Capitalism has proven to be the only system that works, but the problem with capitalism is that extreme wealth ends up in the hands of a few people.

From 1945 to 1974, the Western world – including America – was more socialistic than capitalistic, more pro-labor than pro-business.

The biggest and most deadly ‚tax‘ rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits – food stamps, housing subsidies and the like – if their income goes up.

Say there’s a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter – for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that’s saying is that he’s living a fantasy life of rebellion.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn’t necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples‘ money.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

It’s very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.

Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

I don’t want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.

There is plenty of building material and more than enough manpower to make a decent home for every Cuban. But if we continue to wait for the golden calf, a thousand years will have gone by, and the problem will remain the same.

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

Everything the working class has been told to do, the rich do not do. That is my message.

Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it’s going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you’ll never see it.

Trouble brews when we steal from the poor and give to the rich.

In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute – a white skin.

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off – we do not have to stand for this.

The literature associating inequality with social instability and poor health outcomes is pretty convincing.

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It’s the other way around. They never vote for us.

China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.

The whole infrastructure of air travel was, and is, part of government policy. It is not a natural development of a free economic system – at least not in the way that is claimed. The same is true of the roads, of course.

Socialism never arises in the earlier phases of capitalism, as, for instance, among the pioneers of civilisation in a country where there is plenty of land available for private appropriation by the last comer.

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.

George Bush doesn’t care about black people.

A little over 5% of the world’s population produces almost 29% of the world’s goods and services.

It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.

If you’re totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it’s really let us down.

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

A riot is the language of the unheard.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.

We can’t leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world’s people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.

Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.

Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.

The rise in the price of gold is a sign that capitalism has stumbled.

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, ‚What are we going to do?‘ but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that’s nothing.

When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die.

The old-fashioned idea is that responsibility falls upon those who borrow and lend. Money was not borrowed by campesinos, assembly plant workers, or slum-dwellers. The mass of the population gained little from borrowing, indeed often suffered grievously from its effects.

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.

With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.

The trouble ain’t that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain’t distributed right.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?

An important priority for me is a business must get their own house in order. Be or become an agent of positive change in your own enterprise and adopt responsible practices to eliminate the risks that often lie at the root of inequality and poverty.

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

Palestinians have no wealth or power.