.

There is a profound unfairness embedded in the economic system.

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

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

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

The greatest issue before the people—the question of special privilege and unequal distribution of wealth.

There is growing inequality. The families of the all-powerful Ministers are getting richer. The poor and hard-working Belizeans are getting poorer.

I could never understand why our lives felt like a struggle while those living off government largesse enjoyed trinkets that I only dreamed about.

Too often, while well-intentioned, our poverty programs fail the poor. They fail them by keeping them in cycles of dependency.

For all the obsession in Washington and in college faculty lounges over income inequality, why isn't there more outrage over government policies that exacerbate the problem? There are hundreds of programs that make the poor poorer and increase poverty in America.

There are too many who have not shared in the benefits of this economy.

While we have created prosperity for many, too many are being left behind.

Inequality is on the rise in Canada and those at the top have no idea what life is like for most Canadian families.

We know that Brexit would make our poorest communities poorer still. That it would make the powerless even less able to effect change.