Quotes About Inequality

In 2001, the U.S. government paid a record $4 billion in subsidies to cotton growers, a cost that exceeded the market value of the crop by 30 percent. To put it another way, these subsidies amounted to triple that year's USAID payments to all of Africa, a part of the world where production costs for cotton were only about a third of what they were in the United States. In

Therefore since money alone was able to perform all these feats, our Yahoos thought they could never have enough of it to spend or save, as they found themselves inclined from their natural bent either to profusion or avarice. That the rich man enjoyed the fruit of the poor man's labour, and the latter were a thousand to one in proportion to the former. That the bulk of our people were forced to live miserably, by labouring every day for small wages to make a few live plentifully.

Look what can happen in this country, they'd say. A girl lives in some out-of-the-way town for 19 years, so poor she can't afford a magazine, and then she gets a scholarship to college and wins a prize here and a prize there and ends up steering New York like her own private car. Only I wasn't steering anything, not even myself. I bumped from my hotel to work and to parties and from parties to my hotel and back to work like a numb trolley-bus.

The big men are all deaf; they don't want to hear the little squeaking as they walk across the street on cleated boots.

Pazar - doktorlar?n cenneti! Doktorlar özel kulüplerde, doktorlar deniz k?y?s?nda, doktorlar metresleriyle birlikte, doktorlar kar?lar?yla birlikte, doktorlar kilisede, doktorlar yatlar?nda, doktorlar her yerde, kesinlikle doktor deÄŸil, bugün yaln?zca insan.

The crucial point is not how much somebody pays in taxes but rather how much she has left after paying. This biblical lesson has been invoked time and again to justify a tax code that calls on the rich to pay higher rates than the poor.

Only the richest smidgen of the population had to file a return, and even for them the top tax rate was just 7%.

The income tax burden, he says, should fall more heavily on those who make their money on financial dealing; he says the U.S. system, in which the tax on capital gains is much lower than the tax on wages and salaries, is simply upside-down and thus counterproductive for dealing with the growth of inequality.

If this 80% top marginal rate were applied to earnings over $500,000, Piketty says, the tax regime would help to even out inequality without stunting economic growth. Beyond the income

of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. History

So long as there are nobles and commoners, the wealthy and the poor, those with power will be heard, and those without ignored. That's the world.

Pride is something only folk with money can afford.

All these nice clothes, all these jokes and drinks and food, what good does it do? Tomorrow, folk will be poor and starving and dying with a solder's pike in them, and these people will have another celebration, more nice clothes, more jokes, more gems. The suffering is forgotten or ignored - why sorrow? The war victims aren't our people. And then the wheel turns and suddenly they are our people.

He has never been stripped of his voice, so he does not know how it feels to be stripped of it, even a little.

What was unreasonable about asking those that had the coin to build the kingdom up again? They made enough riches off of us.

an unwanted man is a buyer with no money, and an unwanted woman is a seller with empty shelves. That is how, seemingly, the theme of the European financial crisis comes full circle.

Everyone who is educated today wants to sit at a comfortable desk under a fan and live in an air-conditioned house surrounded by a garden, coming and going in an American car as wide as the street. If we do not tear out this disease by the roots we shall have with us a bourgeoisie that is in no way connected with the reality of our life...

Realizing that inequality is socially constructed empowers us to be agents of change.

Violence is Black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years worth of education.

Life is so unfair.

Prostitution is the supreme triumph of capitalism.

Being a monarchist - saying that one small group is born more worthy of respect than another - is just as warped and strange as being a racist.

According to Rushdoony, the conditions of the Irish transport were as bad or worse than what we know of slave ships, and the condition of Irish immigrants on arrival was "far worse than that of slaves:

the market system handed down to human beings a sentence of "life at hard labor."18