Quotes About Inequality

America doesn't respect anything but money. What our people need is a few millionaires.

Hungry men have no respect for law, authority or human life.

...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.

Men are born equal but they are also born different.

Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible.

The poor man's price of admittance to the favor of the rich is his self-respect.

The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.

So I really would like to see both parties respond to the poor with greater commitment. But I've got to tell you, the Democrats, I feel, are doing a better job in that respect than Republicans are.

Lap-dogs and blood-hounds enjoy the greatest respect at court; house-dogs and no dogs at all are not even considered.

I think that the poorest of the poor... look up to wealthy and successful Indians with some degree of respect and pride.

The great irony is that women are accused of making romantic comedies, as if it's a bad thing, but Marc Webb makes a romantic comedy and he gets 'Spider-Man.' Are you kidding me? You cannot win.

You see, our hard-earned saving are always going to be taken away from us by someone - whether we have any or not.

Only the smaller fish pay for the goverment's face-lift. The big ones - they just become bigger and fatter.

I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em? More power to 'em.

You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly deprived of nearly all the blessings of the intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind.... Cain slew his brother. Cain might have been killed, and that would have put a termination to that line of human beings. This was not to be, and the Lord put a mark upon him, which is the flat nose and black skin.

Unequal lives give rise to unequal dreams.

Each year the US population spends more money on diets than the amount needed to feed all the hungry people in the rest of the world.

Starving children have no liberties.

Today, the richest 1 percent own half the world's wealth. Even more alarmingly, the richest one hundred people together own more than the poorest four billion.

In the future, however, we may see real gaps in physical and cognitive abilities opening between an upgraded upper class and the rest of society.

Ever since the French Revolution, people throughout the world have gradually come to see both equality and individual freedom as fundamental values. Yet the two values contradict each other. Equality can be ensured only by curtailing the freedoms of those who are better off.

Money comes to money, and poverty to poverty. Education comes to education, and ignorance to ignorance. Those once victimised by history are likely to be victimised yet again. And those whom history has privileged are more likely to be privileged again.

Ordinary people may not understand artificial intelligence and biotechnology, but they can sense that the future is passing them by.

If data becomes concentrated in too few hands, humankind will split into different species.