Quotes About Inequality

All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.

Partly, identity politics is a result of economic failure.

Working class communities, like the one I grew up in, have long felt the disproportionate and cumulative impacts of pollution.

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.

The rich rob the poor, and the poor rob one another.

Money is a poor man's credit card.

Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.

My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

The differences in income between the poor world and the rich world are so great that people have to be interested.

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which.

If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.

Money is just the poor man's credit card.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.

These places I've seen have clubbed my mind - they are so poor and depressing. I don't know what we can do to help these people, but we've got to do something.

Gentrification is a problem of poor planning.

One big mistake that we made in Delhi is that we made it a low-rise city which means that rich people have nice green colonies while the poor live in dusty areas.

God chooses to arrive among the poor and the insignificant and the politically awkward, so what are we missing when we overlook them?

The globalization that has rescued so many in poor countries has harmed some people in rich countries, as factories and jobs migrated to where labor is cheaper.