Quotes About Inequality

My mother was an excellent woman. Pious, virtuous. Kind. But she was not the intellectual equal of my father. Not by any means. I do not speak of book learning. I speak of a certain innate quality of mind, a superior understanding. Because she had it not, their companionship was - diminished. Father looked to his books, rather than to his wife.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

Justice is too good for some people, and not good enough for the rest.

Laws are the spider's webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

Laws, like the spider's web, catch the fly and let the hawk go free.

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? All the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.

The suffering of the rich is among the sweetest pleasures of the poor.

Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

A rich child often sits in a poor mother's lap.

Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Poverty - one thing money can't buy.

The rich would have to eat money, but luckily the poor provide food.

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

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people: it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

Short of genius, a rich man cannot imagine poverty.

Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.

The poor will always be with you.

This is one of the bitter curses of poverty: it leaves no right to be generous.