Quotes About Inequality

It's much more acceptable for men to work and father kids. There's an inherent inequality, because we want to do it all, and I don't know how we can do this all.

General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others.

The extremes of opulence and of want are more remarkable, and more constantly obvious, in [Great Britain] than in any other place that I ever saw.

The few who profit from the labor of the masses want to organize the workers into an army which will protect the interests of the capitalists.

You can tax the rich all you want. The problem is there aren't enough of the rich.

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

I'm not for women, frankly, in any job. I don't want any of them around. Thank God we don't have any in the Cabinet.

There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and Portuguese settlements.

But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.

The rich and powerful want to believe in their right to be rich and powerful, so they justify it by saying they are inherently superior to the poor and lowly.

When I see the toothless guy, as a liberal, what I say is, 'I want to help you get teeth.' Why does that make me an a**hole?

I'm persuaded that if most people saw what I see on a regular basis, they would want change.

You may baptize as long as you want, but the Jew remains a Jew, the Chinese a Chinese and the Negro a Negro.

It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy persons who, in the great lottery of life, have drawn a blank.

Ultraconservatism is, to me, so illogical. Everywhere you go, conservatives want to cut, cut, cut, cut - cut money for powerless people. So, that's the biggest problem I have with them.

It's the people without the money and the power, who desperately want to live, for those people small things aren't small at all.

Poor people want to be poor; if they just worked harder they could have more.

Stable markets, unstable world. Efficiency. Everybody hears about it. It's enough to make you want to be pro-inefficiency and pro-corruption.

The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.

You don't have to even see the common man anymore if you don't want to! Only through the telescope on your yacht.

Mississippi gets more than their fair share back in federal money, but who the hell wants to live in Mississippi?

I know hedge-fund guys that are making hundreds of millions of dollars a year and pay no tax. And I want to lower [tax] for the middle income. The middle class in this country has been decimated.

When wealth ascends to a point where the majority of the poor finally comprehend that it is, for each of them, unattainable, then all civility collapses, and anarchy prevails.