Quotes About Inequality

Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are, and should be, open to all.

Unfortunately, only a small number of patients with peptic ulcer are financially able to make a pet of an ulcer.

There are too many stars in some places and not enough in others.

I stare at the long, almost elegant thinness of the wrist bone jutting out from a heap of flesh and cloth. All that separates us, that poor woman and me, is an accident of birth.

The future is already here - it's just not evenly distributed.

If the only option you leave poor people with is to resort to violence in order to survive, they'll do just that. And there are lots more poor people in this world than there are rich ones.

By far the most significant consequence of "selfish capitalism" (Thatch/Blatcherism) has been a startling increase in the incidence of mental illness in both children and adults since the 1970s.

The money is the only source of smile for the poor.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

I believe our society has fell into a pyramid system where there's people relegated to the bottom of that pyramid and there's people that feel like they're entitled to the top of that pyramid.

Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.

The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.

A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable

A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting.

If this is a Great Society, I'd hate to see a bad one.

You judge a society by the decency of living of the weakest

Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.

The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.

Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich -- that is the democracy of capitalist society.

There never has yet existed a wealthy and civilized society in which one portion of the community did not, in point of fact, live on the labor of the other.

Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.

The employment of children is doing more to fill prisons, insane asylums, almshouses, reformatories, slums, and gin shops than all the efforts of reformers are doing to improve society.

Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.

I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.