Quotes About Inequality

Entertainment can be a more powerful driver than poverty.

Poverty leads to hardship and failure.

Poverty is an artificial, external imposition on a human being; it is not innate in a human being. And since it is external, it can be removed. It is just a question of doing it.

To blame the existence of al Qaeda on poverty like Egypt's is a slur on the poor.

The hard part that I had to go through in life, period, is living in poverty and not being able to get what I want.

Many girls do not go to school because of poverty.

I just don't think that the differences you make by donating to a museum or an art gallery really compare to the differences you make by donating to the charities that fight global poverty.

There are cultural reasons, economic competitiveness reasons. There are a lot of reasons why people are in poverty. The difference today is that increasingly they are in perpetual poverty.

I've still got family members living below the poverty line in New York.

Extreme poverty is extremely dangerous.

I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.

Appalachia, my state, eastern Kentucky, has a large amount of poverty.

Diamonds are a key component in the campaign to make poverty history.

I know some of the richest and most powerful men in the world, and they're jealous of me.

All I know is that Conservatives aren't interested in helping anybody but themselves get richer.

The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.

It so happens, in Malaysia, the people who are in a way not doing as well constitute the majority of the people - the Bumiputeras.

America has been living on the back of the whole world! If you take how much energy we consume, like, 20 percent of the world's energy is consumed in this country. Where do you think it comes from, and what are the sacrifices of those countries?

When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.

You can't write a screenplay if you've been doing a zero-hours contract. Which means that the people who write drama, the people who commission dramas, and the people who direct dramas all come from a small circle of society.

There are rich people everywhere, and yet they don't contribute to the growth of their countries.

Dog whistles about women who want handouts are simply an acceptable way to say that women are not worth as much as the men who must dominate the government. At the heart of Movement Conservatism is the conviction that America belongs to elite men alone.

In a way, I think the whole business is pretty corrupt. It's like anything else where people make a lot of money - it's really hard for the little guy.

I'm against bureaucratization, corruption, seeing the same people in power.