Redistribution of Resources Quotes

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

The needs of the poor take priority over the desires of the rich

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

A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.

The socialism of our day has done good service in setting men to thinking how certain civilizing benefits, now only enjoyed by theopulent, can be enjoyed by all.

These days there is a lot of poverty in the world, and that's a scandal when we have so many riches and resources to give to everyone. We all have to think about how we can become a little poorer.

We think we do so much for the poor, but it is they who make us rich

We tax the people in Watts to send the children of Beverly Hills to college.

The only real struggle in the history of the world ... is between the vested interest and social justice.

With a Socialist government, there will not be a national surplus whilst there continues to be inequality.

Charity isn't a good substitute for justice.

Charity has always been a expression of the guilty consciences of a ruling class.

Sometimes Republicans engage in number-crunching analysis that doesn't always take the neediest into account.

You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

Trying to stretch the mission of a health program like Medicaid, as a way to launder redistributionist goals, ends up serving nobody well.

Margaret Thatcher's government redistributed money from rich to poor. And that's the nature of a modern western democracy.

So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough.

God gives us humans everything we need to flourish, but he's not the one who's supposed to divvy up the loot. You want to see where Christ crucified abides today? Go to where the poor are suffering and fighting back, and that's where He is.

Reforming the social structures which perpetuate poverty and the exclusion of the poor first requires a conversion of mind and heart.

God chooses to arrive among the poor and the insignificant and the politically awkward, so what are we missing when we overlook them?

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

We should not think of poverty eradication as a matter of collecting money and giving it to the poor so much as of reforming the global rules that are disadvantaging the poor and making it impossible for them to fend for themselves.

We wish, in a word, equality - equality in fact as a corollary, or rather, as primordial condition of liberty. From each according to his faculties, to each according to his needs; that is what we wish sincerely and energetically.

Is not the action of nature like the stretching of a bow? The high, it pulls down; the low, it lifts up; It takes from what is in excess In order to make good of what is deficient. Who can take what they have in excess and offer it to others?

Whenever people get frustrated with substance, they tend to want to move boxes around [i.e. reorganize].