Quotes About Inequality

Men's ignorance makes the pot boil for priests.

Rich men accumulate money; the poor accumulate years. #RealityofCharity

The court is most merciful when the accused is most rich. #Satyamevjayate

The court is most merciful when the accused is most rich.

The devil laughs when the poor donates to the rich. #CVirusTruth

The devil laughs when the poor donates to the rich.

The full person does not understand the needs of the hungry. #Lockdown

The pleasures of the mighty are the tears of the poor #pandemicreality

The pope eats peasants, gulps gentlemen, and voids monks.

The rich devour the poor, and the devil devours the rich and so both are devoured.

The rich man makes mistakes and the poor men get the blame.

The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food. #HotspotDrama

Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor.

Engineers, scientists, and doctors merely exploit their capital—their diplomas—as middle-class employers exploit a factory, or as nobles used to exploit their titles of nobility.

We cry shame on the feudal baron who forbade the peasant to turn a clod of earth unless he surrendered to his lord a fourth of his crop. We called those the barbarous times. But if the forms have changed, the relations have remained the same, and the worker is forced, under the name of free contract, to accept feudal obligations. For, turn where he will, he can find no better conditions. Everything has become private property, and he must accept, or die of hunger. The

We cry shame on the feudal baron who forbade the peasant to turn a clod of earth unless he surrendered to his lord a fourth of his crop. We called those the barbarous times. But if the forms have changed, the relations have remained the same, and the worker is forced, under the name of free contract, to accept feudal obligations. For, turn where he will, he can find no better conditions. Everything has become private property, and he must accept, or die of hunger.

What fatherland can the international banker and rag-picker have in common?

Nine-tenths of the great fortunes made in the United States are (as Henry George has shown in his Social Problems) the result of knavery on a large scale, assisted by the state.

Equality in all things, the synonym of equity, this is anarchism in very deed. It is not only against the abstract trinity of law, religion, and authority that we declare war. By becoming anarchists we declare war against all this wave of deceit, cunning, exploitation, depravity, vice—in a word, inequality—which they have poured into all our hearts. We declare war against their way of acting, against their way of thinking.

Society is thus bound to remain divided into two hostile camps, and in such conditions freedom is a vain word.

If all the men and women in the countryside had their daily bread assured, and their daily needs already satisfied, who would work for our capitalist at a wage of half a crown a day, while the commodities one produces in a day sell in the market for a crown or more?

The working people cannot purchase with their wages the wealth which they have produced

But capital goes wherever there are men, poor enough to be exploited.

In fact, we know full well today that it is futile to speak of liberty as long as economic slavery exists.