Quotes About Inequality

The gap in our economy is between what we have and what we think we ought to have — and that is a moral problem, not an economic one.

There are men in frock coats and top hats with the blood of the world on their hands, and they eat with silver forks and white napkins every day, and they will give up their last breath in a linen-made bed whilst the ones they sent out to die lie forgotten in the earth, mouldering bones with the poppies fat and red above 'em. Ah, mankind.

The rich are different from you and me: they have more influence.

Wealthy Americans who benefit hugely from a system rigged in their favor react with hysteria to anyone who points out just how rigged the system is.

For most Americans, economic growth is a spectator sport.

Our epoch has been called the century of work. It is in fact the century of pain, misery and corruption.

Yoksul uluslarda halk?n rahat? yerindedir. Zengin uluslardaysa, halk, genellikle yoksuldur.

Les philanthropes acclament bienfaiteurs de l'humanité ceux qui, pour s'enrichir en fainéantant, donnent du travail aux pauvres.

Qui sert la bourgeoisie ne sert pas les hommes.

The United States drove itself to civil war because the society valued profits over Black humanity,

Oh my God. I love rich people. And royalty are the best because they're rich people who can't be fires.

Class, she reminded herself, was the real marker in America.

Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax government transfer payments have become less progressive.

Never be too amusing. An unfettered sense of humor is on the whole thought to be a good thing only for the poor - for the rich a sense of humor is a disaster.

One man's ceiling is another man's floor.

Your country is ridden with class prejudices.

La guerre, c'est le massacre de gens qui ne se connaissent pas, au profit de gens qui se connaissent et ne se massacrent pas.

Negentiende-eeuws concept: de caritasgedachte. Rijken moeten da armen helpen met giften - waarbij de armen wel arm dienen te blijven; hulp beperkt zich tot het leningen van materiële nood, sociale emancipatie blijft buiten beschouwing. Een caritatief denken - och god, die arme mensen - herdefinieert sociale problemen als armoedeproblemen.

It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.

She'd been noticing the feet of colored people ever since she'd come south. "They've been pressed down to the earth so hard," she said. "And the weight of what they carry tortures their feet.

Apparently, what differentiates the mere rich from the filthy rich is a servant who treats you like dirt.

And the newspapers, they say nothing about this at all or about the poor at all, Doris said. There are great holes in your newspapers. Nobody sees them. God sees them. The

Marx himself wrote that capitalism produces above all its own gravediggers. Do you think that perhaps he wasn't talking about capitalism?

Conditioned by the position of oppressing others, any situation other than their former seems to them like oppression. Formerly, they could eat, dress, wear shoes, be educated, travel, and hear Beethoven; while millions did not eat, had no clothes or shoes, neither studied nor traveled, much less listened to Beethoven.