Quotes About Inequality

Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: For the men who rule our world, rules are for other people.

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.

We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one!

Why is it that two-thirds of white, rural men voted Republican? Why? That's what we have to address. That's crazy. These people are working longer and longer hours.

You are giving a little man a biscuit to eat, and you put a barrel of flour more taxes on top of his head to carry.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

Odd, isn't it, that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and frivolous, and without fruit for God or man?

The uncouth hordes of common men are not fit to recognize duly the merits of those who eclipse their own wretchedness.

Control over a woman is the only form of dominance most men possess, for most men are merely subjects of more powerful men.

One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle.

Men own basketball teams. Every year cheerleaders' outfits get tighter and briefer, and players' shorts get baggier and longer.

Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are provided to keep all men from a necessity either to beg, or steal, or be Souldiers.

Fifty years ago, 100 white men chasing one black man across a field was called the Ku Klux Klan. Today it's called the PGA Tour.

There's many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies.

You got men who can't hold peace and women who can't control their tongues. The rich seduce the poor, and the old seduce the young.

Where wealth accumulates, men decay.

I tell my children that a man like Bill Gates has a personal fortune of $100 billion. They can't even comprehend that. Then I explain that he has more money than some countries.

Political men, like goats, usually thrive best among inequalities.

What infinite heart's-ease Must kings neglect that private men enjoy! And what have kings that privates have not too, Save ceremony, save general ceremony?

When a poor man gives something, that is a sacrifice indeed. When a rich man gives something, it hardly rises to the same level.

A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert.

A white man killed the mules and our cows that knocked us right back down. And things got so tough then I began to wish I was white.

The world cannot live at the level of its great men.

Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.