Quotes About Inequality

everything was getting worse: the climate, the economy, crime, drugs, you know. I didn't believe we would be allowed to sit behind our walls, looking clean and fat and rich to the hungry, thirsty, homeless, jobless, filthy people outside.

They look at us as though we smell and they don't.

This is the dark side of the "American dream." We blame the poor, accusing them of being poor because they do not work hard enough. Yet for the most part, the poor have less because the rich have taken more.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

the laws govern the poor, and the rich govern the law

By far the most significant consequence of "selfish capitalism" (Thatch/Blatcherism) has been a startling increase in the incidence of mental illness in both children and adults since the 1970s.

Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder. … And that is war in a nutshell. The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.

What we object to is the division of society into two classes, of which one class owns the capital, and the other performs the labor.

I know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so ancient it even extends to language.

There is no sadder symbol of the crippling poverty in which millions of peasants were forced to live than the image of a peasant and his son struggling to drag a plough through the mud.

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

For the first time in my life I realized what a horrible, miserable, salvationless hell it is to be without money.

The clash between rich and poor is a hackneyed enough subject, but I am now convinced that it really is one of the eternal themes of drama.

Greed did not cover it, nor did vanity. Nor was it simply a combination of lust and greed. I wasn't sure what it was, but I felt that there was something inexplicable at the bottom of human society which was not reducible to economics.

He's probably quite good at mathematical calculations, but he doesn't seem to have ever handled accounts of money. Because we have always been poor,

Incluso ahora pienso que los enfrentamientos entre pobres y ricos es un tema de parece caduco, pero que siempre formará parte de las tragedias

Poverty and scholarship have always gone hand in hand, it seems, and one can't help but wonder why that might be.

Some people are great aristocrats who have no other title than the one that nature has bestowed on them, and others like us, who have nothing but titles, are closer to being pariahs than aristocrats.

Poverty and scholarship, it would seem, have always gone hand in hand, and one can't help but wonder why that should be.

Who are jails made for? Only poor people are put in jails! They are probably just the weak and honest people who don't know how to trick others. Just because they aren't craft or evil enough to get by through tricking other people, they get driven into a corner and end up doing something stupid, like stealing two or three yen. And for that they have to go to jail for five or ten years!

We have never preached violence, except the violence of love, which left Christ nailed to a cross, the violence that we must each do to ourselves to overcome our selfishness and such cruel inequalities among us. The violence we preach is not the violence of the sword, the violence of hatred. It is the violence of love, of brotherhood,the violence that wills to beat weapons into sickles for work.

No matter how good we get at solving environmental problems, it's not enough to create a truly sustainable economy unless we address the social challenges that imperil sustainability. Foremost among those challenges are inequality and poverty.

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.