Quotes About Inequality

Crime is a product of social excess.

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

Those who live by the labor of others are taught by religion to practice charity while on earth, thus offering them a very cheap way of justifying their entire existence as exploiters and selling them at a moderate price tickets to well-being in heaven. Religion is opium for the people. Religion is a sort of spiritual booze, in which the slaves of capital drown their human image, their demand for a life more or less worthy of man.

The bourgeoisie are today evading taxation by bribery and through their connections; we must close all loopholes.

Under capitalism democratism is restricted, cramped, curtailed, mutilated by all the conditions of wage slavery and of the poverty and misery of the masses

Bourgeois democracy, although a great historical advance in comparison with medievalism, always remains, and under capitalism is bound to remain, restricted, truncated, false and hypocritical, a paradise for the rich and a snare and deception for the exploited, for the poor.

Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich: this is the democratism of capitalist society.

Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich -- that is the democracy of capitalist society.

Obviously, out of such enormous superprofits (since they are obtained over and above the profits which capitalists squeeze out of the workers of their "own" country) it is possible to bribe the labour leaders and the upper stratum of the labour aristocracy. And that is just what the capitalists of the "advanced" countries are doing: they are bribing them in a thousand different ways, direct and indirect, overt and covert.

Os escravos assalariados de hoje, em conseqüência da exploração capitalista, vivem por tal forma acabrunhados pelas necessidades e pela miséria, que nem tempo têm pa-ra se ocupar de "democracia" ou de "política"; no curso normal e pacífico das coisas a maioria da população se encontra afastada da vida política e social.

The only thing the white men lack is something black.

The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

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

History supplies little beyond a list of those who have accommodated themselves with the property of others.

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

The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of the citizens to give to the other.

That's how life is. Some dogs get treats for doing almost nothing, and some dogs are good dogs and get no treats at all.

Say this city has ten million souls, Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes: Yet there's no place for us, my dear, yet there's no place for us. Once we had a country and we thought it fair, Look in the atlas and you'll find it there: We cannot go there now, my dear, we cannot go there now.

Colonies like the Carolina settlement included the right to own African people in their charters. Early in colonial America, some poor whites worked without wages as indentured servants. The practice died out, however, and indentured servants eventually earned their freedom. Colonial law regarded African men and women as chattel, literally "movable property" like a cow or a wagon.

Say this city has ten million souls, Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes: Yet there's no place for us, my dear, yet there's no place for us.

Unfortunately, the way the world is constructed, a lot of people have no chance, from day one.

If you are low income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than getting a 4-year degree.

The 60th seed at Wimbledon gets a chance at Center Court. The 60th seed in the NCAA gets a chance to go to the Final Four. But the third seed [in presidential politics] is shut out.

It will be interesting to have chance to view and the places from rich and poor to see what happens... if somebody knows the chance to do it it's smaller than before.