Quotes About Inequality

Justice and fairness are like rain that falls more heavily on some people than others. People with umbrellas tend to stay dry. People on high ground avoid the flood. Rich people. Connected people.

There are people who can afford to eat healthfully and there are people who cannot. I'd say that represents a fundamental brokenness of our system and our food supply. It doesn't have to be like that.

Beware of critics of education who cloak their desire to protect privilege (and inequality) in the garb of educational reform.

Conant was concerned that the "particular functions" that might be assigned to young people would be dictated by the economic conditions of their families, and that over the generations this would result in ever-greater economic inequality. Such inequality would make it increasingly difficult for citizens to believe they had a "joint culture," and it would make the country more vulnerable to social unrest based on class division.

Letting rich countries buy their way out of meaningful changes in their own wasteful habits reinforces a bad attitude—that nature is a dumping ground for those who can afford it.

These two kinds of arguments reverberate through debates about what money should and should not buy. The fairness objection asks about the inequality that market choices may reflect; the corruption objection asks about the attitudes and norms that market relations may damage or dissolve.

Capitalism always draws from the cheap labor pool; the profit is greater when the expense is limited

I learned that it ruled by creating classes and dividing people, by making some better than others." "Hasn't it always been that way?" Josh asked. "Every civilization is divided…." "Not every civilization," Virginia snapped. "Only the so-called advanced ones.

The great white joker in the sky dooms us all to stupidity or poverty from birth. No two things on earth are equal or have an equal chance, not a leaf or a tree.

environmentalists were "self-righteous, elitist, neo-Malthusians who call for slow growth or no growth . . . and who would condemn the black underclass, the slum proletariat, and rural blacks, to permanent poverty."61

What ends up happening with a lot of progressive liberals in San Francisco," said Tom, "is they get to go home to their nice house in Noe Valley and six-figure job and kids in private school. They can afford to vote progressively for social justice because they don't have to walk their kids through the Tenderloin and play hopscotch over the feces and needles.

The evidence that much of what divides us is rooted in our biology was compiled by the evolutionary anthropologist (and Peruvian political adviser) Avi Tuschman, in his transdisciplinary work Our Political Nature, in which he identifies three primary and relatively permanent personality traits running throughout political beliefs: tribalism, tolerance for inequality, and one's view of human nature.

The pie is increasing in size, so everyone gets a bigger slice, but when the rich's already bigger slice increases in size, the relative amount of wealth accumulates more on the upper end, making the incomes of those in the middle and bottom feel smaller.

The Realistic Vision acknowledges that people vary widely both physically and intellectually—in large part because of natural inherited differences—and therefore will rise (or fall) to their natural levels. Therefore governmental redistribution programs are not only unfair to those from whom the wealth is confiscated and redistributed, but the allocation of the wealth to those who did not earn it cannot and will not work to equalize these natural inequalities.

What about the flip side of the economic ledger – the poor? Even Jesus gave up hope for them and offered only early entrance to heaven.

in a world increasingly swayed by private wealth and personal brands.

Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer." —Ludwig Von Mises

Au métro Sèvres-Babylone, j'ai vu un graffiti étrange: "Dieu a voulu des inégalités, pas des injustices", disait l'inscription. Je me suis demandé qui était cette personne si bien informée des desseins de Dieu.

La mort est le grand égalisateur

Igual que el liberalismo económico desenfrenado, y por motivos análogos, el liberalismo sexual produce fenómenos de empobrecimiento absoluto. Algunos hacen el amor todos los días; otros cinco o seis veces en su vida, o nunca. Algunos hacen el amor con docenas de mujeres; otros con ninguna. Es lo que se llama la «ley del mercado».

Su un muro della stazione Sèvres-Babylone ho visto uno strano graffito: DIO HA VOLUTO INEGUAGLIANZE, NON INGIUSTIZIE, c'era scritto. Mi sono chiesto chi potesse essere quella persona così bene informata sulle intenzioni di Dio.

en la mayoría de las ocasiones la transmisión del saber es imposible, la diversidad de las inteligencias es extrema y que nada puede suprimir ni siquiera atenuar esa desigualdad fundamental

What little private tutoring I'd done, to raise my standard of living, soon convinced me that the transmission of knowledge was generally impossible, the variance of intelligence extreme, and that nothing could undo or even mitigate this basic inequality.

Le capitalisme exploite. Et le capitalisme exploite les gens de couleur. Comme il exploite les hommes. Ou comme il exploite les femmes.