Quotes About Redistribution Of Wealth

#1. Coercive redistribution of wealth through government's abuse of law and misapplication of rights destroys individual liberty; ambition, productivity, and wealth; and the purpose of the commonwealth.

Mark R. Levin

#2. The siren song of redistribution of wealth by centralized government never ceases for those who seek irreversible and unusurpable control over the lives and liberties of private citizens.

Josh Jones

#3. I don't believe in a redistribution of wealth.

Brad Schneider

#4. Fairness does not require the redistribution of wealth;
it requires the creation of wealth, geared to an economy
that can provide employment for everyone able and willing to work.

Felix Rohatyn

#5. I believe Social Security is unjust. I think it's wrong. I think it penalizes responsible people. It penalizes the young and it's a massive redistribution of wealth.

Yaron Brook

#6. I believe the crisis started when we started prioritizing redistribution of wealth instead of its creation.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#7. I actually believe in redistribution (of wealth)

Barack Obama

#8. Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt.

Susan George

#9. People talk about the redistribution of wealth a lot, which is a very valid topic. But what about the redistribution of health? That's even more concentrated at the top.

Bill Maris

#10. Aggression and forced redistribution of wealth has nothing to do with the teachings of the world's great religions.

Ron Paul

#11. The redistribution of wealth creates dependence on the people to whom it is redistributed, it doesn't incentivize them to create their own wealth.

Andrew Napolitano

#12. The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time.

Douglas Coupland

#13. Liberals say they are for civil liberties and personal freedom, but they continue to advocate government regulation of business, redistribution of wealth, and various forms of social engineering to manipulate human relationships and attitudes.

Richard Ebeling

#14. The poor of the world cannot be made rich by the redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty, taking their money and giving it as a reward to people who have failed to escape.

P. J. O'Rourke

#15. The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to collectivists, to people who believe that wealth is best obtained by redistribution, and that message is clear and concise ... Egalitarianism is sinful; it's also cowardly.

P. J. O'Rourke

#16. Martyr says: "Life is pain." Trickster says: "Life is interesting.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#17. History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy.

Victor Davis Hanson

#18. What is crucial to your survival as a race is not the redistribution of power and wealth within the prison but rather the destruction of the prison itself.

Daniel Quinn

#19. We will breakfast together here and dine together in hell.

Richard S. Ewell

#20. She had wanted me to hold rape inside me like a dark pearl, keep it in there, as it grew, as I grew cramped, as it overtook me as hidden things do. Secrets become lies. I'd carried in every step I took this lie, the shame of it.

Aspen Matis

#21. The tactics of Saul Alinsky and Barack Obama are geared toward wealth redistribution.

Monica Crowley

#22. We citizens of the affluent countries tend to discuss our obligations toward the distant needy mainly in terms of donations and transfers, assistance and redistribution: How much of our wealth, if any, should we give away to the hungry abroad?

Thomas Pogge

#23. FORMA PAUPERIS. [Latin] In the character of a poor person - a method by which a litigant without money for lawyers is considerately permitted to lose his case.

Ambrose Bierce

#24. Damn you, knowledge! Ruining everything good, once again. Learning things is most inconvenient.

Courtney Milan

#25. The intuition that had kept Kylar from Vi even from the first time she'd tried to seduce him at the Drake estate suddenly crystallized: You don't share your life with a woman's body, you share your life with a woman.

Brent Weeks

#26. You eat the wealthy, sir, and it will be your last meal.

J.S.B. Morse

#27. I was too scared to ask if I had reason to be scared.

John Green

#28. We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#29. It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.

Jerome K. Jerome

#30. Without love of the land, conservation lacks meaning or purpose, for only in a deep and inherent feeling for the land can there be dedication in preserving it.

Sigurd F. Olson

#31. Some of us are busy doing things; some of us are busy complaining.

Debasish Mridha

#32. I like the idea of dating, but I'm not dating anyone exclusively, particularly right now. It's hard to be in a relationship unless you're ready to go public with it. So it's a lot easier for me to not be in a relationship. I really don't want that part of my life to be tabloid fodder.

Cory Monteith

#33. We all know how 'modern democracies take loaves from the wealthy.' It's the slipups in the 'pass them out to the poor' department that inspire a study of Economics.

P. J. O'Rourke

#34. I have a question. Is it okay to drink while you're pregnant ... if you're planning on giving the baby up for adoption?

Chelsea Handler

#35. The trick is figuring out how do we structure government systems that pool resources and hence facilitate some [wealth] redistribution
because I actually believe in redistribution, at least at a certain level to make sure that everybody's got a shot.

Barack Obama

#36. War may achieve a redistribution of resources, but labor, not war, creates wealth.

Kenneth Waltz

#37. If you put down a good, solid foundation and build one room after another, pretty soon you have a house. You build in your speedwork, your pace and increase your ability to run races and think races out. Then it's possible to run the way we do.

Rod Dixon

#38. Quit being so hard on yourself. We are what we are; we love what we love. We don't need to justify it to anyone ... not even to ourselves.

Scott Lynch

#39. God's people are not to accumulate stuff for tomorrow but to share indiscriminately with the scandalous and holy confidence that God will provide for tomorrow. Then we need not stockpile stuff in barns or a 401(k), especially when there is someone in need.

Shane Claiborne

#40. The fundamental difference is that conservatives think man is created in God's image. Liberals think they [themselves] are gods - they want to create utopia on Earth with wealth redistribution, breaking the bonds of marriage and ties between parents and a child.

Ann Coulter

#41. Clearly, the left-wing groups want to use this carbon theme as a tool for wealth redistribution.

Lubos Motl