Quotes About Inequality

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.

I'm not worried about the Third World War. That's the Third World's Problem.

Not a Harvard-type education, just a not-sticking-up-a-liquor-store-type education.

Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

You have 62 people worth the amount the bottom three and a half billion people are worth. Sixty-two people! You could put them all in one bloody bus… then crash it!

He's so outta my league, we're not even playing the same sport… He's professional soccer in Europe and I'm intramural badminton in the States.

Relative poverty is when you have more taste than money.

There is no point in poverty if it does not make a rich man, observing it, feel better.

If you owe ten pounds to the Bank of England, you get thrown in jail, but if you owe a million pounds, they invite you to sit on the Board

It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.

Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.

Except for its worst inner-city slums, America is not the primitive capitalist jungle of European imagination, where human beings slink away like wounded animals to die in bloodstained holes.

Happy white peoples independence day the slaves weren't free but I'm sure they enjoyed fireworks.

Nigeria is like everywhere, really: there are some beautiful places that have been invested in and others that haven't been.

The poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a different social order.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

The walls are the publishers of the poor.

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

Your problems pale in comparison with those of the millions of people in the world who do not have enough to eat.

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.