Quotes About Inequality

Industry is the ceaseless piracy of the rich against the poor.

America is particularly boastful of her great power, her enormous national wealth. Poor America, of what avail is all her wealth, if the individuals comprising the nation are wretchedly poor? If they live in squalor, in filth, in crime, with hope and joy gone, a homeless, soilless army of human prey.

The guilt of these homicides lies upon every man and woman who, intentionally or by cold indifference, helps to keep up social conditions that drive human beings to despair.

I believed in God; but when I saw so great an inequality between men, I acknowledged that it was not God who created man, but man who created God.

steal from the rich and give to the poor. Well, maybe just steal from the rich.

He could be like a modern-day Robin Hood: steal from the rich and give to the poor. Well, maybe just steal from the rich. One step at a time.

I see good people dying of cold and hunger.' Well, don't you see wicked people dying of luxury, pride and excess?

Quienes perciben con mayor intensidad el impacto de la globalización son quienes menos se benefician de ella.

The periodic famines, the burden of labour which made men old at forty and women at thirty, were acts of God; they only became acts for which men were held responsible in times of abnormal hardship or revolution.

There is thus a conservatism of the destitute as profound as the conservatism of the privileged, and the former is as much a factor in the perpetuation of a social order as the latter.

The rabid extremist in present-day Asia is usually a man of some education who has a horror of manual labor and who develops a mortal hatred for a social order that denies him a position of command.

Keep a woman broke, keep her under control. Give her just enough to get by. She won't starve to death, but she'll never be able to afford to leave. That's from the handbook on how to be a pimp.

In America the rich man's objective never will be to make the poor man rich.

Which is why, from the Inca Empire to the Soviet Union, extractive societies have been prone to collapse. Power naturally flows to the top. We've established that. But where power flows to the top and stays there, without correction or recirculation, a society is likely to die a catastrophic death.

Public lotteries are essentially regressive taxes imposed on the poor.

Capitalism puts things (capital) higher than life (labor). Power follows from possession, not from activity.

Polly was all too aware that much of her time on holiday would be spent doing the laundry and the cooking and the child-care and all the other chores that back in London would be shared with her cleaning lady. A holiday with Theo and the children represented two weeks of domestic and maternal drudgery.

So the much criticized food subsidy and employment guarantee for the poor and the unemployed cost about 1.14 per cent of GDP, whereas the cost of subsidizing electricity, fuel and fertilizers for the relatively better off is minimally 2.63 per cent, more than twice what is allocated to feed the poor and provide employment to the unemployed.

Silence is a powerful enemy of social justice.

It is the interactive presence of these two features of deprivation – being low class and being female – that can massively impoverish women from the less privileged classes.

Unaimed opulence, in general, is a roundabout, undependable, and wasteful way of improving the living standards of the poor.

Poverty is not a respecter of man.

Kral?na kar?? hakl? olan bir vekil, kocas?na kar?? hakl? olan bir kad?n, subay?na kar?? hakl? olan bir nefer; bunlar?n hepsi iki kat cezaya çarpt?r?lmaz m?? Zay?flar için hakl? olmak suçtur.

Ce qui a eu pour effet d'accentuer fortement les inégalités sociales, au point de créer une petite caste d'hypermilliardaires, chacun d'eux plus riche que des nations entières.