For the criminal who is weak and poor the narrow cell of death awaits; but honor and glory await the rich who conceal their crimes behind their gold and silver and inherited glory.
Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which make it impossible to prove them right or wrong in the way we can with theories in physics or chemistry.
... wholly in the interest of the creditor classes, the banking fraternity, and the commercial world, without proper provision for the debtor classes and those who toil, produce and sustain the country.
For far too long, Congress has been focused on the CEOs, the millionaires, the billionaires.
One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
I don't know, it may be that poor people are the only ones who commit crimes, but I do know that they are the only ones who serve prison sentences.
A conservative is someone who demands a square deal for the rich.
Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man's hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook
All my life I've been prejudiced against wealthy people.
Don't undermine the science just because you don't like the economics. That's a dangerous slope, because the problem of course is you're not undermining just that, you're undermining the basis of rational decision-making in society.
To have money is to be virtuous, honest, beautiful and witty And to be without is to be ugly and boring and stupid and useless.
What is called sound economics is very often what mirrors the needs of the respectably affluent.
Money maketh man a tory, don't fire that assumption at me, I like toast as much as anyone but not for breakfast, dinner and tea
Hatred of producers of wealth still flourishes and has become, in fact, the racism of the intelligentsia.
...it is distressing how often one can guess the answer given to an economic question merely by knowing who asks it.
Behind the criticism of fashion as an artistic medium is a highly ideological prejudice: against markets, against consumers, against the dynamism of Western commercial society. The debate is not about art but about culture and economics.
Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?
Too often we shape our public positions on the basis of our economic connections. That brings us dangerously close to economic determinism.
I’m concerned about the fact there seems to be a war on the poor - that if you’re poor, somehow you’re shiftless and lazy.
The interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment against those whose incomes are larger than their own. This bias makes it impossible for them to see things as they really are. For them the main thing is not to improve the conditions of the masses, but to harm the entrepreneurs and capitalists even if this policy victimizes the immense majority of the people.
