Quotes About Inequality

Also, in global wealth distribution, less than 10% of the world's population controls more than 90% of the world's assets, varying from country to country. Even in our daily work lives, 20% of all actions we do contribute to 80% of our daily results. Richard

Taxi drivers told you what to buy. The shoeshine boy could give you a summary of the day's financial news as he worked with rag and polish. An old beggar who regularly patrolled the street in front of my office now gave me tips and, I suppose, spent the money I and others gave him in the market. My cook had a brokerage account and followed the ticker closely.

If a drug dealer falls in West Baltimore and no one is there to hear him, does he make a sound?

He'd discovered the devil's yellow cake in grade school during lunch. Everyone's mother but his had packed their little Americans off to school with these cellophane-wrapped loaves of gold. All Mo ever got was an apple he'd snap into with

On the other hand, Clairaut reported that Lepaute exhibited an "ardor" that was "surprising"—perhaps surprising to him because Lepaute was a woman; he later removed the acknowledgment of Lepaute's considerable contribution from the published text. (Much of her later work was published without attribution by other people, including her husband, France's royal clockmaker.)

That's what it's like being poor—choices are something you sit around and dream about having, some day after you strike it rich.

What is it with rich people thinking they can starve the poor into good behavior?

They tell us to count our blessings whilst they count the coffers

The politics of redistribution is being replaced by the politics of recognition. How much fun will it be to recognize how poor and atomized we all become!

There's more than enough for the many, but somehow never enough for the few

Art is wasted on those who can afford it

The only guaranteed "equality of outcome" in life is death.

We live in a world where we give our pounds to those who have too much and our pennies to those who have too little

Have you ever looked a starving beggar in the eye and thought that the privileges you enjoy are nothing more than a whim of the cosmos?

Poverty is often equated with liability. How cruel this world is?

The World of Today, Few People have Everything while Many People have Nothing.

It is not that I believe that there are too many idiots in this world, just that lightning isn't distributed right.

If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is their father.

Por eso estaba convencido de la necesidad de mantener la institución monárquica, porque pensaba que en un país con tantos esclavos, analfabetos y pobres, una república no tendría sentido y el país acabaría fragmentándose, como había sucedido en la América española.

La lección que Anita saca de la discusión con su marido es bien clara: la justicia es un lujo al alcance de muy pocos.

Ä°yilikte bir ÅŸey yok. Güzel ve zengin olunca elbette iyi olur insan. Mesele adil olmakta. Ama bu adaletsizlikte hizmetçi ol da iyi ol bakal?m!

Inequality is expensive for two reasons, one connected with justice and one with efficiency.

Wealth acquired by creating value for society is not equivalent to wealth that comes from economic rents. For example, a very important factor in the increasing inequality of wealth in many countries has been the increase in real estate prices.48 But the owner of a building, unlike the inventor of a new treatment for cancer, does not create value for society.

It is also difficult to define the boundaries within which we judge inequality.