Quotes About Inequality

There are only two classes in society: those who get more than they earn, and those who earn more than they get.

It is untrue that some are poor because others are rich. If an order of society in which incomes were equal replaced the capitalist order, everyone would become poorer.

Civilization, or that which is so called, has operated two ways to make one part of society more affluent and the other part more wretched than would have been the lot of either in a natural state.

Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number.

The real bias of the media is not to the left or to the right, but to the thin strata of economic elites at the top of our society.

A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to spiritual sterility.

I wonder how it is we have come to this place in our society where art and nature are spoke in terms of what is optional, the pastime and concern of the elite?

In America, we are living in a society which is moving more and more toward an oligarchic form of society where government is dominated heavily by big-money interests.

The people who do not get jobs are often the most vulnerable in our society, and joblessness is a terrible plight for anyone who suffers from it.

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

I think our biggest problem in society is we're headed more and more toward a two-tiered society. That is, creating welfare for the wealthy and destroying opportunities for the disadvantaged.

In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

In a capitalistic society the losers slaved for the winners and you have to have more losers than winners.

The higher the coefficient of inequality (Gini coefficient) in a society, the worse things tend to be for those at the bottom.

The rich don't have to kill to eat. They employ people, as they call it. The rich don't do evil themselves. They pay. People do all they can to please them, and everybody's happy.

A big hole in a poor child's shoe is the simplest evidence to condemn the society he lives in.

The classes that wash most are those that work least.

How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?

The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.

You have seen after Katrina just what failures there are in American Society.

Unfortunately, in our society, power means the ability to dominate and oppress.

It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.

For a society as abundant and as blessed as ours, to have as many disadvantaged children as we have does not bode well for our long-term economic future.