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Quotes About Inequality

In capitalist nation, all is decided by money.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Pygmy
This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.
~ Alice Walker
People live in different worlds. There's a rich world, there's a poor world, and there's an extremely poor. The one you dwell is determined by the outcome of your sacrifice.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
We are generally treated based on how much or little we have, earn, or know—or seem to have, earn, or know.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
People are dying of starvation and famine.And you have a MASSERATTI!
~ Anthony T. Hincks
In this avaricious world, even a beggar needs money in his bowl, to be heard.
~ Jawwad Zafar
Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man's yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The rich control our politics to a huge extend. In return they get tax cuts and deregulation. It's been and is an amazing ride for the rich.
~ Jeffrey D. Sachs
There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
~ Sophocles, Antigone
She lacked the sheen of money, muscular good health, good skin, good clothes.
~ Jean Hanff Korelitz, Admission
In the past people used to rob banks, now the banks rob the people.
~ David Alejandro Fearnhead
We are just peasants with money.
~ A.H. Septimius
That's the funny thing about stealing money---it always seems to be the rich people who have the most of it.
~ Ari Marmell, Lost Covenant
Who's poorer, the one who begs for money or those who have not enough to give away? Or are they reflecting one another and the same nature?
~ Robin Sacredfire
For the first time in my life I realized what a horrible, miserable, salvationless hell it is to be without money.
~ Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
The man who is receiving the money is getting rich and the guy who is giving the money is getting poorer
~ Sunday Adelaja
Proverbs 22:7 "The rich rule over the poor and the borrower is slave to the lender."Galatians 5:1 "do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
~ The Holy Bible
WoyzeckUs poor people. Yes, money, money. You see, Captain, if you have no money. Try raising someone like me in this world on morals alone. Man is also flesh and blood.
~ Georg Büchner, Woyzeck
Rich gets richer with the expenses of the poorest
~ Pradeepa Pandiyan
Rich or poor, money rules with an iron fist.
~ Gary Hopkins
We live in a world where we give our pounds to those who have too much and our pennies to those who have too little
~ Dean Griffiths
It is the law of wealth that such people only profit from the money that is taken from them.
~ E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime
The rich are poor without the poor's acknowledgment of money.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Life humbles the rich by giving them problems that money can't resolve, or, dissolve. Life enslaves the poor by giving them problems that money can resolve, or, dissolve.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana