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Quotes About Inequality

After all, what business did a penniless waiter have to be participating in a brain quiz? The brain is not an organ we are authorized to use. We are supposed to use only our hands and legs.
~ Vikas Swarup
And you spend your day going around from the house of the washerman to the house of the sweeper, asking about this one's son and that one's nephew, but spending no time with your own family. It is no secret that many people here think that you are a communist.' Rasheed reflected that this probably meant only that he loathed the poverty and injustice endemic to the village, and that he made no particular secret of it.
~ Vikram Seth
A poor man who marries a rich woman is not his wife, but a ruler.
~ Unknown
Death makes everybody's I.Q. the same.
~ Unknown
Death respects nobody.
~ Unknown
Education is the poor man's haven and the ignorant man's hell.
~ Unknown
God has never shown mercy on the poor.
~ Unknown
Money kills people more than weapons do.
~ Unknown
Society is made up of two classes those who get more than they earn and those earn more than they get.
~ Unknown
The person whose stomach is full does not know what a hungry person feels.
~ Unknown
It is a know fact that almost all revolutions have been the work, not of the common people, but of the aristocracy, and especially of the decayed part of the aristocracy.
~ Vilfredo Pareto
History is the graveyard of aristocracies.
~ Vilfredo Pareto
The sentiment that is very inappropriately named quality is fresh, strong, alert, precisely because it is not, in fact, a sentiment of equality and is not related to any abstraction, as a few naive "intellectuals" still believe; but because it is related to the direct interests of individuals who are bent on escaping certain inequalities not in their favour, and setting up new inequalities that will be in their favour, that latter being their chief concern.
~ Vilfredo Pareto
blackie's fuzzy head and kick him in the butt and tell him to go pick cotton and go be a good nigger, and we would live happily ever after…" The Family, now grown to 144,000, as predicted in the Bible—a pure, white master race—would emerge from the bottomless pit. And "It would be our world then. There would be no one else, except for us and the black servants.
~ Vincent Bugliosi
It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor, rich and those of the rich, poor.
~ Vinoba Bhave
Many women have become teachers who never should have, because it's more appealing than working in the mills or in the fields. Yet, their students suffer." "Because
~ Unknown
Les femmes autour de moi gagnent effectivement moins d'argent que les hommes, occupent des postes subalternes, trouvent normal d'être sous-considérées quand elles entreprennent quelque chose. Il y a une fierté de domestique à devoir avancer entravées, comme si c'était utile, agréable ou sexy.
~ Virginie Despentes
cuando afirmamos que la prostitución es una «violencia contra las mujeres» es para que olvidemos que es el matrimonio lo que constituye una violencia contra las mujeres y, de modo general, todo lo que aguantamos.
~ Virginie Despentes
Le prostitute costituiscono l'unico proletariato la cui condizione commuove tanto la borghesia
~ Virginie Despentes
C'est quand même épatant, et pour le moins moderne, un dominant qui vient chialer que le dominé n'y met pas assez du sien...
~ Virginie Despentes
Capitalists can buy themselves out of any crisis, so long as they make the workers pay
~ Unknown
America, like a few other nations, has become characteristic for the depth of the abyss that divide a handful of brutal millionaires who are stagnating in a mire of luxury, and millions of laboring starving men and women who are always staring want in the face.
~ Unknown
The more democratic the system of government is, the clearer it will be to the workers that the root of the evil is not the lack of rights, but capitalism.
~ Unknown
Imperialism: The final stage of Capitalism.
~ Unknown