Quotes About Inequality

A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.

When you start peeling the onion and uncovering layers and layers of inequity that have been subsidized by government, it makes a lot of people uncomfortable.

The US government is usually on the wrong side against the poor and downtrodden, because the wrong side is the right side, given the class interests upon which the [US] policy is fixed.

It is not the role of government to use the taxation and welfare system as a tool to level the playing field.

A democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave.

When government tries to make people more equal, it makes them more unequal.

Big government helps the people who have made it. It doesn't help the people who are trying to make it; it crushes the people who are trying to make it.

Instead of taxing rich people, governments borrow from them, and pay them interest for the privilege.

American families cannot compete with billionaires. Our involvement in government should not be dependent on our bank account balances

How is the government going to get the extra taxes? Out of the rich, or just out of the poor, as usual?

Iran is a rich country, and if the people of this country are poor, it's because of the wrong policies of the government.

An initiative was essentially led by civil society because the policy of the government was that Africans must not be taught to graze in pastures which were reserved for the main white group.

Millions who endure poverty and bad government can now know what they are missing. To see how the other half lives all they have to do is switch on their television sets.

The more laws and restrictions there are, The poorer people become....The more rules and regulations, The more thieves and robbers.

Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside of Europe.

The rich get richer and the poor get - children.

Equity, dignity, happiness, sustainability - these are all fundamental to our lives but absent in the GDP.

Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

Happiness is often at its most intense when it is based on inequality.

The lower you are in the hierarchy the worse your health, the higher you are, the better your health.

We've got nearly 50 million people in America with no health insurance. That's a weapon of mass destruction.

Our health care is rationed by wealth.

The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.

Your longevity and health are more determined by your ZIP code than they are by your genetic code.