Quotes About Inequality

If wealth were the creation of individuals alone - even if it were the result of their ability to cheat and steal from one another - it would fall to earth in the shape of a bell curve. It would not land in the form of an insane ski slope.

The task of the 9.9 percent is to lubricate the machinery that administers the pain—and then to suggest by example that the 90 percent have a shot at the joining them in a life of ease, if only they would work just a little harder.

And self-delusion in the upper economic reaches of the left risks turning the Democratic Party into a home for an affluent, educated elite that seeks to correct every form of injustice except the inequality

Human beings are not built to function in a radically unequal world.

An orderly approach to cardio vascular disease, according to Beach, was to first relieve the inequality in the circulation, so that the burden is removed from the heart. After this has been accomplished, it is possible to see the real condition of the heart, and to treat it with heart-specific remedies, if necessary.

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

le monde pourrait nourrir 1,5 milliard de pauvres en leur consacrant le milliard de tonnes de céréales qui nourrit le bétail destiné à l'abattage.

Mr. Kilt, editor of the Ottawa Citizen, in October of last year. Listen to this. 'What hope is there for a society with such extremes of wealth and poverty as our civilization shows? At the bottom rotting, corroding want and squalor; at the top, enervating luxury, reckless extravagance, useless purposeless lives.

Since the baby boomer generation, the middle-income group has grown smaller with each successive generation

To people at the top, the scariest thing is how many people there are below.

Allied powers provided for their own peoples levels of nourishment which they denied to others, including societies notionally under their protection.

This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty.

Some people unable to go to school were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors.

novels, like racists, tend to be the same wherever you turn," writes William Giraldi,

The poor work to make money for the rich, the middle class work to make money for themselves, the rich make money from other people's work.

What annoys me most is that it takes no effort to be born beautiful, no hard work, no mental agility, no strength of character. Just dumb luck. And yet it's a universal currency, often mistaken for moral superiority.

I always thought talent was everything, but maybe it was always money. Or even class. Or if not class exactly, connections.

I know we live in a very sexist world, and a lot of boys do nothing except get in trouble, until one day they grow up and dominate every aspect of society," Ash said. "But girls, at least while they're still girls and perform well, seem to do everything better for a while.

I know we live in a very sexist world, and a lot of boys do nothing except get in trouble, until one day they grow up and dominate every aspect of society. But girls, at least while they're still girls and perform well, seem to do everything better for a while. Seem to get the attention.

The problem is that I love men passionately, even though they don't deserve it.

doesn't he come for us? Why does he want us to be poor?

hypocritical laws that made a woman pay for a man's crime. Why should women "receive the punishment due to the vices of so large a portion of the rest"?

A society which has poor people on its streets is a failed society!

A stomach without bread and a purse without gold have led to so many revolutions in history.