Quotes About Inequality

The rules only applied to people who couldn't afford different rules.

Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.

This is not something you or I do. This is something the poor do so that the rich get better drugs.

David Halberstam describes a young viewer – he may mean himself – who was fascinated by the fact that a child in one such series was 'sent upstairs to his room' as a punishment. At that point he could only dream of living in a house that had an upstairs, let alone a room of his own. But the message of every soap manufacturer, repeated over and over again, was 'tomorrow you too can live like this'.

Ongemerkt had zich binnen onze hoogontwikkelde samenleving een nieuwe tweedeling ontwikkeld: die tussen snellen en langzamen.

Het vermogen van de rijkste vierhonderd Amerikanen is op dit moment groter dan dat van de armste honderdvijftig miljoen Amerikanen gezamenlijk.

Why were some people born into blessing and others born into curse?

War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.

Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!

Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.

The men crashed back through the store and Peter moved right to the racks of weapons. He pulled down a gorgeous high-powered rifle that was equipped with a sophisticated scope for sighting. "Ain't it a crime!" he ejaculated. "What?" Steve asked, confused by the man's sudden outburst. "The only person who could ever miss with this gun," Peter said, looking through the telescope, "is the sucker with bread enough to buy it.

Query 1. Whether there ever was, is, or will be, an industrious nation poor, or an idle rich?

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

The greatest of our evils and the worst of our crimes is poverty.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

Property is organized robbery.

I'm one of the undeserving poor.

I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.

It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen.

Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.

John Cochrane notes: "Rich people mostly give away or reinvest their wealth. It's hard to see just how this is a problem.…Look at Versailles. Nobody, not even Bill Gates, lives like Marie Antoinette. And nobody in the US lives like her peasants.

There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

Bestowing upon men equality of rights is but giving license to the strong to oppress the weak. It begets the grossest inequality of condition.