Quotes About Inequality

There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war or famine, the rich get richer and poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it.

Human beings can easily destroy every elephant on earth, but we are helpless against the mosquito.

The rich and poor are but different ventricles of the same heart of humanity.

Scarcity causes hardship, but affluence creates poverty.

The Ward Line paid the lowest possible wages and drove the crew as hard as it could. Ordinary seamen earned $35 a month; firemen, $52; quartermasters, $55; engine-room oilers, $60.

Drawing on her humanist readings of Karl Marx, Grace urges us to analyze not only the material forms of inequality caused by capitalism but also the dehumanization and spiritual impoverishment inherent in a society dominated by money relations.

He was stupid, yes; he had never had any schooling; he didn't know how to explain himself. Was he in jail because he doesn't know how to explain things right? What was wrong with his being stupid? He worked like a slave, day in and day out. [...] Was it his fault he was stupid? Who was to blame?

Someone in the women's cell was crying and cursing the fleas. Some whore probably, the kind that would take on anybody. She was no good either. Fabiano wanted to yell to the whole town, to the judge, the chief of police, the priest, and the tax collector, that nobody in there was worth a damn. He, the men squatting around the fire, the drunk, the woman with the fleas —they were all completely worthless, fit only to be hanged.

Exchanges like these with Cathy always exhausted him, partly because she was so tenacious, but mainly because she was right. It was a fact of life that those with the fattest wallets and the loudest voices always got more than they deserved

Imagine the earth's population of six billion people reduced to just one hundred representatives. Statistically, that makes 30 white, 70 non-white. It means 6 people own 59% of the wealth and they all live in North America. 80 are in substandard housing. One has an education. One owns a computer. Don't blame me if it all sounds crazy.

In Chile, everything from "kindergarten to cemeteries and community swimming pools were put out for bid." Between 1985 and 1992, over two thousand government industries were sold off throughout Latin America. Much of this property passed into the hands of either multinational corporations or Latin America's "superbillionaires," a new class that had taken advantage of the dismantling of the state to grow spectacularly rich.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, is the reverse.

Another irony is that the achievement of mass affluence in much of the world--the decline in child mortality, the extension of adult life spans, and the reduction in inequality--have not made us any happier than our hunter-gatherer forebears.

The poor are pawns in a political-economic system contrived to keep those in power powerful and rich. Although the stake most people have in the going scheme is tiny, it's been enough to help isolate the majority of Russians from one another and keep them from acting in their common interests by joining forces against the country's top-down corruption.

For thirty years you couldn't possibly make it unless you were white, sleek, nicely spoken, and phony to your toenails—suddenly now you could be black, purple, moronic, delinquent, diseased, or almost anything on earth, and you could still clean up.

During lockdown, the poor and pedestrians are being beaten on the street, four wheeler owners are being worshiped on violating or letting them go away , VIPs are being allowed to move freely without face mask everywhere. Commoners are feeling humiliated and cheated

Rich feeds poor or disadvantaged only for own publicity.

Rich people are tested C-Virus positive only till the fee is given by them for their business promotion and then they are declared in news as tested negative.

Zapatos que les apretaban y les sacaban ampollas y que tu padre impedía que dejaran de calzar porque sin zapatos ningún indio podía llegar a ser alguien. Los ingenieros, los abogados, los maestros no calzaban huaraches.

Manifiesto...Este país divide en dos: en los que tienen miedo y en los que tienen rabia. Ustedes, burgueses, son los que tienen miedo. Miedo a perder sus joyas, sus relojes caros, sus celulares. Miedo a que violen a sus hijos...

Este país se divide en dos: en los que tienen miedo y en los que tienen rabia. Ustedes, burgueses, son los que tienen miedo ... Nosotros vivimos con rabia. Siempre con rabia. Nada poseemos.

Galones de sangre derramada para que unos spring breakers en Wisconsin o en Nebraska se dieran pasones de cocaína y se pusieran turulatos con la mota. Risa y risa los pinches escuincles gringos y de este lado puro valle de lágrimas. Deberían darles una escoba y un recogedor para que vinieran a levantar el tiradero de cadáveres.

Este país se divide en dos: en los que tienen miedo y en los que tienen rabia. Ustedes, burgueses, son los que tienen miedo.

Ya sabes, el racismo y el clasismo empieza por el olfato.