Quotes About Inequality

I believe that oligarchy follows next in order. And what manner of government do you term oligarchy? A government resting on a valuation of property, in which the rich have power and the poor man is deprived of it. I

might is still right, but the might is the weakness of the many combined against the strength of the few.

No science or art considers or enjoins the interest of the stronger or superior, but only the interest of the subject and weaker

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

All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth

The right is nothing more than what benefits the powerful.

This fills me with anger, although I already know that it is in the normal order of things that the privileged oppress the unprivileged: the social structure of the camp is based on this human law.

Dat maakt me woedend, hoewel ik toch allang weet dat het in de orde der dingen ligt dat de bevoorrechten de niet-bevoorrechten onderdrukken: op die mensenwet berust de sociale structuur van het kamp.

Rich kids—they can never admit they're rich.

Sit with a merchant or sit with a beggar, and it'll always be the beggar who buys your first drink.

Some starve. Some eat. Disparity is simply the order of things. It's only when fat men make sauce out of other's starvation that it becomes a sin.

Rich men don't look at people like us as human beings; we're pieces they move, levers they pull to get what they want.

She's sad in the way Laura wears glasses and Max has freckles and Beth is retarded. There's no reason, it's just the way it is.

Poverty smothers our dreams even before we have finished dreaming them.

They spent billions on the problem, with no effect other than to greatly enrich their friends and create more homeless people.

In a world of rampant lying, where so many lies are used to inflame passions and justify false grievances, the indiscriminate pursuit of justice leads sooner or later to insanity, mass murder, and the ruin of entire civilizations. Therefore, those who wish to punish the current and future generations for the unequities of a generation long gone, and who equate justice with revenge, are the most dangerous people in the world.

Human life must be cheap to the one who can place the dollar above it -John Ruston

There's never been a war in the history of the world that wasn't started by the wealthy for the wealthy

people wandering the streets with their heads shot off by money.

the house looked shoddy in comparison with its neighbors. It stood out in the elegant street of terraced houses like a meatball in caviar.

Lamont, like the judge?" He tipped his head in embarrassment and looked away quickly. She smiled kindly at him. The two great sources of shame: privilege and penury.

L.A. burns, and so many other cities smolder, waiting for the hose that will flood gasoline over the coals, and we listen to politicians who fuel our hate and our narrow views and tell us it's simply a matter of getting back to basics while they sit in their beachfront properties and listen to the surf so they won't have to hear the screams of the drowning.

Race don't come into it. They keep us fighting among ourselves like dogs for table scraps so we won't catch them making off with the feast.

But how come it's always the poor who are expected to eat the food that's good for them no matter how it tastes?