Quotes About Inequality

It was all very pleasant and balmy, supremely beautiful and languid, if you were white, were rich, and turned a blind eye to the black population expiring in the canebrakes.

William's imprudent decision figured importantly in the enormous disparity in wealth that developed between the two brothers.

Rockefeller felt no discomfort at being surrounded by humble people

Radicalism usually prospers in the gap between rising expectations and declining opportunities.

Bin Laden señalaba..«¿Cómo podéis pedirle a la gente que ahorre energía cuando todo el mundo puede ver vuestros espléndidos palacios iluminados noche y día? —preguntaba—. ¿No tenemos derecho a preguntaros, oh rey, adónde ha ido a parar todo el dinero? No os molestéis en responder: todos saben cuántos sobornos y comisiones han acabado en vuestros bolsillos.»

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.'" Alice

People that thin are usually rich. We live in strange times. Poor people are fat, and rich people are thin.

They're trying to carve gaps in society that are too big to bridge.

Frenchman Honoré de Balzac wrong when he wrote, 'Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and that's good news for the bodyguard business.

don't really care about the little guy. I just hate the big guy. I hate big smug people who think they can get away with things.

Women have to work twice as hard, to get half the credit.

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

Balzac wrong when he wrote, 'Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

It seems that in the United States the one thing you can count on is that even during a depression, the rich get richer.

Some] Americans are generally incapable of perceiving class differences among blacks and are quick to ascribe antisocial underclass behavior to all African Americans.

Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

We unfortunately seem to be unconsciously biased against those in society who come out on the bottom. We

If work really were such a good thing, then the rich would surely have found a way to keep it for themselves. HAITIAN PROVERB

But the rope is still more horrible when it forms the noose around the necks of weak and ignorant people.

Probably no country has ever had as large a shift in the distribution of wealth [as what we've seen in the U.S. in the last 30 years] without having gone through a revolution or losing a major war.

Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.

No one asks how or what I am doing. They could not care less. We're all looking glasses, we girls, existing only to reflect their images back to them as they'd like to be seen. Hollow vessels of girls to be rinsed of our own ambitions, wants, and opinions, just waiting to be filled with the cool, tepid water of gracious compliance. A fissure forms in the vessel. I'm cracking open.

They have money and position and Ann has none.It's amazing how often you can be right as long as you have those two things working in your favor.