Quotes About Inequality

everything that lifts people above their fellows arouses both emulation and jealousy.

L'Occidente mangia sulla terrazza e da basso il resto del mondo attende gli avanzi. [...] Ai ricchi di questi e altri tempo piace così - dice il diavolo roteando la forchetta - e le porte dell'inferno sono larghe abbastanza per qualsiasi pancia.

Si un banco o una compañía financiera eran dueños de las tierras, el enviado decía: el Banco, o la Compañía, necesita, quiere, insiste, debe recibir, como si el banco o la compañía fuera un monstruo con capacidad para pensar y sentir, que les hubiera atrapado. Ellos no asumían la responsabilidad por los bancos o las compañías porque eran hombres y esclavos, mientras que los bancos eran máquinas y amos, todo al mismo tiempo.

Blacks did not arrive in New York in large numbers until after World War I, and, following the lead of the foreign immigrants, they moved to Harlem. Most were from the rural South, and most were poor. As the blacks moved in, the Jews moved out—north into the Bronx or, if they could afford it, to the South Shore of Queens and Long Island.

Some people really do have it a lot worse than I do. They really do.

As the governor scanned it, Swim explained. "Liberal progressive policies for the last fifty years or so have devastated the poor people of America. Welfare; aid to dependent families; food stamps; essentially free medical care; schools that try to prepare everyone for a four-year college degree, when only a fraction of the poor people will ever want or get one; lack of technical training; the breakdown of the black family—all those things have led us to where we are.

but until we fix the government policies that breed poverty, we have condemned the poor, black, white, and brown to a life of economic slavery

She performed nearly all the house-work in exchange for the privilege of existence. Every

The Setting and the People: Ohio "I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken stronger hold on the affections of men, and where a profounder contempt is expressed for the theory of the permanent equality of property."?Alexis de Tocqueville

Civilisation, after all, is not an attitude of mind, it is an attribute of wealth

Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced [robots] wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality.

My father believed that his own lack of pose and connections had led him being passed over in his career in favor of people of less ability. He had a bit of a chip on his shoulder because he felt that other people who were not as good but who had the right background and connections had gotten ahead of him. He used to warn me against such people.

Slaves, women, and foreigners were all essentially the same to ancient men—contemptible. They were all other.

Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is.

Because in America, you could have anything you wanted, just as long as you could pay for it. If you couldn't pay, or refused to pay, you would remain needful for ever.

Remember, my talented friend, there are Michelangelos begging everywhere in the streets of Rome...

If you can't afford a movie, go to the zoo. If you can't afford the zoo, go see a politician.

It makes no difference if you're rich or poor Or if you're smart or dumb. A woman's place in this old world Is under some man's thumb, And if you're born a woman You're born to be hurt. You're born to be stepped on, Lied to, Cheated on, And treated like dirt. -Sandy Posey, 'Born a Woman' Lyrics by Martha Sharp

It makes no difference if you're rich or poor Or if you're smart or dumb. A woman's place in this old world Is under some man's thumb, And if you're born a woman You're born to be hurt. You're born to be stepped on, Lied to, Cheated on, And treated like dirt. —Sandy Posey, "Born a Woman" Lyrics by Martha Sharp

My whole life have been treated like a donkey. All I want is that one of mine - at least one - should live like a man.

There's only one thing worse than being sick...and that's being sick and poor.

Better educated or financially comfortable people often smile more than less educated or economically distressed people.

If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.

...distinction between growth and development. Aggregate growth in national economic indicators need not mean an improved life for the majority of the people.