Quotes About Inequality

Unnecessary spending makes another man rich and another man poor.

Listen to the insults being flung around in the political controversies of the present day—the thieving rich, the shiftless poor, and the rest of it—and notice how many of them amount to claims that wealth that ought to belong to one group of people is being unfairly held by another.

George Bernard Shaw once quipped that politicians can always rely on Paul's vote if they give him money that they steal from Peter. This understates the problem with democracy because Paul is an old man and Peter is either a child or unborn.

Dalila: In argument with men a woman everGoes by the worse, whatever be her cause.Samson: For want of words, no doubt, or lack of breath!

Poverty does not cause violence and terrorism. Lack of education does not cause terrorism.

Women who are encouraged to complain of 'harassment' have never felt the nasty draft that whistles round a man subjected to female scrutiny. The masculine leer at least is warmed by the breath of inquisitive lust. It may be tedious, even offensive, but it must be preferable to the rubber-glove approach of the female National Health Medical: one's brains as well as balls are up for grabs.

Trotsky once asked, "How many Aristotles are herding swine, and how many swineherds are sitting on thrones?

The highest percentages of death by abortion were recorded among minorities and the poor, who, not coincidentally, live in areas with the highest numbers of abortion clinics, placed in those locations by persons with an agenda.

a fim de tratar as pessoas igualitariamente, a sociedade deve dar atenção àqueles com menos dotes inatos e aos oriundos de posições sociais menos favoráveis. A ideia é de reparar o desvio das contingências na direção da igualdade

Property-owning democracy avoids [inequalities], not by redistributing income to those with less at the end of each period, so to speak, but rather by ensuring the widespread ownership of productive assets and human capital (educated abilities and trained skills) at the beginning of each period.

The real cause of hunger is a scarcity of justice, not a scarcity of food. Enough grain is squandered every day in raising American livestock for meat to provide every human being on earth with two loaves of bread.

My problem was not with comfort or monetary wealth. My problem was with a way of life in which those who have more than they need are envied or extolled, while those who are materially poor are scorned or forgotten.

Decades of PRI despotism purposefully made sure that the poor stayed poor, so that they would be dependent on the mal gobierno and vote to keep the Perfect Dictatorship in power year after year.

As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime.

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

The comfortable people in tight houses felt pity at first, and then distaste, and finally hatred for the migrant people.

The fields were fruitful and starving men moved on the roads. The granaries were full and the children of the poor grew up rachitic.

While a free market doesn't produce equal outcomes, it produces better outcomes.

All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear so tyrannical, that people are apt to wonder how they ever could have. been tolerated; forgetful that they themselves perhaps tolerate other inequalities under an equally mistaken notion of expediency, the correction of which would make that which they approve seem quite as monstrous as what they have at last learnt to condemn.

The justice of giving equal protection to the rights of all, is maintained by those who support the most outrageous inequality in the rights themselves.

Wage-slaves, free in name only, are much cheaper to exploit, and work harder than slaves.

vücutlar sosyal s?n?f?n görünür simgeleridir.

Look again at the seven lessons of school teaching: confusion, class position, indifference, emotional and intellectual dependency, conditional self-esteem, and surveillance. All of these lessons are prime training for permanent underclasses

Class is material consumed.