Quotes About Inequality

We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.

Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom.

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

Socialism cannot function, because its economic reward structure is contrary to human nature.

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

There's no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another.

That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in.

The very nature of the Chinaman holds him back. If his fellow should fall, John thinks it quite proper that he stamp on the underdogs face.

Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute.

"All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense.

Some people stride toward a better future. Others have chauffeurs.

I have no patience for those who say that poverty is a blessing. Poverty is the greatest curse on earth.

Wealth has never yet sacrificed itself on the altar of patriotism.

Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign

Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.

Excessive economic, social and cultural inequalities among peoples arouse tensions and conflicts, and are a danger to peace.

Why is it that countries which we call strong are so powerful in creating wars but are so weak in bringing peace? Why is it that giving guns is so easy but giving books is so hard?

Are some women and children going to die? Yeah. But it's doing the right thing. You got money, you sit around talking about peace. People who don't have money need some help.

Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?

As long as there are rich people who have poor people they can send to fight their wars.. We will never have peace

Racism is a stubborn whitehead on the face of society.

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.

Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.