Quotes About Inequality

I'm constantly embarrassed at the level of attention actors get and the level of money that we get. It's completely disproportionate.

The rich are different from us.

It's easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.

Rich people are poor people with money.

Boredom is the keynote of poverty - of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with - for where there is no money there is no change of any kind.

Forget the credit, they (male actors) take all the money as well. We don't get paid even one-third of what male actors get. It's not so much about the money, but it's about (being a) woman.

Most social problems could be helped or prevented if people had more money and practical advice.

owning capital is not a productive activity.

Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance.

Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money.

The best way to help the poor is not to become one of them

You know that sadness and rage you feel about your money? That's the way some of us feel about people.

Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn't have any.

By the end of the first month of the 1995 session, each senator will have made more money than any person who works 40 hours a week at minimum wage for the entire year.

If Bill Gates woke up with Oprah's money he'd jump out the window.

Many people come here and they think my apartment is a poor relative to my name. But you cannot be radical and have money, it's impossible.

Money nowadays is money; money brings office; money gains friends; everywhere the poor man is down. [Lat., In pretio pretium nunc est; dat census honores, Census amicitias; pauper ubique jacet.]

As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.

Ill health is an important factor that forces the poor to remain poor. If they make a little bit of money, one episode of illness can wipe them out.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.

When money is controlled by a few it gives that few an undue power and control over labor and the resources of the country. Labor will have its best return when the laborer can control its disposal.

They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy.

America is like some crazed, bewildered, rich giant bumbling around in a poor area with his pockets stuffed with money, and lots of weapons - just throwing stuff around.