Fair Distribution of Wealth Quotes

Do I consider myself a part of the casino capitalist process? No I don't. I believe in a society where all people do well.

Free enterprise has a role in our society. But it's role must be in accord with the objectives of our people. Only where this role contributes to well-being should we give a encouragement through the use of public funds.

Democracy must knock the rough edges off capitalism so that capitalism is safe for everyone and not just the big boys.

In a sensibly organised society, if you improve productivity, there is room for everybody to benefit.

Absolute justice demands that mens incomes and rewards should ... vary, and that some have more than others-so long as human justice is upheld by the provision of equal opportunity for all.

If there is neither excessive wealth nor immoderate poverty in a nation, then justice may be said to prevail.

The agricultural and industrial system of a free people, like their political system, ought to be an accurate reflex of the democratic principle by the people for the people, solely in the interests of the people.

The idea of social justice is that the state should treat different people unequally in order to make them equal.

Once you open that door to a values conversation, it's going to undercut a right-wing economic agenda, which values wealth over work and favors the rich over the poor, or resorts to war as the first resort and not the last.

If we truly understand, remember, and love the people of Indonesia, let us accept this principle of social justice, that is, not only political equality, but we must create equality in the economic field, too, which means the best possible well-being.

Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of his fathers.

We need economic growth that is sustainable and job-rich rather than just statistically impressive.

You have to be objective about money to use it fairly. It doesn't make you any better or any more useful than any other person. Even if you use your money to help people that doesn't.

One day we'll have a system that includes the rights of the people to make money and keep it, rather than a system where you can vote for the fox or the wolf, but there's no little box that endorses the chickens. Our time will come, you can be sure of that.

The core principle is that we want an economy that works for everyone, not just for a small elite. We want equal opportunity, not equality of outcome. We want to make sure that there's upward mobility again, in our society and in our economy.

I'm tired of this discussion of capitalism and socialism; we live in the 21st century, we need an economic system that has democracy as its underpinnings and an ethical code.

A more humane form of capitalism is about the best I think we can get. Which might sound very reformist or conservative, but that's basically where I am.