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Quotes About Inequality

Men are the enemies of women. Promising sublime intimacy, unequalled passion, amazing security and grace, they nevertheless exploit and injure in a myriad subtle ways. Without men the world would be a better place: softer, kinder, more loving; calmer, quieter, more humane.
~ Ann Oakley
The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.
~ Robert Graves
The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beautiful ladies by ugly ones.
~ Chanakya
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.
~ Dick Van Dyke
Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing they marry later; for another thing they die earlier.
~ Henry Louis Mencken
I see seven people in one room and one pregnant and people fucking anyway because people so poor that they can't even afford shame and I wait
~ Marlon James
Reason is for rich people. We have madness.
~ Marlon James
the ghetto should never come with a photo. The Third World slum is a nightmare that defies beliefs or facts, even the ones staring right at you. A vision of hell that twists and turns on itself and grooves to its own soundtrack.
~ Marlon James
They like him better when he was the poor cousin that they can feel good for taking notice. I tell him that politician do the same thing to me when they realize me can read.
~ Marlon James
Everybody know that condom and birth control was white man scheme to kill off black people, but he don't care.
~ Marlon James
Preacher says there is a god-shaped void in everybody life but the only thing ghetto people can fill a void with is void.
~ Marlon James
killing don't need no reason. This is ghetto. Reason is for rich people. We have madness. Madness
~ Marlon James
And all I could think of is Oh Lord here it comes, another white man about to tell me about how much he enjoyed Ocho Rios, but would have enjoyed it so much more if it weren't for all the poverty. And the country is so beatiful and the people so friendly and even in all this tragedy everybody still manages a smile especially the bombor'asscloth children.
~ Marlon James
Police only have to see that me don't have no shoes before he say what the bloodcloth you nasty naiggers doing 'round decent people, and give me two choices.
~ Marlon James
Humans have these notions of power, control, hierarchy, greed, anger, envy, lust, etc. It really is quite bizarre where these tendencies lead us. We have human billionaires on planet earth who choose to gather more and more wealth at the expense of everyone else. But why? Once all of a person's human needs have been supplied, to unimaginable levels of luxury, what is the point of having more? To have power and control over other humans?
~ Unknown
Affluence creates poverty.
~ Marshall McLuhan
Money is just the poor man's credit card.
~ Marshall McLuhan
Money is a poor man's credit card.
~ Marshall McLuhan
I took one look at his composed face and know he doesn't understand, because if he did understand, he would be weeping, too, for this boy who loved a world that never loved him.
~ Unknown
We also have to factor in that candidates do not always compete on an equal footing: those who have access to the media or use the state apparatus for their campaigns have an important advantage in relation to everyone else.
~ Unknown
La desigualdad son siglos de aprenderla.
~ Unknown
W rezultacie subsydia prze?o?y?y si? na liczby, o których zrobi?o si? g?o?no. Catholic Agency for Overseas Development, CAFOD, Katolicka Agencja na rzecz Rozwoju, przeprowadzi?a w 2002 roku analiz?, która wykaza?a, ?e jedna krowa europejska otrzymuje od Unii oko?o 2,2 dolara na dzie? - 800 rocznie. Czyli ka?da z tych krów by?a bogatsza ni? 3,5 miliarda ludzi, po?owa ludno?ci ?wiata.
~ Unknown