Redistribution Of Wealth Quotes:

I actually believe in redistribution (of wealth)

- Barack Obama

topic: Believe, Wealth, Redistribution Of Wealth

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

- Douglas Coupland

topic: Wealth, Prosperity, Modern, Redistribution Of Wealth

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

topic: People, Giving, World, Redistribution Of Wealth, Perdition

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

topic: Song, Government, Liberty, Centralized Government, Redistribution Of Wealth

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Wise, Wisdom, Men, Felicity, Limiting Government

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

topic: Government, Enemy, Shrinking, Redistribution Of Wealth

Jesus teaches the redistribution of wealth - as long as the transfer is voluntary. But he is adamantly opposed to the involuntary redistribution of wealth, because that violates the moral law of God and is profoundly wrong. His words to take care of the poor are not addressed to government, they are addressed to us.

- Bryan Fischer

topic: Jesus, Government, Law, Redistribution Of Wealth, Involuntary

It’s not that I want to punish your success. I want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they’ve got a chance for success, too. My attitude is that if the economy’s good for folks from the bottom up, it’s gonna be good for everybody. I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.

- Barack Obama

source: "Obama Fires a ‘Robin Hood’ Warning Shot". nypost.com. October 15, 2008.

topic: Attitude, Thinking, Want, Dumb Things, Redistribution Of Wealth

To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association-the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Wisdom, Father, Exercise, Private Property, Redistribution Of Wealth

Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Bread, Mouths, Labor, Inaugural, Inaugural Address

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

topic: People, Wealth, Economics, Redistribution Of Wealth

Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty.

- P. J. O'Rourke

topic: People, Poverty, Perdition, Redistribution Of Wealth

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

topic: Doe, Employment, Able, Redistribution Of Wealth

.......the poor of the world cannot be made rich by 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. Economic leveling doesn't work. Whether we call it Marxism, Progressive Reform, or Clintonomics, the result is the same slide into the stygian pit. Communists worship Satan; socialists think perdition is a good system run by bad men; and liberals want us to go to hell because it's warm there in the winter.

- P. J. O'Rourke

topic: Running, Winter, Men, Marxism, Redistribution Of Wealth

Climate change policy is about how we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth.

- Ottmar Edenhofer

source: "Climate Talks or Wealth Redistribution Talks?" by Nicolas Loris, www.dailysignal.com. November 19, 2010.

topic: Change, Environmental, Climate, Environmental Policy, Redistribution Of Wealth

Collectivists would have you believe that individualism is merely another word for selfishness, because individualists oppose welfare and other forms of coercive redistribution of wealth, but just the opposite is true. Individualists advocate true charity, which is the voluntary giving of their own money, while collectivists advocate the coercive giving of other people's money; which, of course, is why it is so popular.

- G. Edward Griffin

source: "The Chasm: The Future Is Calling (Part One)". Essay by G. Edward Griffin, 2003.

topic: Believe, Opposites, People, Redistribution Of Wealth

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

topic: Attitude, Government, Engineering, Social Engineering, Personal Freedom

The consequences of inflation are malinvestment, waste, a wanton redistribution of wealth and income, the growth of speculation and gambling, immorality and corruption, disillusionment, social resentment, discontent, upheaval and riots, bankruptcy, increased government controls, and eventual collapse.

- Henry Hazlitt

source: Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.136, Ludwig von Mises Institute

topic: Gambling, Government, Growth, Income Redistribution, Disillusionment

In a sense, George W. Bush has used the tragedy of the terrorist attacks of September 11th and the nightmarish expansion of his idea of a war on terror to overshadow his actual conduct in office on the redistribution of wealth upward through progressive tax cuts that actually penalize the vast majority of the public, and shift their resources to a narrow band at the very, very top.

- Sidney Blumenthal

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: War, Cutting, Ideas, Progressive Tax, Redistribution Of Wealth

But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy...One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy any more.

- Ottmar Edenhofer

source: "IPCC Official: 'Climate Policy Is Redistributing The World's Wealth'". Interview with Bernard Potter, www.thegwpf.com. November 14, 2010.

topic: Environmental, World, Energy, Environmental Policy, Redistribution Of Wealth

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

topic: Believe, Thinking, People, Redistribution Of Wealth

You are talking to a leftist. I believe in the redistribution of wealth and power in the world. I believe in universal hospital care for everyone. I believe that we should not have a single homeless person in the richest country in the world. And I believe that we should not have a C.I.A. that goes around overwhelming governments and assassinating political leaders, working for tight oligarchies around the world to protect the tight oligarchy here at home.

- Abbie Hoffman

topic: Country, Believe, Home, Medicare, Oligarchy

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

topic: Redistribution Of Wealth

Marginalized youth, workers, artists and others are raising serious questions about the violence of inequality and the social order that legitimates it. They are calling for a redistribution of wealth and power - not within the old system, but in a new one in which democracy becomes more than a slogan or a legitimation for authoritarianism and state violence.

- Henry Giroux

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Artist, Order, Democracy, Redistribution Of Wealth, Authoritarianism

From the the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results.

- James Madison

source: The Federalist no. 10 (1788)

topic: Degrees, Different, Kind, Redistribution Of Wealth

[Steven] Lerner said that unions and community organizations are, for all intents and purposes, dead. The only way to achieve their goals, therefore - the redistribution of wealth and the return of '$17 trillion' stolen from the middle class by Wall Street - is to 'destabilize the country.

- Rush Limbaugh

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: Country, Wall, Class, Redistribution Of Wealth

Peace, however, is not merely a gift to be received: it is also a task to be undertaken. In order to be true peacemakers, we must educate ourselves in compassion, solidarity, working together, fraternity, in being active within the community and concerned to raise awareness about national and international issues and the importance of seeking adequate mechanisms for the redistribution of wealth, the promotion of growth, cooperation for development and conflict resolution. 'Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God', as Jesus says in the Sermon on the Mount

- Pope Benedict XVI

topic: Jesus, Blessed, Son, Redistribution Of Wealth, Peacemaker

The people who are working, paying their taxes are put into the system so that affordable housing could be built in neighborhoods that they probably live in that. That they may not want to, they may pay a premium so that they could live where they want to live and you end up with just another massive redistribution of wealth.

- Eric Bolling

topic: People, Pay, Affordable Housing, Redistribution Of Wealth

First of all, developed countries have basically expropriated the atmosphere of the world community. But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy. Obviously, the owners of coal and oil will not be enthusiastic about this. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore...

- Ottmar Edenhofer

source: "UN IPCC Official Admits 'We Redistribute World's Wealth By Climate Policy' 15 Shares". www.newsbusters.org. November 18, 2010.

topic: Country, Oil, Community, Developed Country, Environmental Justice

The basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anti-colonialism, indeed capitalism versus socialism, is already losing its importance. What matters today, the issue which blocks the horizon, is the need for a redistribution of wealth. Humanity will have to address this question, no matter how devastating the consequences may be.

- Frantz Fanon

source: Frantz Fanon (2007). “The Wretched of the Earth”, p.17, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

topic: Block, Issues, What Matters, Redistribution Of Wealth

The need for de-development presents our economists with a major challenge. They must design a stable, low-consumption economy in which there is a much more equitable distribution of wealth than in the present one. Redistribution of wealth both within and among nations is absolutely essential if a decent life is to be provided for every human being.

- John Holdren

source: "White House Science Adviser Advocated 'De-Development' of the United States" by Christopher Neefus, www.cnsnews.com. July 28, 2009.

topic: Design, Challenges, Essentials, Decent Life, Redistribution Of Wealth

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

- Ron Paul

source: Farewell Address to the U.S. Congress, delivered 14 November 2012

topic: Teaching, World, Wealth, Redistribution Of Wealth

[Barack] Obama, for example, he has not given up on cap-and-trade. Now, he has not been able to pass cap-and-trade, but cap-and-trade is all about redistribution of wealth in a global basis - taking money out of this country and giving it to third-world countries on the other end of the ocean. And that is redistribution of wealth in a global basis. It's fundamental Marxism.

- Rafael Cruz

topic: Country, Ocean, Giving, Redistribution Of Wealth, Third World Countries

A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States...De-development means bringing our economic system (especially patterns of consumption) into line with the realities of ecology and the global resource situation...Redistribution of wealth both within and among nations is absolutely essential, if a decent life is to be provided for every human being.

- John Holdren

topic: Mean, Reality, America, Decent Life, Redistribution Of Wealth

Just as the commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' sets a clear limit in order to safeguard the value of human life, today we also have to say 'thou shalt not' to an economy of exclusion and inequality. Such an economy kills. How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points?

- Pope Francis

topic: Elderly, Order, Two, Income Inequality, Income Redistribution

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

topic: Race, Survival, Prison, Redistribution Of Wealth