Quotes About Inequality

By limiting their moral concerns to domestic and sexual behavior, many members of the middle class were able to ignore the harsh realities of life for the lower classes or even to blame working people's problems on their not being sufficiently committed to domesticity and female purity. Yet the establishment of a male breadwinner/female homemaker family in the middle and upper classes often required large sections of the lower class to be unable to do so.

I understood where her way of thinking came from. She had been the product of a wealthy and healthy two parent home. She had no clue how people from different walks of life struggled. In her eyes, the problems that people faced shouldn't've had an effect on how they turned out in life.

Women. They carried the whole world, one way or another, and they still felt like they weren't worth a hill of beans unless they got paid for their troubles. And troubles they had plenty of.

After all, a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him.

From this observed behavior a major psychological truth about this race of forked destroyers may be deduced: that, just as nature abhors a vacuum, "mankind abhors equality."

Technology to wipe out truth is now available. Not everybody can afford it but it's available. When the cost comes down, look out!

the truth is that it's far easier to make a bomb than to educate four hundred million people.

The truth is black celebrities are not as sought after in the press as white celebrities, and that is comforting.

It's a collective truth that slavery is wrong, that child labor is wrong, that gross inequality is wrong. God didn't send it.

I figured I could do "It's A Man's, Man's, Man's World" because I believe it's the truth.

We are eating, using up, and possessing more than we should. That is why a large portion of the human population is hungry.

We eat breads, and we eat it with butter.While some brothers, starve for water and leave near the gutter.

It's all about money, not freedom. You think you're free? Try going somewhere without money.

A rich person is just a poor person with a crown and elaborate clothing, and a poor person is just a rich person with a crownless head and ragged clothing.

And our nation, though it has no drinking water, electricity, sewage system, public transportation, sense of hygiene, discipline, courtesy, or punctuality, does have entrepreneurs.

Income from labor [in the United States] is about as unequally distributed as has ever been observed anywhere.

A rich man's lie has more validity than a poor man's truth in a materialistc world

Inequality breeds depression, addiction, resignation, and physical symptoms including premature aging, that affect the entire population. In other words, the well-being of individuals, rich or poor, is mutually dependent.

The rich kept you waiting so you could feel free to admire all that they had.

People too poor to afford their own legal defense and reliant on the government that was prosecuting them to also defend them.

He taught Bosch early on that in society all victims are not created equal, but to the true detective they must be.

He knew that first-class passengers were accorded special status that moved them quickly through security checks and first onto planes. Airport and airline staff and security were less likely to concern themselves with first-class travelers, even if they were a disheveled man with blood on his jacket and a thirteen-year-old girl who couldn't seem to keep tears off her cheeks.

The biggest cause of environmental destruction is poverty. Starving people can't worry about pollution. They worry about food. Half

If there's anything worse than a limousine liberal," Morton said, "it's a Gulfstream environmentalist.