Quotes About Inequality

Inequality has now reached levels not seen since the so-called Gilded Age of the 1890s.

And the unequal accumulation of wealth by the elites continued.

But early in the twenty-first century it became clear that the planet was incapable of sustaining everyone alive at Western levels, and at that point the richest pulled away into their fortress mansions, bought the governments or disabled them from action against them, and bolted their doors to wait it out until some poorly theorized better time

and indeed many of those harmed often vote for politicians who will increase their relative impoverishment. Thus the power of hegemony: we may be poor but at least we're patriots!

The one percent get nasty when their assets are threatened.

If one percent of the humans alive controlled everyone's work, and took far more than their share of the benefits of that work, while also blocking the project of equality and sustainability however they could, that project would become more difficult. This would go without saying, except that it needs saying.

When you deal with naked power from an inferior position, perspectives get distorted.

Yoksul ayd?n, zengin ayd?ndan çok daha kuvvetli görür.(s.128)

She however practiced discrimination without even realizing that she was doing so when it came to the untouchables. She would not allow the girl who swept the floor at home to enter her kitchen. Once when she did by mistake, I heard my mother shouting at her endlessly while washing the kitchen floor with buckets of water, which ironically were brought by the same girl from a nearby well.

Det behöver knappast sägas att Marx tanke med en grundläggande indelning i två klasser utelämnade ett stort antal människor. ... Marx föddes i en tysk-judisk medelklassfamilj i Preussen. ... Var passade Marx själv in?

Emerald City. Not all the people could go to congratulate

poor people are often obliged to take chances that rich ones are spared.

Educating the masses was intended only to improve the relationship between the top and the bottom of society. Not for changing the nature of the relationship.

The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.

Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.

Money can be more of a barrier between people than language or race or religion.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.

To connect is to dissolve the imaginary pyramids of artificial privilege.

Religion is the opium of the poor

Anyhow, I say, the God I been praying and writing to is a man. And act just like all the other mens I know. Trifling, forgitful, and lowdown.

The white folks like for us to be religious, then they can do what they want to with us.

One tech-related concern with religion is that it appears to be a positive feedback loop to the accelerating rich-poor gap, as the disenfranchised opt out of modernity.