Quotes About Inequality

the Poor Men of Lyons

the poor were duped into fighting to defend the privileges of the rich.

Under Big Government, the ruling class get power and perks,...but others among the ruled class just get unruly.

How did the age-old equation that poor equals thin and rich equals fat change so that now our working poor are huge and slow-moving and only the wealthy can afford the personal trainers, liposuction, and extended spa treatments required, it seems, to be thin?

Despite our ridiculously hypocritical attitudes toward immigration, we demand that Mexicans cook a large percentage of the food we eat, grow the ingredients we need to make that food, clean our houses, mow our lawns, wash our dishes, look after our children.

There were Hoover blankets, the newspapers used by the destitute to ward off the cold; Hoover flags, pockets empty of money; and Hoovervilles, the shantytowns of the homeless.

Then in this country a man is to be punished or not, according to his ability to fee a lawyer!

The so-called Conservative, the conscientious, philanthropic Conservative, seeing this, and being surely convinced that such inequalities are of divine origin, tells himself that it is his duty to preserve them.

Law!" said Bunce, with all the scorn he knew how to command— "law! Did ye ever know a poor man yet was the better for law, or for a lawyer? Will Mr Finney ever be as good to you, Job, as that man has been? Will he see to you when you're sick, and comfort you when you're wretched? Will he—

They are likely to have less educated parents who own fewer books and talk to them less from the time they are infants—a gap that's been estimated at 30 million words by the time they start kindergarten.

A pior forma de desigualdade é tentar fazer duas coisas diferentes serem iguais.

Denn es sind immer die Unterlegenen, die Gleichheit und Recht suchen, während die Mächtigen sich darum nicht scheren.

and poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Inequality is everywhere at the bottom of faction, for in general faction arises from men's striving for what is equal.

Civil strife is caused not only by inequality of property, but also by inequality of honors

it is the only advanced society in which the incomes of the majority have not risen in the 1980s and 1990s, despite steady increases in productivity.

Dying is the same all over. It's death that kills them.

A goose is always hungry, just like—and no comparison meant—a poor man's children. A poor man's children eat anything you give them with gusto. And they're never full. I know it from experience.

Poor people were dying of cold, they were swelling up with hunger. The children were falling like flies. But it wasn't so terrible, because only the poor were dying. May God not punish me.

It makes my heart ache to see people living such fine lives when I have to sit here like a widow in black, waiting to hear from my fine breadwinner

But a lot you care when all you can think of is your fine Yehupetz ladies. They should gash themselves on their diamonds and bleed to death!

Male) culture was (and is) parasitical, feeding on the emotional strength of women without reciprocity.

She said, I wish I had been born poor. (I wish I'd been born an Indian - Robert Kennedy.) The ideal would have been to be born poor and black. But the counterculture was full of people in the grip of the same fantasy, with some - from street fighters to rock stars to flower children - even starting to believe they were black.