„Keynesianism for the rich countries and monetarism for the poor“

„This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.“

—  John F. Kennedy 35th president of the United States of America 1917 - 1963

1963, Third State of the Union Address

„Rich countries have 'kicked away the ladder' by forcing free-market, free-trade policies on poor countries.“

—  Ha-Joon Chang, livro Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism

Fonte: Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism (2008), Ch. 2, Learning the right lessons from history, p. 61
Contexto: Rich countries have 'kicked away the ladder' by forcing free-market, free-trade policies on poor countries. Already established countries do not want more competitors emerging through the nationalistic policies they themselves successfully used in the past.

„The great question for our time is, how to make sure that the continuing scientific revolution brings benefits to everybody rather than widening the gap between rich and poor. To lift up poor countries, and poor people in rich countries, from poverty, to give them a chance of a decent life, technology is not enough. Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.“

—  Freeman Dyson theoretical physicist and mathematician 1923

Progress In Religion (2000)

„…If you could ever get the poor to vote in this country, you'd have socialism. But people want to think rich. That's the genius of the capitalist system: either you're rich, or you want to be, or you think you ought to be.“

—  John Updike, livro Rabbit at Rest

Rabbit at Rest (1990)

„It's funny, sometimes American journalists talk about how bad a country is, that people are lining up for food. That is a good thing! In other countries people don't line up for food: the rich get the food and the poor starve to death.“

—  Bernie Sanders American politician, senator for Vermont 1941

As quoted in "When Bernie Sanders Thought Castro and the Sandinistas Could Teach America a Lesson" http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/28/when-bernie-sanders-thought-castro-and-the-sandinistas-could-teach-america-a-lesson.html by Michael Moynihan, The Daily Beast (28 February 2016)
1980s

„It has been said that America is a country for the poor, not for the rich. There would be more correctness in saying it is the country for both, where the latter have a relish for free government; but, proportionally, more for the former than for the latter.“

—  James Madison 4th president of the United States (1809 to 1817) 1751 - 1836

1820s, Letter to F. Corbin (1820)

„Poor and working people in this country are sent to kill poor and working people in other country to make the rich richer. Without racism, soldiers would realize that they have more in common with the Iraqi people than they do with the billionaires who send us to war.“

—  Michael Prysner American anti-war political activist 1983

"Our Real Enemies"

„Borrowing to build factories is not the economic equivalent of borrowing to buy television sets, and it’s amazing just how few modern economists can see the difference…Borrowing to produce is the way poor countries become rich. Borrowing to consume is the way rich countries become poor. A vivid example of the latter is the stream of container ships unloading at U. S. ports and going back empty because we have nothing to ship.“

—  Peter D. Schiff American entrepreneur, economist and author 1963

Quotes from Crash Proof (2006)

„That's where all the foreign aid (which might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries) went as well. The U. S. government still squanders about $20 billion a year this way, and European governments spend proportionally even more; it's all gone straight down a giant rathole.“

—  Douglas Casey

Opportunity in Mozambique http://www.escapeartist.com/Offshore/Doing_Business_Overseas/Mozambique/ (1996)

„AIDS respects no national boundaries; spares no race or religion; devastates men and women, rich and poor.
No country can ignore this crisis. Fighting AIDS is an urgent calling — because every life, in every land, has value and dignity.“

—  Laura Bush First Lady of the United States from 2001 to 2009 1946

Remarks at United Nations General Assembly High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS (June 2, 2006) http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2006/06/20060602-2.html

„The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.“

—  G. K. Chesterton, livro The Flying Inn

The Flying Inn (1914)

„I was also pained to notice an institution which I certainly did not expect to find in this country – I mean caste. Your rich people are really Brahmins, and your poor people are Sudras.“

—  Keshub Chunder Sen Indian academic 1838 - 1884

Speech at Hannover Square Rooms on the occasion of a Soiree held to bid him farewell on 12th September 1870.

„In a composite nation like ours, as before the law, there should be no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no white, no black, but common country, common citizenship, equal rights and a common destiny.“

—  Frederick Douglass American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman 1818 - 1895

„Countries are poor not because their people are lazy; their people are 'lazy' because they are poor.“

—  Ha-Joon Chang, livro Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism

Prologue, p. 18
Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism (2008)

„Inflation and Employment in capitalist countries, in my own view, the change is the other way around: the constraints on the pressure of demand tend to be excessive, with the result that unemployment is much greater than can be justified by the needs of resource-allocation, and the rate of economic growth is appreciably less than it could be.
The main reason for this is that the distribution of power and, ultimately, the distribution of incomes, changes in favor of labor the faster the economy grows and the nearer it is to full employment, and over a longer period it changes in favor of capital the greater the volume of unemployment. This is the real reason why the continuance of Keynesian policies after the war led to a recrudescence of long-discredited ideas that go by the name of “monetarism.” The main attraction of monetarism was not its intellectual simplicity— inflation is a matter of the money supply, period— but that it elevated the fear of inflation to the unique position which could not be justified by the experience of numerous countries who habitually suffer from it.“

—  Nicholas Kaldor British/Hungarian economist 1908 - 1986

Nicholas Kaldor, Economics without Equilibrium (1985), p.37-38

„Take care of the poor people of my country.“

—  Abdul Sattar Edhi Pakistani philanthropist, social activist, ascetic and humanitarian 1928 - 2016

Edhi’s dying words, as quoted (with translation from original words in Urdu language) by IlmFeed ( July 9, 2016 http://ilmfeed.com/abdul-sattar-edhi-a-hero-for-the-poor-and-destitute/) and in Gulf Times by Kamran Rehmat ( July 11, 2016 http://www.gulf-times.com/story/502146/The-beloved-distributor-of-hope/), retrieved July 22, 2016

„If a country can only be rich by running a successful race for low wages, I should be disposed to say at once, perish such riches!“

—  Thomas Robert Malthus, Principles of Political Economy

Book I, Chapter III, Of the Rent of Land, Section IX, p. 214
Principles of Political Economy (Second Edition 1836)

„Serenity is impossible to a poor man in a cold country“

—  George Orwell English author and journalist 1903 - 1950

Review of Hunger and Love by Lionel Britton, in The Adelphi (April 1931)
Contexto: To the well-fed it seems cowardly to complain of tight boots, because the well-fed live in a different world-a world where, if your boots are tight, you can change them; their minds are not warped by petty discomfort. But below a certain income the petty crowds the large out of existence; one's preoccupation is not with art or religion, but with bad food, hard beds, drudgery and the sack. Serenity is impossible to a poor man in a cold country and even his active thoughts will go in more or less sterile complaint.

„I am a poor man from a poor country, so I have to be entertaining every second.“

—  Nam June Paik American video art pioneer 1932 - 2006

Attributed in: Yuji Takahashi " For Paik http://www.suigyu.com/yuji/en-text/paik.html," exhibition catalogue “ Bye-bye Nam June Paik http://www.watarium.co.jp/exhibition/0606_paik_en.html” at Watarium Museum, 2006.
1970s