Quotes About Inequality

In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it.

It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat sh** and die.

The tax code is not the only area where the administration is helping the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It has spent $155 billion for an unnecessary war driven by fear.

A lot of people don't understand how a lot of money is being made. There's a combination of fear related to that, envy, distrust that gets filtered into that.

If we become tow people-the suburban affluent and the urban poor, each filled with mistrust and fear of the other-then we shall effectively cripple each generation to come.

Nothing makes us angrier than the fear that some pleasure is being enjoyed by others but forever denied to us.

You know it's funny when it rains it pours. They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor.

Life is not fair; get used to it.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

every social class has its own pathology...

But, as my sister says, 'there must always be poor people so that now that I'm rich I can shit on them.

He said it hit him travelling one time in the year or so before he met my mother. Whatever country of the world it was, the poor were starting to look alike, live alike, eat alike, and dress alike in the same kind of clothes all made in the same part of China. To him, it was a sign that the people had got severed from the land.

anything with a whiff of redneck or white trash upsets me so much that I hope never to be close to any of its components.

That's one of therapy's cruel aspects: the therapist is unique to you, but not the other way around. How unfair. It's the most unequal relationship you could imagine.

Interesante como a divisão de classes cria rituais próprios, que aumentam a distância entre elas.

Those who steal from private individuals spend their lives in stocks and chains those who steal from the public treasure go dressed in gold and purple.

In his book Average Is Over, economist Tyler Cowen sees a future in which high earners are those who "get" computers and information technology. Low earners, he argues, will be those who don't—the less technologically adept who will be forced to work in jobs attending to the needs and wants of the high earners.

You know that big government doesn't hurt big corporations. They've got the best lawyers and accountants in the world. You know who gets destroyed by big government? It's the little guys.

Somebody said (but if it were not said, then I say it now), that " the laws of our civilization have but one interpretation for the poor and ignorant and for those of wealth and power, there are many interpretations, hence the poor are generally convicted on the one, while the rich are freed on the many interpretations.

It's been said that only the very rich understand the difference between themselves and the poor, and only the truly brilliant understand the difference between themselves and the relatively dumb.

It's been said that only the very rich understand the difference between themselves and the poor, and only the truly brilliant understand the difference between themselves and the relatively dumb. Well, only men who have gone through

Belongs to a guy named Joseph Stiglitz.

Hell was born when some decided others weren't people.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.