Quotes About Inequality

Without the world noticing, the locusts of common, criminal violence are right now ravaging the lives and dreams of billions of our poorest neighbors.

You are probably not regularly being threatened with being enslaved, imprisoned, beaten, raped, or robbed. But if you were among the world's poorest billions, you would be.

I wonder what children whose parents have money think about in their spare time.

The truth is this: The rich will rule even at a place like Oberlin, where their kind is technically forbidden. They will simply invert the power structure to suit their needs. They will come out on top no matter what. Stuyvesant was hard but hopeful; Oberlin, on the other hand, reminds me yet again how the world works. I guess that's why they call it an education.

This country is so stupid. Only spoiled white people could let something so good get so bad. I

Because rich people were excused from the suffering of the world, they had to invent their own more elaborate and personalized forms of suffering and then to inflict baroque versions of that stunted inferiority onto others.

All love is socioeconomic. It's the gradients in status that make arousal possible.

The next eleven floors held a single apartment per floor and belonged to the principals of hedge funds and private equity firms and one Argentine model and her soccer player boyfriend who spent no more than a week out of the year in New York.

Like a long-haul jet, their building was divided into economy, business, and first.

It is true that the church must be in many places and with many people, but it is the poor who will reveal to the church—dramatically and poignantly—the nature of its heart and mission.

I have traveled far, and I have observed that poor people usually have more wit and more virtue than rich ones. He smiled at that. You are kind. But our people have so much wit and virtue now that they may die.

Yet from the wise take this for common sense That to the poor all times are out of joint Therefore beware of reaching such a point.

la honradez y la buena vida siempre andan disociados, cuando se trata de gente pobre.

Woyzeck Us poor people. Yes, money, money. You see, Captain, if you have no money. Try raising someone like me in this world on morals alone. Man is also flesh and blood.

One cannot speak of an injustice of nature in the unequal distribution of possessions and resources, for nature is not free and is therefore neither just nor unjust.

This nigger girl scared for white bwana.

Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.

HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.

In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

Morals are a luxury of the rich.

The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes.