Inequality Quotes

Inequality Quote of the day

Rich people read their bills. Poor people dread theirs.

If human equality is to be for ever averted — if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently — then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.

There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

I wonder why it is that the countries with the most nobles also have the most misery?

...distinction between growth and development. Aggregate growth in national economic indicators need not mean an improved life for the majority of the people.

Division and separation means no harm to the society. It makes everyone unique.

I'm convinced that not all units of time are equal.

The main force pushing toward reduction in inequality has always been the diffusion of knowledge and the diffusion of education.

If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?

The only true and sustainable prosperity is shared prosperity.

I think it's wrong that only one percent of the people should own ninety percent of the country.

Beware of critics of education who cloak their desire to protect privilege (and inequality) in the garb of educational reform.

People call me a feminist whenever I express statements that distinguish me from a doormat.

In a capitalist society there are always inequalities of class and wealth. People who inherit money and property will always see themselves as being superior to those who have to work for it.

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house

[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.

So long as tyranny exists, in whatever form, man's deepest aspiration must resist it as inevitably as man must breathe.

There’s no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another.

This is a battlefield, Faith! Women find themselves on battlefields, just as men do. We are given no weapons, and cannot be seen to fight. But fight we must, or perish.

If there were something that Mother Nature or God could do with money, She or He would have sold immortality to the rich a long time ago.

People are like stars in the night sky, all are not equal, but still, everyone shines.

The problem is that rich are getting richer by not giving and poor and getting poorer by not receiving.

Calling the earth activists, lightworkers, spiritual warriors. Stay awake. Take action. Spread awareness.

The moment a woman was born determined so much of who she was allowed to become.

Actions that exemplify the limitations of a singular devotion to the profit motive, also draw a troublesome distinction between what is legal and what is moral.

Modern invention has been a great leveler. A machine may operate far more quickly than a political or economic measure to abolish privilege and wipe out the distinctions of class or finance.

It’s ridiculous – a girl steps out, goes dancing, gets her hair cut, decides to spend the summer in Italy and it’s a scandal. A chap does it and no one bats an eyelid.

Charity is one of those remarkable words that helps to identify the fault lines of a culture.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.

The quest to remove all inequality is the deadening hand of socialism and results in social stagnation.

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickednessThan all the mark of Adam may redress.

If our goal is to slow migration, then the best way to do so is to work for a more equitable global system. But slowing migration is an odd goal, if the real problem is global inequality.

[T]he full and complete development of a country, the welfare of the world and the cause of peace require the maximum participation of women on equal terms with men in all fi

Politics is a game played by the rich with the lives of the poor.

It's well proven that if you have equality in society, society flourishes, and if you have inequality, it doesn't. So it's good for everybody.

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls — even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls — without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison

Racism and inequality are likened to a fungus which grows in dark places and is all the more poisonous because one cannot see it.

How beautiful it is to live in a world with no walls.

Indentured servitude is banned, but what about students seeking to sell shares of their future earnings in exchange for money up front to pay for their college tuitions?

We were like captive animals that had lost the will to fight. We even went so far as to defend the very constraints that they hadimposed upon us.

Demands for equality need to be as complicated as the inequalities they seek to address.

Global inequality means that while the wealthy have too few needs, the needy have too little wealth. Capitalism is stymied, courting long-term disaster.

America’s education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.

This is why i hate social media. It gives a voice to people who dont (sic) deserve one.

All told, over the period 1932-1980, nearly half a century, the top federal income tax rate in the United States averaged 81 percent.

The fact that Man is Nature’s perverse instantiation can only lead to the appalling conclusion that Man, too, is some kind of an artificial intelligence