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Quotes About Inequality

Only the powerless live in a money culture and know nothing about money.
~ Phyllis Chesler
The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.
~ Fay Vincent
Money, so they say, is the root of all evil today. But if you ask for a rise it's no surprise that they're giving none away.
~ Roger Waters
Surely there never was so evil a thing as money, which maketh cities into ruinous heaps, and banisheth men from their houses, and turneth their thoughts from good unto evil.
~ Sophocles
God knows I've had productions where there were actors in my plays who were making more money per week than I was.
~ Tony Kushner
That's where the economy is going. It went somewhere. Just not to America. And the money made? That went to the Cayman Islands and Switzerland. Not back here. Never to be taxed.
~ Henry Rollins
Capitalism is like Japanese Knotweed: nothing kills it off. If there were only two people left on the planet, one of them would find a way of making money out of the other.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Whenever people with money have power over people with less money, you have the potential for exploitation.
~ Jennifer Weiner
When I was in jail I could only think about what the average person has to go through - the person who has no power to go to the press or no money to hire a lawyer.
~ Josh Brolin
The value of money is a scam perpetrated by those who have it over those who don't
~ Karen Joy Fowler
Sometimes I think that all mankind exist but to be bought and sold: The rich man's paramour is gold, the poor man's goddess, gold, gold, gold.
~ Ridgely Torrence
Seems those with money who don't worry about money have big walls.
~ Robert Genn
1% of the population has all the money and the other 99% have nothing.
~ Ron Perlman
There is now a fairly crowded field out there of people who are incredibly wealthy that are giving money to advance their own political agendas.
~ Steve Kroft
It's become absolutely horrible the way the people with the money decide they can fart in the kitchen.
~ Steven Soderbergh
Why give you the cure when the disease makes money?
~ Talib Kweli
[P]ride is something only folk with money can afford.
~ Tamora Pierce
A cynic had defined aid as simply the system by which poor white people in rich countries gave money to rich black people in poor countries to put into Swiss bank accounts.
~ Wilbur Smith
Democracy is held captive, not just by money, but by ideas - the ideas that money buys.
~ William Greider
Using money in one's attempt to put an end to poverty is like using a border in one's attempt to put an end to xenophobia.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
~ George Bernard Shaw
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor.
~ Oscar Wilde
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
~ George Bernard Shaw
...without money you cannot fight money.
~ John Steinbeck, East of Eden