Quotes About Wealth Redistribution

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Monica Crowley

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

Lubos Motl

#5. All cruelty springs from weakness.

Seneca.

#6. In the beginning, we made the usual mistake of looking at houses we could afford. I am working on a proposition, hereafter to be known as Kerr's law, which states in essence: All the houses you can afford to buy are depressing.

Jean Kerr

#7. 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

#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. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

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

Barack Obama

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

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#14. 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

#15. 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

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

Brad Schneider

#17. 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

#18. I never do any television without chocolate. That's my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually I'm a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. It's amazing I'm so slim.

Dawn French

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

J.S.B. Morse

#20. That Native American cultures are imperiled is important and not just to Indians. It is important to everyone, or should be. When we lose cultures, we lose American plurality -- the productive and lovely discomfort that true difference brings.

David Treuer

#21. 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

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

Ron Paul

#23. 'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.

John Milton

#24. 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

#25. 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

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

Douglas Coupland

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

Kenneth Waltz

#28. Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.

Laozi

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. The author can always delve into his own personality and find aspects of himself with which he can dress his characters.

Terry Pratchett

#32. Everyone in my family is a risk taker in his or her own way.

Ann Bancroft

#33. You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.

Patrick Leahy

#34. 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

#35. 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