Distribution Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr

It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and…

— William James

If exclusive privileges were not granted, and if the financial system would not tend to concentrate wealth, there would be few great fortunes and…

— Denis Diderot

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,…

— P. J. O'Rourke

We cannot live without trade. A society can neither advance nor improve without excess of disposable income. This excess can only be amassed through…

— David Mamet

No one is kept in poverty by a shortness in the supply of riches, there is more than enough for all.

— Wallace D. Wattles

In financial terms, my sense is that the distribution of wealth, unequal as it is, is self-perpetuating, and, especially in a linked and accelerating…

— Pico Iyer

Today, we live in a world of incredible wealth and technology, alongside the most horrendous conditions of poverty, war and environmental crisis. This is…

— Kshama Sawant

In the United States today we have the most unequal wealth and income distribution of any major country on earth - worse than at…

— Bernie Sanders

We live in a world where economic positions - income and wealth - are very unevenly distributed, and this leads to the widespread persistence…

— Thomas Pogge

An economic system can remain viable only so long as society has mechanisms to counter abuses of either state or market power and the…

— David Korten

In a system of capitalism, as people's wealth rises, the financial incentive to serve them rises. As their wealth falls, the financial incentive to…

— Bill Gates