Quotes About Inequality

The possession of wealth confers honor; it is an invidious distinction.

Only the poor are handicapped by honor.

For the criminal who is weak and poor the narrow cell of death awaits; but honor and glory await the rich who conceal their crimes behind their gold and silver and inherited glory.

The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.

Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to get insulted.

A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he only means that, as in the above case, it places them in incongruous positions.

Understandably, no peace can sustained when people continue to suffer from hunger, lack of jobs, lack of basic public services - and most of all - lack of opportunity or hope.

It is as difficult for most poor people to truly believe that they could someday escape poverty as it is for most wealthy people to truly believe that their wealth could someday escape them.

But these are sad times, the 'prentices wanting to be masters, and every little tradesman wanting to be a Senator, and every dirty little urchin thinking he can giveimpudence to his betters!

Most poverty is a lack of opportunity.

The lowest stage of humanity is experienced when the individual must labour for a small pittance of wages from others.

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

Capitalism is the worst enemy of humanity.

I ask you to ensure that humanity is served by wealth, and not ruled by it.

The international community... allows nearly 3 billion people - almost half of all humanity - to subsist on $2 or less a day in a world of unprecedented wealth.

Poverty is a plague against which humanity must fight without cease.

In this, of all the countries in the world, possession of inordinate wealth by individuals should be held as a crime against Indian humanity.

Every system using data separates humanity into winners and losers.

Under communism, no one would be living in marginal conditions as they do under capitalism today and where the greatest part of humanity lives.

Poverty is curable, but it's just not done, because it's not profitable. And that is the kind of violence that's perpetuated on humanity.

Poverty. Racism. Isn't it strange, only the homeless are begging for change?

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.