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Quotes About Inequality

I don't think we live in a particularly equal society.
~ Sienna Miller
Only from a capitalist viewpoint being productive is a moral virtue, if not a moral imperative. From the viewpoint of the working class, being productive simply means being exploited.
~ Silvia Federici
ofi?erii B?ncii Mondiale ?i ai FMI, care predic? înc? despre valoarea unui b?nu? acelora?i popula?ii pe care puteile dominante ale lumii le-au jefuit ?i s?r?cit vreme de secole.
~ Silvia Federici
Uma vez mais, muito da violência empregada é dirigida contra as mulheres, porque, na era do computador, a conquista do corpo feminino continua sendo uma precondição para a acumulação de trabalho e riqueza, tal como demonstra o investimento institucional no desenvolvimento de novas tecnologias reprodutivas que, mais do que nunca, reduzem as mulheres a meros ventres.
~ Silvia Federici
The couple had only lived a short while in that village, and they were poor as rats. Leonarda's husband bought damaged cigarettes, personally extracted his own teeth, ate meat and polenta twice a week, drank mate from an earthenware mug, never took his wife to the movies, and when she was ill he took her to a veterinarian.
~ Silvina Ocampo
And if you look at the reality in the United States, where you have more than 40 million people below the poverty line and 42 million on food stamps, and then you look at poverty around the world, clearly the way we're running the engine of capitalism is not serving us well.
~ Simon Mainwaring
It's not just about Jen," he said. "It's about the entire romantic system. Ninety-nine percent of men are in love with the top one percent of women. And yet they often refuse to date us. It's a complete injustice.
~ Simon Rich
Rozbójnicy" i "bandyci" to terminy od dawna stosowane przez bogatych (do których z pewnoÅ›ciÄ… zaliczaÅ' siÄ™ Józef [Flawiusz]) na okreÅ›lenie buntowników spoÅ›ród obci??onych podatkami i zubo?aÅ'ych.
~ Simon Schama
Nobility would be defined by the privilege of owning other human beings, setting a Russian pattern of behaviour: servility to those above, tyranny to those below.
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore
The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
When I look out [the window] at the big houses on either side of the road, it's obvious we've entered the rich side of town. Poor people don't post signs like NO TRESPASSING, PRIVATE DRIVE, PRIVATE PROPERTY, MONITORED BY CAMERA SURVEILLANCE. I should know because I've been poor my entire life, and the only person I know who ever posted a sign like these is my friend...and he actually stole the sign off a rich guy's yard.
~ Simone Elkeles
It's like a fuckin' parade of white folks, one whiter than the next.
~ Simone Elkeles
You see people in torn dresses, lying down and getting up in ramshackle cabins, but who knows what they may have in their cupboards? Who knows?
~ Simone Schwarz-Bart
Tell me what's wrong with society When everywhere I look I see Rich guys driving big SUV's While kids are starving in the streets No one cares No one likes to share I guess life's unfair
~ Simple Plan
The difference between a rich man and a poor man is this -- the former eats when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it.
~ Sir Walter Raleigh
Los patriarcas nos defraudan. No ven y no escuchan. Suelen permanecer ciegos y hacer oídos sordos a las mujeres, se pavonean, alardean y actúan como si no estuviéramos allí. Y no siempre son hombres. A veces son mujeres, también ciegas que se odian a sí mismas. Están atrapadas en los hábitos perceptivos de los siglos, en las expectativas que han llegado a gobernar su mente.
~ Siri Hustvedt
God must love the rich or he wouldn't divide so much among so few of them.
~ H. L. Mencken
When one is overfed and another one is hungry, I call that a disaster.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
When you go to Africa, and you see children, they're usually barefoot, dirty and in rags, and they'd love to go to school.
~ Annie Lennox
At the same time, it wasn't exactly fair that, once again, David had the world handed to him on a silver platter. People like David didn't have to make their own luck. It was fair to bet that no one was going to offer Stevie a free ride to school in England, and she'd solved a murder.
~ Maureen Johnson
This isn't an accident; this happens because to people at the top, the scariest thing is how many people there are below. They need to watch us. They need to monitor what we're thinking. It's the only thing between them and a guillotine.
~ Max Barry
Every rich man's house has a servant's entrance.
~ Max Brooks
Do they have to explain to Suburban Peter why they're fleecing him for Ghetto Paul?
~ Max Brooks
As long as God is a man, not a couple, the life of a woman, according to Hanna,is bound to remain as it is now, namely wretched, with woman as the proletarian of Creation, however smartly dressed.
~ Max Frisch