Quotes About Inequality

The pendulum of economic power might well begin to shift from capital back to labor.

The Magicians Apprentice was about someone from the low end of society manifesting magical power and how that completely messes up the balance of the whole system.

Why people suffer thou the is government. It is because everyone fight into power to take care of themselves than to serve the people in need.

No system that implies control of society by privilege seekers has ever ended any other way but collapse

I began writing about power because I had so little.

They resented the patronage they depended upon.

The king who has the broad bean does not have one whole wafer. (Le roi qui a la fève - N'a la galette entière.)

Power has always corrupted, my dear. Even the promise of power. It is a hard thing to look at through the fence for hundreds of years without wondering what it would be like on the other side.

Laws decide wich forms of oppression are allowed, Lord. And because of that, those laws are servants to those in power, for whom oppression is given as a right over those who have little or no power.

Power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

Men have prayed in prison, men have prayed in slums and concentration camps. It's only the middle class who demand to pray in suitable surroundings.

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

Nosotros, los habitantes de este mundo tercero y postrero, no necesitamos el menor esfuerzo mental para saber en qué consiste el infierno de la opulenta sociedad de consumo, de la tersa y radiante sociedad industrial: nos basta con salir a la calle. Pasan con sus sucias mantas al hombro los hijos de la indigencia. Vienen de los basureros o van hacia ellos. Podemos imaginar los paisajes de apocalipsis donde transcurren sus vidas.

Colombia es hoy un país donde los pobres no pueden comer, la clase media no puede comprar y los ricos no pueden dormir.

Many of these children have low aspirational levels, lack those out-of-school experiences which are so richly provided when parents are in more favorable circumstances.…

We know poor and middle class children exhibit certain differences in styles of talking and thinking, but we do not know yet why or how these differences occur.

Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear;Robes and furr'd gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold,And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks;Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.

The age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe.

What infinite heart's easeMust kings neglect that private men enjoy!And what have kings that privates have not too,Save ceremony, save general ceremony?And what art thou, thou idol ceremony?What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st moreOf mortal griefs than do thy worshippers?What are thy rents? what are thy comings-in?O ceremony! show me but thy worth.

O, what a world of vile ill-favor'd faultsLooks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!

In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.

the road, rail, and port systems are so bad that poor countries cannot develop the scale of operations necessary to achieve high productivity.

The bigger story was competition causing more productive business enterprises to replace less productive ones...However, it provides even more reason to worry about all the people living in economies where protection and distortion of competition allow unproductive enterprises to persist and cause these people to fall further behind, but even more importantly, to remain in poverty.