Quotes about Redistribution
He replied, ‘I tell you that everyone who has will be given more; but the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.
- Luke 19:26
Every man will be equal there and it will be taken from them that have and give to them that have not by the Lord. But
- William Faulkner
A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.
- George Bernard Shaw
Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.
- Ayn Rand
Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.
- Ayn Rand
The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
- Adrian Rogers
According to record, what Hitler actually said in his speeches depended very much upon the audience. In agricultural areas, he pledged tax cuts for farmers and new laws to protect food prices. In working-class neighborhoods, he talked about redistribution of wealth and attacked the high profits generated by business owners. When he appeared before financiers or captains of industry, Hitler focused on his plans to destroy communism and reduce the power of the trade unions.
- Andy Andrews
We must recognize that we can't solve our problems now until there is a radical redistribution of economic and political power.... a radical restructuring of the architecture of American society.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jesus taught that we should give to the poor and support widows, but he never said that we should elect a government that would take money from our neighbor's hand and give it to the poor.
- Jerry Falwell, Jr.
In his book Vision America, Aubrey Malphurs asserted that much of the perceived church growth in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s was actually due primarily to the redistribution of believers, not genuine church growth. He stated, "The problems of the church in the 1980s carry over into the 1990s. The church as a whole continues to experience decline and the unchurched increase."
- Ed Stetzer
Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
- Anonymous
The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
- Adrian Rogers