Quotes About Inequality

Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.

In a country which had accepted caste distinctions for many centuries, inequality had become an inborn mental concept.

There is no crime in anyone's blood any more than there is goodness in the blood of others. Criminals are not born. They are made by hunger, want and injustice.

Being poor is not an indication of potential or worth. It's a lack of resources.

Nina sniffed, shifting her shoulders to look at the sky through the branches. She's a sweet girl, but poor. Ire pricked through me, and the last of his charisma shredded. Being poor is not an indication of potential or worth. It's a lack of resources.

Suddenly I felt vastly underdressed. Hell, even the woman dressed down as a hobo had diamonds on.

problem with which this book concludes are as much

In capitalist society, where the future of the younger generations depends on their parents' purse, they cannot avoid falling victim to social inequality and social evils. Due to the aggression and intervention of the imperialists and the plunder of the exploiter class, many of the young generation throughout the world lose their lives or are maimed by war, social conflict, disease and hunger or they wander about the streets, committing crimes and degenerating.

We've been paying a fraction of what things really cost to make, but meanwhile the planet, and the workers who made the stuff, take the unpaid costs right in the teeth.

Efficiency was just a measurement of how fast money moved from the poor to the rich. We prefer the opposite of efficiency, which is to say, justice.

Efficiency, n. The speed and frictionlessness with which money moves from the poor to the rich.

Capital itself is simply the useful residue of the work of past laborers, and it could belong to everyone as well as to a few.

The so-called risk of the capitalist is merely one of the many privileges of capital

Possibly some of the richest two percent of the world's population have decided to give up on the pretense that "progress" or "development" or "prosperity" can be achieved for all eight billion of the world's people.

That is what capitalism is—a version of feudalism in which capital replaces land, and business leaders replace kings.

She recalled hearing how after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, they had built prison camps faster than medical facilities. They had expected riots and so had put people of color in jail preemptively. But that was back in the twentieth century, in the dark ages, the age of fascisms both home and abroad. Since

It's amazing how little you need to keep starving people strung along.

But at this point the four hundred richest people on the planet owned half the planet's wealth, and the top one percent owned fully eighty percent of the world's wealth. For them it wasn't so bad.

And yet the economy insisted on a minimum of five percent unemployment, to create the proper "wage pressure." Millions of people who wanted jobs went unhired and therefore couldn't afford a home, therefore suffered from "food insecurity," so that businesses could keep wages low. These people.

Also, the two billion poorest people on the planet still lack access to basics like toilets, housing, food, health care, education, and so on. This means that fully one-quarter of humanity, enough to equal the entire human population of the year 1960, is immiserated in ways that the poorest people of the feudal era or the Upper Paleolithic were not.

The rich, being people too, doing all they could to cope with the night sweats and zombie terrors of making fourteen hundred times as much money as the people working for them, made

when you are a small minority and you own the majority's wealth, security is naturally a primary consideration.

Rent goes to people who are not creators of value, but predators on the creation and exchange of value.

The three richest people in the world possess more financial assets than all the people in the forty-eight poorest countries added together. The wealthiest one percent of the human population owns more than the bottom seventy percent. And