Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov Quotes

Poverty is the parent of revolution.

A rising tide lifts all boats but if you can’t afford a boat, the tide goes up your nose.

The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.

There is a profound unfairness embedded in the economic system.

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

A lot of people, including me, are worried that inequality will lead to bad things.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

Massive inequality, we have learned, isn't the best way to run an economy after all. And when you think about it, it's also profoundly ugly.

The misfortunes of people are what economists dismiss as anecdotal evidence.

One morning people can wake up and realize there is nothing left to share, that before state property is privatized, all the cream has been skimmed off, and what's left will just be bones.

We oppose monopoly, the tendency of which is to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Inequality saps the will to conceive of ambitious solution to large collective problems, because those problems [to the have’s] no longer seem very collective. Inequality undermines democracy/

To one American family out of four, the idea of capitalism as a benign system of comfort, dignity, and personal advance is only a myth, or worse, a bitter mockery.

Can a nation call itself free if it finds itself periodically on the verge of bankruptcy and starvation in the face of the fact that it possesses all the materials of the good life?

The economic system ian'r ao muxh fundamentally rigged as the populists contend, as it is fundamentally unalterably, never-to-be-the-same-again changed.

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

We need to tackle extreme inequality because it is morally indefensible and socially corrosive - undermining our health, affecting our well-being, and undermining peaceful societies.

I think Republicans need to take income inequality more seriously. Not because I favor equality of outcomes. I do not. I think the Right is correct to stress merit and earned rewards, not handouts and forced equality. But I think what Republicans are blind to is that power corrupts.

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.

Poverty is unnecessary.

Income inequality is troubling because, among other things, it means that many people in our society don't have the opportunities to advance themselves.

I think one of the biggest mistakes that America has made - and maybe the world because this is, sort of, the core of communism and socialism - is that you can have perfect solutions to social problems like poverty, like crime. You're not going to eliminate all crime. Maybe you'll never eliminate all poverty.

Remember, until the 1970s, the spread of democracy has always been accompanied by the decline of inequality. The more democratic our societies have been, the more equal they have been becoming. Now we have the reverse tendency. The spread of democracy now is very much accompanied by the increase in inequality.

There is here, as in all countries, advantages and disadvantages.

True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is, the sheer weight of numbers of those who failed of this that has made their influence on the modern life as pervasive and controlling as it is.