Quotes About Inequality

Business people, on the other hand, are rewarded for having excess money and are applauded for their efficiency. As this cycle of growing government spending continued, the demand for money increased, and the "tax-the-rich" idea was adjusted to include lower-income levels, down to the very people who voted it in, the poor and the middle class.

the idea of "take-from-the-rich" backfired on the very people who voted it in.

Why do you like Hugh better? Because he is a Viscount?' 'Well, that's one reason,' I admitted, without any false shame. Respect for degree was in my blood and I didn't think of it as snobbery.

Because America is not a democracy, it's not a place of opportunity, he knows, if you can't choose to be white.

Sloth is the natural result of unrewarded hard work among the poor, reason enough for them to be prickly.

When folks get rich all of a sudden it makes them feel sort of guilty to be around folks who've stayed poor.

No rich man can walk through the eye of a needle.

The food could climb the social ladder but sometimes the cook was left behind.

big house to the slave quarters was nothing short of miraculous as far as

there really is no such thing as equality, just different levels of inequality, and how hard are you willing to fight for it all? Fuck. Did

Most of his time appeared to be spent bumming cigarettes from people whose annual income was about a fifth of his own.

They yell at me because I can't see what they see. Nobody can explain to me why my eyes work different than theirs. Nobody can make it stop.

The laws of the universe dictate that for every positive action, there is an unequal and sucky reaction.

Look at the stupid, poor people. Look at the stupid, poor, burned-out people. Look at the stupid, poor, burned-out people, look at their dead baby. It's death porn for the masses.

Maybe that was why I wanted to slap so many of the zombies; they had no idea how freaking lucky they were. Lucky and ignorant, happy little rich kids who believed in Santa Claus and the tooth fairy and thought that life was supposed to be fair.

Rich people scorn the way the poor buy lottery tickets, but what would you pay for an hour of untainted hope, of happiness unfettered? If the ticket had my mother's name on it I'd dance across minefields for the chance.

Oh, that's my fault,' I told Goodheart. 'I hate haggling over a pittance. It always seems so rude. And these people have so little, compared to us.' I was interested to hear the committed Communist sniff in disgust at my willingness to share the wealth.

Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.

It is unbelievably sad and ironic that the first victims of global warming are almost all going to come from places that are producing virtually none of the problem.

I knew the poor, I knew the hideous death they die, when famine lays its bleak hand on the door; I knew the rich, sated with merriment, who yet are sad.

It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.

The argument advanced by the supporters of the theory of hereditary transmission does not furnish a satisfactory explanation of the cause of the inequalities and diversities of the universe.

Whereas all humans have approximately the same life expectancy the life expectancy of stars varies as much as from that of a butterfly to that of an elephant.

What is economics? A science invented by the upper class in order to acquire the fruits of the labor of the underclass