Quotes About Inequality

We used to fuss when the landlord dissed us No heat. Wonder why Christmas missed us Birthdays was the worst days Now we sip champagne when we thirst-ay.

We celebrate the birth of one who told us to give everything to the poor by giving each other motorized tie racks.

Is this something else our age does - on the one hand make communication easier than ever before, while on the other hand widening the gulf between those who are 'developed' and those who are not?

When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill.

I'm Death, and I make sure that everyone is equal.

Poverty is the worst form of death.

I don't really frick with Africa cause people are starving to death and that's not ballin' to me.

It's unconscionable to breed with the number of children who are starving to death in impoverished countries.

What is disgraceful and outrageous is that 18,000 children die of hunger every day, every one of them a preventable death. That's what the controversy should be about.

Workers and their families may starve to death in the New World Order of economic rationality, but diamond necklaces are cheaper in elegant New York shops, thanks to the miracle of the market.

The most dreadful thing of all is that many millions of people in the poor countries are going to starve to death before our eyes. We shall see them doing so upon our television sets.

When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.

And death makes equal the high and low.

There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don't hear them whinging.

The sole equality on earth is death.

If the rich could hire others to die for them we, the poor, would all make a nice living.

The number of homeless in America couldn't touch the number of Americans who had homes and families and hated the whole thing.

Everything that highly educated men can do to obscure a simple truth, to make a woman doubt her feelings, to make her own thoughts a muddle, they do to her. They use their learning as a hurdle to herd her one way and then the other and then finally trap her in contradictions of which she can make no sense.

why the United States, the wealthiest nation in the world, has emerged as a pressure cooker for producing destitute addicts embroiled in everyday violence. Our challenge is to portray the full details of the agony and the ecstasy of surviving on the street as a heroin injector without beatifying or making a spectacle of the individuals involved

Nous passons notre temps à oublier, à oublier que nous vivons sur un planète limitée à laquelle nous appliquons un principe illimité, ce qui accélère le processus d'épuisement des ressources et d'accroissement des inégalités structurelles, source de mécontentements, de frustrations et de conflits.

Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave had kings among his ancestors.

Wealth, and poverty; the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

when equality is given to unequal things, the resultant will be unequal...

whenever there are any taxes, the one who's just pays more tax on an equal amount of property, the other less, and whenever [343E] there are allotments, the former gains nothing, the latter a lot.