Quotes About Inequality

It is said that wealth cannot buy happiness. Perhaps that is true. But it is undeniably true that poverty can lead to despair

we never get around to discussing the reality that, after adjusting for inflation, the average worker in America is making $44 a week less today than she made fifty years ago.

Over fifteen million Americans lack any health insurance, and some thirty million are underinsured because of high deductibles and copayments.

In any case, in Vermont $500 is a lot of money for dinner. I hope these rich folks enjoyed themselves.

The federal minimum wage had not been raised since 2009. Even worse, the $2.13 an hour tipped minimum wage for waiters, waitresses, bartenders, barbers, and hairstylists had not been raised since 1991—my first year in Congress.

I have never been able to discover that there was anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient—in America.

There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.

Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can't bear to see it.

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it.

You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

Till you feed us, right and wrong can wait.

Denn die einen sind im Dunkeln Und die anderen sind im Licht. Und man sieht nur die im Lichte Die im Dunkeln sieht man nicht.

When the waters poured into Atlantis, the rich men still screamed for their slaves.

The law was made for one thing alone,for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it. And anyone who wants a crumb of this exploitation for himself must obey the law strictly.

When the houses of the great collapse Many little people are slain. Those who have no share in the fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes. The plunging wain Drags the sweating beasts with it into the abyss.

And I did work out something: that the rich of the earth indeed create misery, but they cannot bear to see it. They are weaklings and fools just like you. As long as they have enough to eat and can grease their floors with butter so that even the crumbs that fall from your table grow fat, they can't look with indifference on a man collapsing from hunger - although, of course, it must be in front of their house that he collapses.

Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can't bear to see it.

You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy, but till you feed us right and wrong can wait. Or is it only those who have the money who can enter the land of milk and honey?

La ley se ha hecho pura y exclusivamente para explotar a aquellos que no la entienden, o a quienes la miseria impide respetarla. Y quien quiera obtener su mendrugo de esa explotación, debe atenerse estrictamente a la ley.

Reicher Mann und armer Mann standen da und sah'n sich an. Und der arme sagte bleich, wär ich nicht arm, wärst du nicht reich.

But if the little man gets paid even less than he is now, How will he ever afford our vegetables?

Hay muchas maneras de matar. Pueden meterte un cuchillo en el vientre. Quitarte el pan. No curarte de una enfermedad. Meterte en una mala vivienda. Empujarte hasta el suicidio. Torturarte hasta la muerte por medio del trabajo. Llevarte a la guerra... Solo algunas están prohibidas en nuestro Estado.

La legge è fatta esclusivamente per lo sfruttamento di coloro che non la capiscano, o ai quali la brutale necessità non permette di rispettarla.