Quotes About Inequality

Reading about Shelley and Byron I get awfully fed up, realizing that these men never did a day's work in their lives; they lived off the system, were free to travel all around Europe with entourages if necessary, never wrote about a guy earning a living. That is not the world I knew, that is not the world I want to be a part of, and by and large it's not a world I'm interested in. How

The real inferiority of women to men is shown by their hate of paederasty , which they regard as unfair competition. Men on the other hand rather approve of Sapphism , as saving them trouble & expense. — Aleister Crowley . 1929-03-09 diary entry.

My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak. What I see in my country, progressively over these years, is that the rich have got richer, the poor have got poorer. The rich have become indifferent through a philosophy of greed, and the poorer have become hopeless because they're not properly cared for. That's actually something that is happening in many Western societies. Your own, I am told, is not free from it.

It was easy to share when there was enough, even barely enough, to go round. But when there was not enough? Then force entered in; might making right; power, and its tool, violence, and its most devoted ally, the averted eye.

Where there's property, there's theft.

The difference, I think, is that in Vietnam, people seem to have no choice about the kind of house they live in. They may want to fix the roof, but they can't do much about it, so they fight each other for a dry spot on the floor away from all the leaks.

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

New York is the capital, the national headquarters of homelessness.... No one feels he belongs here.

The bad guys are whoever it is who think they are better than everybody else. This world needs to be turned upside down.

Economy-size coffins for the living dead. Tin cans for the sardines of humanity. There wasn't a more heinous pairing of words in the English language

This building is reserved for low-income individuals earning seventy grand a year or less." Eve was stunned. "That's poverty wage in Santa Monica?" "And all of Los Angeles County," Gus said. Duncan looked at Eve. "That's insane. Give me one good reason why anybody lives in Southern California?" "In-N-Out Burger.

I saw her walking past my house every week. She kept getting bigger and bigger. It was like she was mocking me. It was so unfair. All the people who work here are poor, uneducated, and illegal. The only thing they're good at is cleaning toilets and getting pregnant. Nobody would miss her

Human beings are created unequal, and no amount of social engineering or government intervention can significantly alter one's lot in life. At most, government policies can help equalise opportunity at the starting point, but they cannot ensure equal outcomes. Society is bound to end up with unequal outcomes

Some folks can't hide things. They don't have enough, not enough money or influence or shame.

Landlords are enemies of the workers," Hansu said.

Black Students, Middle Class Teachers by Jawanza Kunjufu.

Indeed, the long-standing establishment embrace of the Malthusian worry explodes any suggestion that anti-growth is a particularly radical position. But then elites have never really liked the vast bulk of humanity, believing us all to be lesser creatures, unlettered, unrefined.

Images of African Americans as bad mothers, ineffective mothers, and matriarchs...conceal and justify the difficult conditions in which they work and raise children. But oddly enough, these same women, who are said to run amok in their own communities, are thought to be entirely competent at parenting the children of the elite-as mammies during slavery, as domestic workers during segregation, or as child care workers today.

Historically, a story about people inside impressive buildings ignoring or even taunting people standing outside shouting at them turns out to be a story with an unhappy ending.

Poor fellow, he needed handmade shoes because of his 'awkward feet' and Savile Row suits because he wasn't lucky enough to have the figure for ready-made ones. Cheap wine played havoc with his stomach so he drank expensive ones, and because he couldn't fit into economy-size airline seats he was forced to go everywhere first class.

Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Yes? Well socialism is exactly the reverse.

you have to be taught to be secondclass;your not born that way

We must not depict socialism as if socialists will bring it to us on a plate all nicely dressed. That will never happen. Not a single problem of the class struggle has ever been solved in history except by violence. When violence is exercised by the working people, by the mass of exploited against the exploiters -- then we are for it!

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.