Quotes About Inequality

For where shall a man turn who has no money? Where can he go? Wide, wide world, but as narrow as the coins in your hand. Like a tethered goat, so far and no farther. Only money can make the rope stretch, only money.

Was there some fault in English fathers and mothers of the rich and famous?

The value of money is a scam perpetrated by those who have it over those who don't

So many problems, however infinitely varied they first appear, turn out to be matters of money. I can't tell you how much this offends me. The value of money is a scam perpetrated by those who have it over those who dont; it's the Emperor's New Clothes gone global.

So many problems, however infinitely varied they first appear, turn out to be matters of money. I can't tell you how much this offends me. The value of money is a scam perpetrated by those who have it over those who don't; it's the Emperors's New Clothes gone global.

The value of money is a scam             perpetrated by those who have it over those who don't

The value of money is a scam perpetrated by those who have it over those who don't

The value of money is a scam perpetuated by those who have it over those who don't.

Marriage. That's what he called it, though men like Paul do not marry women. They own them. They control them. They are voracious gluttons who devour every part of a woman, then clean their teeth with the bones.

He was playing chess and she was sucking at checkers.

Leigh was constantly amazed when rich white people assumed the system always worked until they found themselves wrapped up in it. Then, it had to be some kind of God damned conspiracy.

Men never have to be uncomfortable around women. Women have to be uncomfortable around men all of the time.

the reason the middle class had it so good was because they expected things to be better. They wouldn't settle for less than they were worth. They'd just get into their shiny cars and go where they were appreciated. Poor people, on the other hand, were used to just taking what was given to them and being grateful for it.

because if a man rejects a woman, she goes home and cries for a few days. If a woman rejects a man, he can rape and kill her." "I

Even this far into the game, Leigh was always surprised by how fantastic it was to be a white, wealthy man.

I can't believe that another woman is doing this to you, Cathy said. it's disgusting. This is why women will never get ahead: other women are constantly cutting them off at the knees.

Will knew from Angie that the girls seldom got to keep any cash. The pimps took care of their living quarters, their food, their clothes. All the girls had to do was risk their lives and health every night by tricking whatever john pulled up with the right amount of cash. It was modern slavery, which was ironic, considering most if not all of the pimps were black.

In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.

Capital is dead labour, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.

Accumulate, accumulate! This is Moses and the Prophets!

Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another.

You must be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.

Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps

To say that the worker has an interest in the rapid growth of capital, means only this: that the more speedily the worker augments the wealth of the capitalist, the larger will be the crumbs which fall to him, the greater will be the number of workers than can be called into existence, the more can the mass of slaves dependent upon capital be increased.