Building Quote by Ronald Reagan

“In an affluent society there ought to be an income floor under every man below which society will not allow him to go –…

— Pierre Berton

Of all the ills that our poor ... society is heir to, the focal one, it seems to me, from which so much of…

— Barbara Tuchman

Highly unequal societies are morally defective because they get to be that way through the exploitation by the clever and well-positioned ones of the…

— Catherine Wilson

We have no paupers ... The great mass of our [United States] population is of laborers; our rich, who can live without labor, either…

— Thomas Jefferson

We live increasingly in a world of haves and have-nots, of gated communities next to ghettos, of extreme poverty and unbelievable riches. Some enjoy…

— Noreena Hertz

The utopian schemes of leveling and a community of goods, are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in the crown.…

— Samuel Adams

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

— Henry Van Dyke

“Perhaps every society is a utopia when you fail to peel up all the layers and look at what's underneath”

— Kameron Hurley

“We seldom consider how much of our lives we must render in return for some object we barely want, seldom need, buy only because…

— Ferenc Mate

“I believe that at the very root of our humanity is a passion to create value with heart, to work alongside others who care,…

— Nilofer Merchant

In this world it is possible to achieve great material wealth, to live an opulent life. But a life built upon those things alone…

— Cesar Chavez

Why do people in this age think their own impoverished lives must be the norm of the universe?

— Poul Anderson