Accelerate Quote by Noam Chomsky

The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration varies (other…

— Will Durant

In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability…

— Will Durant

Wealth has more and more increased, and at the same time gathered itself more and more into masses, strangely altering the old relations, and…

— Thomas Carlyle

Income inequality matters more on a day-to-day basis. Wealth matters more for political influence.

— Thomas Pogge

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

— Robert Kiyosaki

We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view…

— Will Durant

We in the West have arranged our institutions to prevent the concentration of political power. … But we have failed utterly to prevent the…

— Matthew Crawford

Either wealth is much increased, or moderation is much decayed.

— George Herbert

Those who want to "spread the wealth" almost invariably seek to concentrate the power. It happens too often, and in too many different countries…

— Thomas Sowell

Research suggests that large divisions of income and wealth weaken demand and generate economic imbalances that create instability and undermine growth.

— Victor Ponta

Economic and social misery increases in direct proportion to the size and power of the central government of a nation or state.

— Kirkpatrick Sale

The concern that I have is that, as wealth continues to concentrate in the hands of a few, economic inequality grows, and power also…

— Jane Mayer