Quotes About Inequality

Litigation: A form of hell whereby money is transferred from the pockets of the proletariat to that of lawyers.

Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.

He's a machine for competitive balance, ... Yes, the money is in New York. Yes, the money is in his hands. But he squanders money. Thank God for it.

People got to realize that the owners who been paying me are a lot richer than I am. It's not like I was born rich; I had to play basketball to make this type of money.

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

The rich are different than you and me: they have more money and they have more power.

Love, it turns out, is as undemocratic as money, so it accumulates around people who have plenty of it already: the sane, the healthy, the lovable.

Society can transport money from rich to poor only in a leaky bucket

'Get a Job' is about all the rich kids we knew when we were younger, kids who never had jobs but always had money for partying or getting their hair done.

Nothing so denies a person liberty as the total absence of money.

Perhaps the greatest difference among people is between those who never have to worry about money and those who do.

The poor are the only ones who suffer. And they're used to it.

It's horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if you're not famous or rich, you're not acceptable.

The money is with people who have taken advantage of every single break in the tax code.

People who can least afford to pay rent, pay rent. People who can most afford to pay rent, build up equity.

Banks have never made money in the history of banking, losing the equivalent of all their past profits periodically - while bankers strike it rich.

If I were a Brazilian without land or money or the means to feed my children, I would be burning the rain forest too.

And it's very, very funny When you've lots and lots of money To be horrible to those with none! Be horrible to those with none!

All new money is made through the shifting of social classes and the dispossession of old classes.

There's a small group of guys in hip-hop that really have money. The whole culture talks about money, but it's a small group that actually has it.

Money can be fickle, having a lasting relationship with a few and a brief fling with others, while just flirting with the rest of us.

I am very fortunate I can send my kids to private school, but everybody does not have the money. If you cannot get your kid in a good school today, your kids are going to be behind the eight ball.

I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that puts them at an advantage over the poor.

There's a pretty equitable distribution in the restaurant industry of how money gets paid, except for in the kitchen. The kitchen is the lowest-paid group of people.