Haves Quotes

Justice often means taking power from some who have it and giving it to some who do not.

Inadequate infrastructure has social as well as economic consequences. Lack of full access to vital networks—whether roads or broadband or running water—serves to reinforce existing patterns of economic growth and stagnation. It threatens to create new classes of haves and have-nots.

The real "haves" are they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence, and even riches without depriving others of them.

In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.

Most of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and have nots.

Throughout our history - and that of the world - it's always come down to the friction between the haves and have-nots or between the average Joes and the large corporations. So that's a recurring theme in my work.

Latin America was born with a birth defect: a highly unequal initial distribution of resources that dates back to the colonial era.

The coming change can only come through a revolution, because the possessing class will not allow a peaceful change to take place; still we are willing to work for peace at any price, except at the price of liberty.

We still have two public school systems in the United States: One for the haves and one for the have-nots.

There are only two families in the whole world, my old grandmother used to say, The Haves and the Have-Nots.

There are but two families in the world … The haves and the have-nots.

The Republicans called it “trickle down” when Hoover tried it. Now they call it “supply side”. But it’s the same shining city for those relative few who are lucky enough to live in its good neighborhoods. But for the people who are excluded—for the people who are locked out—all they can do is stare from a distance at that city’s glimmering towers.

Another current catch-phrase is the complaint that the nations of the world are divided into 'haves' and the 'have-nots.' Observe that the 'haves' are those who have freedom, and that it is freedom that the 'have-nots' have not.

Traditional autocrats leave in place existing allocations of wealth, power, status, and other re-sources which in most traditional societies favor an affluent few and maintain masses in poverty. But they worship traditional gods and observe traditional taboos. They do not disturb the habitual rhythms of work and leisure, habitual places of residence, habitual patterns of family and personal relations.