Quotes About Inequality

The law of socialist economy is this: from each according to his exploitability, to the nomenklatura according to its greed.

What a horrible feeling that is, to know that if the disease [AIDS] had primarily affected PTA presidents, or priests, or white teenage girls, the epidemic would have been ended years earlier, and tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved.

But that's the part that's so unfair. I have nothing else on my mind. How come I have to be the one sitting around analyzing him in like microscopic detail, and he gets to be the one with other things on his mind?

Life is so hard. I see it everywhere. I see the homeless people on the street. I see how tragically humans have hurt the earth. How terribly they hurt each other. I also know how lucky I was. I would take my privilege for granted.

What a horrible feeling that is, to know that if the disease had primarily affected PTA presidents, or priests, or white teenage girls, the epidemic would have been ended years earlier, and tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of lives would have been saved.

Subhumans, it was believed, are beings that lack that special something that makes us human. Because of this deficit, they don't command the respect that we, the truly human beings, are obliged to grant one another. They can be enslaved, tortured, or even exterminated—treated in ways in which we could not bring ourselves to treat those whom we regard as members of our own kind. This phenomenon is called dehumanization.

La belleza no se halla repartida de forma democrática.

Cuál es la utilidad de ser bueno con un pobre? Preguntó Cicerón.

establishing fixed racial hierarchies, such as the German composer Richard Wagner in Judaism in Music (1850) and the French diplomat Arthur de Gobineau in Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races (1853–1855).

There are only two classes - first class and no class.

When I'm told such stories, it's all I can do to hold back my feelings of jealousy. An Ethiopian slaughterhouse. Some people have all the luck.

The man spoke with an accent, and though I couldn't exactly place it, I knew that he was poor. His voice had snakes in it. And dysentery, and mangoes.

My argument was an old and stodgy one: the best thing you can do for the poor is avoid joining their ranks, thus competing with them for limited goods and services.

People at the apex felt unbridled contempt for the people who spent their lives laboring to support their "betters" in the style to which they had become accustomed. After all, if those lesser being had mattered, they'd have been the ones making the decisions, right? The fact that they weren't was directly attributable to their inherent inferiority and general stupidity, not the inequality of opportunity.

Rage swept over her at being young, young and little, as if some evil fairy had put that spell on her. Why must you be locked up in this dreadful cage of childhood for twenty or a hundred years? Nothing in life was possible unless you were old and rich, until then you were only small and futile before your tormentors, desperately waiting for the release that only years could bring.

These people walk by a window deformed by leprosy begging for a few paise, walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, Business as usual But if they perceive a slight against God, it is a different story.

People aren't poor because they make bad choices. They make bad choices because they're poor.

There are so many different ways to be poor

Class is a bubble, formed by privilege, shaping and manipulating, your conception of reality.

It's a shadow life and after a while it gets to you. Nannies, assistants, agents, secretaries, mothers---women are used to it. Men have a lower tolerance.

I thought of that William Gibson quote: "The future is already here—it's just not evenly distributed yet.

Extreme inequality fractures communities, and after a while the cracks gape so wide the whole edifice comes tumbling down.

People are not poor because they've made bad choices, my mother liked to say, they make bad choices because they're poor.

Poverty is not just a headline, my love, it's a lived reality, on the ground—and education is at the heart of it." "I