Quotes About Inequality

Those who give the orders are not the ones to die The people who are doing the work and the fighting and the dying, and those who are doing the talking, are not all the same people.

The streets were full of insane & dull people. Most of them lived in nice houses and didn't seem to work, and you wondered how they did it.

They make a humongous profit, but the people that work on the shows don't get paid a lot because they're working on the Oscars show. It's the biggest show in the world.

Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

How much more of an injustice is it that people who work get more money than people who don't work?

I know very well what it is to be out of work and to be cheated by employers and I know what it is to be an employer.

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.

I see my friends, my family, my cousins work all day long for very little money, and if I have this problem of not being able to wall on the streets, it's not a big deal.

This administration and the leadership in Congress appear to be intent on valuing wealth over work, thereby placing working families at a distinct disadvantage.

In India, it's the rich who have problems with obesity. And the poor are darker-skinned because they work outside and often work without their tops on so you can see their ribs.

What kind of a society are we going to have if it consists of highly paid people doing high-value-added work - and masses of unemployed?

Material civilization, nay, even luxury, is necessary to create work for the poor. Bread! Bread! I do not believe in a God who cannot give me bread here, giving me eternal bliss in heaven!

The women who do the most work get the least money, and the women who have the most money do the least work.

I deplored a system that made it more profitable not to work than to work. I wanted to help change all that.

The game is rigged to work for those who already have money and power.

In the days and months I spent walking through the various communities of this city, I found that Chicago did not work for everyone, however.

The majority of the roles I've played are women who have been either impoverished or subjugated in some way. So while I've been fortunate enough to have success because these roles exist, they are stereotypical roles.

A few years ago, kids from poor areas in France were asked to draw items of food. For a chicken, they drew a drumstick. For a fish, they drew a fish stick. Those are extremes, but there is a lot that needs to be done to help children discover good food.

On a bad day, I'll still have a conscious thing in my mind reminding me that what I think of as a bad day is still a very good day in probably 90% of the world's population's eyes.

Rich, smart parents tend to have rich, smart kids - not because it's genetic but because they can create a home environment and sensory stimulation that lower-income kids often don't get.

Nothing takes the sting out of these tough economic times like watching a bunch of millionaires giving golden statues to each other.

See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.