Economics is not politics. One is a science, concerned…

We must work together to ensure the equitable distribution of wealth, opportunity and power in our society.

— Nelson Mandela

The State is competent to assign duties and draw the line between good and evil only in its immediate sphere. Beyond the limits of…

— Lord Acton

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…

— John Holdren

I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass…

— Clarence Darrow

The uneven distribution of wealth in the world is due to the uneven distribution of capitalism.

— Johan Norberg

The massive upward distribution of wealth engineered by our political class over the last few decades has solidified the plutocratic control of the rule-making…

— Bill Moyers

At the beginning of this marvelous era it was natural to expect, and it was expected, that laborsaving inventions would lighten the toil and…

— Henry George

Moving to a cooperatively organized enterprise is one of the best ways to really do something about unequal distribution of wealth.

— Richard D. Wolff

The real scientific study of the distribution of wealth has, we must confess, scarcely begun. The conventional academic study of the so-called theory of…

— Irving Fisher

As mass production has to be accompanied by mass consumption, mass consumption, in turn, implies a distribution of wealth ... to provide men with…

— Marriner Stoddard Eccles

The distribution of wealth is even more unequal than that of income. ...The wealthiest 5% of American households held 54% of all wealth reported…

— Janet Yellen

If our economic system is to survive, there has to be a better distribution of wealth ... we can't have a system where some…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable…

— John Maynard Keynes

It is a mistake - as so many over-centralized socialist societies have discovered - to try to eliminate money as an incentive. Money is…

— Philip Slater

Peoples have come to experience that political structures and divisions of power are not immutable. Nor will they perceive the distribution of wealth and…

— Bob Hawke