Quotes About Inequality

He wondered what a visitor from the past would make of it. It used to be the poor who were thin and the rich who were fat, now it seemed to be the other way round.

Tracy thought she must be missing something, it felt like the same world as ever to her. The rich getting richer, the poor getting poorer, kids everywhere falling through the cracks. The Victorians would have recognized it. People just watched a lot more TV and found celebrities interesting, that was all that was different.

In argument with men a woman ever Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause.

Government mitigates the inequality of power, and makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow-subjects.

We do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest fortune.

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.

Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.

Nature, by its very nature, is very brutal and unequal. However, Man has somehow managed to transform the nature of its brutality and inequality.

Wealth is a great sin in the eyes of God. Poverty is a great sin in the eyes of man.

Regardless of how me or this man right here or anybody else in this business get, when we walk on an airplane in first-class looking like this, we're gonna get searched.

I did believe, from my experience of life and of looking at the world, that men hated women.

No hour brings good fortune to one man without bringing misfortune to another.

The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.

All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.

Under capitalism, man oppresses man. But under socialism, it's the other way around.

Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding.

A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.

Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.

As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots.

It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen.

You can never have 'equality' between two things that are not equal by definition. And so, for example, you can have equality among 'people', but not between 'men' and 'women'.

A little man makes a mistake and they hang him by the thumbs; the big ones become ambassadors.

I see it is impossible for the King to have things done as cheap as other men.

The rich is the one that rules over those of little means, and the borrower is servant to the man doing the lending.