Quotes About Inequality

Some 1.2 billion people in the world still have too little to eat; the same number today suffer from being overweight…..For the first time in 100 years medical experts are predicting that life expectancy in developed countries will fall. Thanks to obesity our children face the prospect of dying younger than us.

But I will not give them a share. Not one. Not for love. Nor for loyalty. Not to be fair. Because capitalism isn't fair. Life isn't fair. The lottery of what genes we are born with isn't fair. The moon and the stars and the gas clouds of Alpha Centauri aren't fair.

I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.

Democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave.

We magnify the wealthy man, though his parts be never so poor. The poor man we despise, be he never so well qualified. Gold is the coverlet of imperfections. It is the fool?s curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.

We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.

Le Tiers-Monde est le nom par lequel nous appelons, par pudeur, cet enfer, ou ce purgatoire des hommes vivants.

Une nation qui tolère les quartiers de taudis, les égoûts à ciel ouvert, les classes surpeuplées, et qui ose châtier les jeunes délinquants, me fait penser à cette vieille ivrognesse qui vomissait sur ses gosses à longueur de semaine et giflait le plus petit, par hasard, un dimanche, parce qu'il avait bavé sur son tablier. (p. 41)

With the support of leftist intellectuals and the Catholic Church, the MST has become much more than a movement of the poor. It boasts 1.5 million members, including television stars, samba singers, and other celebrities at home and abroad.

Land distribution in Brazil is one of the most unfair in the world. One frequently cited statistic from the beginning of my presidency showed that 1 percent of the population controlled 45 percent of Brazil's arable land.

Las grandes desigualdades de nuestro siglo son las que separan a quienes saben y tienen acceso educativo a las fuentes el conocimiento de quienes necesitan la tutela informativa de los demás toda la vida

El que ayuda a la pobreza la perpetua. Porque ¿cuál es la ley de este mundo sino que de una pareja de pobres nazcan cinco o diez?

Mendiguitos a mí, caridad cristiana! Odiando al rico pero eso sí, empeñándose en seguir de pobres y pariendo más...

Afuera Colombia roba y mata, adentro se hace la Ley. Lo uno es consecuencia de lo otro, es el eco.

Pobres ricos padeciendo la plaga de los pobres. Los pobres son una carga para los países y la gente honrada. Comen mucho y hacen poco, destruyen las universidades y por donde pasan arrasan y si uno les da chance, lo roban.

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

No wan cares to hear what Hogan calls "Th' short an' simple scandals iv th' poor."

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

Who had decided that some should have so little and others so much?

My dad says that the dogs and cats in America are luckier than most people in the world.

The most oppressed man finds a being to oppress, his wife: she is the proletarian of the proletarian.

Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.

As long as these ideas prevail, it is clear that the responsibility of government is enormous. Good fortune and bad fortune, wealth and destitution, equality and inequality, virtue and vice – all then depend upon political administration.

it is well known that large numbers of poor people attribute their poverty to what they call the tyranny of capital; meaning thereby the unwillingness of the owners of capital to allow others to use it without security for its safe return and compensation for its use.