Quotes About Inequality

You hit the wall almost right when you get up to the top. If there's a female writer being suggested to do a rewrite on a script, it's always the big boys going, "Mm, let's go with [a man]..."

Stupid f***ing white man.

It already appears, that there must be in every society of men superiors and inferiors, because God has laid in the constitution and course of nature the foundations of the distinction.

One man's consumption becomes his neighbor's wish.

Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious.

Ann Romney talking about middle class moms is like Chris Christie talking about a salad

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.

He was the only man I ever knew who could get money from the rich and votes from the poor with the promise to protect them from each other.

Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it'll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.

Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country.

There's an old adage that says that money is the root of all evil. Bullshit. Lack of money is the root of all evil.

When you say fiscal responsibility, it seems to me that you really mean rich people keeping their money.

What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?

It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene

Money is the god of our time, and Rothschild is his prophet.

America has become the most unequal society among advanced countries, and rich people are now free to spend as much money on political campaigns as they wish.

Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal - that there is no human relation between master and slave.

Money talks. It makes art. It determines what food we eat, whether we are cured or die, and what shoes we wear.

There are only three ways by which any individual can get wealth — by work, by gift or by theft. And, clearly, the reason why the workers get so little is that the beggars and thieves get so much.

Equity is compromised due to the privatisation of education. Education has become a commodity. Those who can afford to buy it, buy it, and those who can sell it make money out of it