Quotes About Inequality

I know of no other country where love of money has such a grip on men's hearts or where stronger scorn is expressed for the theory of permanent equality of property

A man is robbed on the Stock Exchange, just as he is killed in a war, by people whom he never sees.

The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach, the rich man to get a stomach to his meat.

If a white man falls off a chair drunk, it's just a drunk. If a Negro does, it's the whole damn Negro race.

Dead women tell no tales. Sad men write them down.

I am a product of a rat and roach infested black ghetto. It is easy for me to rationalize my dealings as a numbers man. I'll defend men today who are involved in it.

There is no get-rich-quick scheme equal to a poor girl marrying a rich man.

Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

...men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.

As is the case with many Middle Eastern nations, women are nowhere near equal to men when it comes to basic freedoms and rights that we take for granted every day.

I knew that coming from a family with an unhealthy social origins, things would be harder for me. Nonetheless, in my heart, hope never died. However, over time, I had learned that trying never died either. Trying was one thing I always had to do more than others, because, in the self-proclaimed society of equals, we were made to be less equal than many of the families around us.

How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy.

The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it's only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.

There is proof that these early kings were taller and had much larger heads than the peasants of Egypt!

A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil.

You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.

A friend dropped in on him after a gig and asked what was new. "Nothin' new," he said. "White folks still ahead.

My heart aches for my people. I don't understand why God gives more power to some and less to others.

The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living.

I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.

Una tale uguaglianza in cui scompaiono le differenze favorisce nascostamente la disuguaglianza.

Linguistic and educational relativism helps to transform a class into a caste – a caste, almost, of Untouchables.

True, its people were much better off in material terms at the end of the century than at its outset, but man's sense of well-being depends upon comparison with others as well as upon his absolute condition.

Easily able to capture the lion's share of the aid that is given to their countries on the pretext that they are so poor, African elites have realised that there is wealth to be made from poverty.