The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

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.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

If you give, you will be blessed.

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.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Some of these Ivy League kids want to have it both ways. They want to be baby members of the 1 percent, which they most certainly are, and yet still portray themselves as the oppressed.

This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

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

You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man.

I would remind you the lesser of two socialists is still a socialist.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

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

I’ve been really, really fortunate.

A solution built by an artist serves the artist more than the solution the capitalist comes up with.

Infinites, when considered absolutely without any restriction or limitation, are neither equal nor unequal, nor have any certain proportion one to another, and therefore, the principle that all infinites are equal is a precarious one.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one – it’s the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky – in the big cities, too, for that matter.

God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.

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

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

We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.

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.

The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn’t want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.

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

Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That’s the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system.

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won’t make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa – and it’s about getting a balance.

I’ve been very fortunate.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

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

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

There’s no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

I’m asking myself, ‚What do my girls, what do all our children deserve in their president? What kind of a president do we want for them?‘ Well, to start with, I think we want someone who is a unifying force in this country: someone who sees our differences not as a threat, but as a blessing.

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

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don’t need to imagine it. It’s called the United States of America.

Treat your children like the blessings they are or don’t have them at all.

Indeed, the Lord has not forgotten! He has blessed us and others throughout the world with the Book of Mormon.

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

It’s impossible, I think, however much I’d become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don’t think I’d ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.

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

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

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

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

I can tell you from experience that God’s help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

I think it’s wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.

There is nothing your highest self wants more than peace. This peace makes you feel worthy of all of the richest blessings of the universe, and when you radiate this out into the world, it is returned to you without fail.