Quotes About Inequality

la misma Roma no podía triunfar ninguna democracia sana con un proletariado que se corrompía diariamente en el ocio y con la percepción de subsidios.

Ma perché a noi tocca sempre soffrire? Alla gente come noi, alla gente comune, ai piccoli borghesi? Quando arriva una guerra, o il franco è in ribasso, o ci sono disoccupazione, crisi e rivoluzioni, gli altri se la cavano sempre. E siamo noi a pagare! Perché? Che cosa abbiamo fatto? Paghiamo per gli errori di tutti. Certo, di noi nessuno ha paura!

AparÈ›ineau acelei clase din marea burghezie francez? care prefera s?-È™i vad? copiii f?r? pâine, f?r? carne È™i aer decât f?r? diplome...

There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.

We're all like the slaves in the fields now, putting on the front that says 'Everything's fine, boss' while we worry about how to make ends meet.

Algunos pobres cabrones simplemente están mucho más predispuestos hacia la adicción a ciertas drogas que otros.

These workers, said Mendes with a gentle sweep of his arm, have a hard life of it. When illness comes they have no money for a doctor. The food for tomorrow comes from today's labour, and hard labour it is, too. Their houses, as you see, are small and poor; they are never more than a stone's throw away from privation and want. They've made a bad bargain with life; they need the thought of God to comfort them.

Often, this has only meant a change in tyranny. In other words, one ruling class is replaced by another—sometimes by one that is more efficient and therefore still more capable of maintaining itself—while the poor and downtrodden remain poor and downtrodden or become even worse off.

The talk about culture and justice was more revolting than the barbarism and injustice.

The worst dog gets the best bone. Why is it?

It bothers them that instead of taking on the role of abandoned lover, I have become a happy wife. They relish seeing strong women like you and me humiliated. They cannot forgive us that we triumphed where so many others fail...Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is out of balance, in favor of men. That is why they work so hard to mistreat and destroy us.

It's much easier to be generous with a full belly than an empty one," they said. I've never believed that, though, because I've seen that both kindness and cruelty exist everywhere.

She had been born to cradle other people's children, wear their hand-me-down clothing, eat their leftovers, live on borrowed happiness and grief, grow old beneath other people's roofs, die one day in her miserable little room in the far courtyard in a bed that did not belong to her, and be buried in a common grave in the public cemetery.

It's hard to make money working; and the harder the work, the worse the pay. It takes effort not to lose everything and end up on the street. It's easy, on the other hand, to get rich without producing anything, moving money from one place to another, speculating, taking advantage of stock opportunities, investing in the hard work of others.

That fairy tale that all humans are equal before the law and in the eyes of God is a lie, Camilo. I hope you don't buy into it. Neither the law nor God treats everyone the same.

Todos los gobiernos han olvidado a los pobres; eso genera violencia y tarde o temprano el país pagará por esa negligencia»

Multitud de niñas ricas con mente pobre.

Esto sirve para tranquilizarnos la conciencia, hija —explicaba a Blanca—. Pero no ayuda a los pobres. No necesitan caridad, sino justicia.

They are more interesting than most men, but that does not affect the reality: they live in an unyielding patriarchy. To begin with, a woman's work or intellect isn't respected; we must work twice as hard as any man to earn half the recognition

to serve an ambassador who was despotic toward his subordinates and servile toward those of a higher social rank.

Since when has a man not beaten his wife? If he doesn't beat her, it's either because he doesn't love her or because he isn't a real man. Since when is a man's paycheck or the fruit of the earth or what the chickens lay shared between them, when everybody knows he is the one in charge? Since when has a woman ever done the same things as a man? Besides, she was born with a wound between her legs and without balls, right, Senora Clara?

moral crisis is produced when the same affluent Catholics who faithfully go to mass deny their workers a dignified wage.

No puedo ser miembro de una institución que me considera persona de segunda clase y cuyas autoridades, siempre hombres, imponen sus reglas con la fuerza del dogma y gozan de impunidad.

Esta violencia es el resultado de una guerra perpetua contra los pobres.