Quotes about Inequality

They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the earth; they push the needy out of their way. A man and his father have relations with the same girl and so profane My holy name.

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your husbands, “Bring us more to drink.”

Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.

Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,

Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!”

For everyone who has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. But the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.

The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have Me.

He has filled the hungry with good things, but has sent the rich away empty.

And a beggar named Lazarus lay at his gate, covered with sores

But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who oppress you and drag you into court?

so that you may eat the flesh of kings and commanders and mighty men, of horses and riders, of everyone slave and free, small and great.”

You need rich people in your society not so much because in spending their money they create jobs, but because of what they have to do to get rich. I'm not talking about the trickle-down effect here. I'm not saying that if you let Henry Ford get rich, he'll hire you as a waiter at his next party. I'm saying that he'll make you a tractor to replace your horse.