Inequality Quotes

Inequality promotes progress.

If we don't rebuild that connection with people we will really find even bigger gaps, because our gap on inequality is not just economic.

The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.

We want our children to live in an America that isn't burdened by debt, that isn't weakened by inequality, that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet.

Employers able to work together with workers and sharing gains and profits will lead to a much better world, getting away from income inequality.

Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.

Wealth inequality has increased.

Everywhere there is inequality, everywhere there is division, and I worry about it. I think everybody does.

Education is not the only answer and it's certainly not the immediate solution. At best, it's a necessary, but not sufficient response to widening inequality.

Prolonged endurance tames the bold.

Inequality is the cause of all local movements.

It's much more acceptable for men to work and father kids. There's an inherent inequality, because we want to do it all, and I don't know how we can do this all.

We can do better. ...We can't ignore the inequalities that persist in our justice system that undermine our most deeply held values of fairness and equality.

There is still nothing like equality for women in jobs, in family. There's just an awareness that inequality is not acceptable.

We're dealing with a crisis of inequality, of joblessness, of underemployment.

But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.

My advice to everybody would be to go out as much as possible and deal with social inequality and environmental degradation because these issues are increasingly prescient.

Inequality is going to be a big issue, but competence is going to be the biggest issue. [People] want to see somebody that's super-competent and that's me.

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

The inequality between the world's individuals is staggering.

Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it seems hid, and hide the false seems true.

Economics is sometimes associated with the study and defense of selfishness and material inequality, but it has an egalitarian and civil libertarian core that should be celebrated.

Income inequality matters more on a day-to-day basis. Wealth matters more for political influence.

Lenin, Stalin, and Mao slaughtered even more tens of millions in the name of equality than Hitler murdered in the name of inequality.

Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.

Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding.

Inequality is the inevitable consequence of liberty.

Thievery is what unregulated capitalism is all about.

The key to understanding the rise in inequality isn't technology or globalization. It's the power of the moneyed interests to shape the underlying rules of the market.

I'm 40 years old. What I have seen my whole life is widening income inequality.

You need to look at inequality as a typical condition of modern society.

Let us remember well, however, that whenever food is thrown out it is as if it were stolen from the table of the poor, from the hungry!

Decreasing economic growth and increasing inequality leads to increased uncertainty.

The elephant needs a thousand times more food than the ant but that is not an indication of inequality.

I think there's so many things happening, whether it's gender inequality or immigration, there's just so many issues happening around the world where not doing anything makes you guilty.

Nature, by its very nature, is very brutal and unequal. However, Man has somehow managed to transform the nature of its brutality and inequality.

I remember becoming aware of women's issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that women are regarded as less intelligent than men.

We have to have a very strong criticism of modes of cooperation that entrench inequality.

Government mitigates the inequality of power, and makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow-subjects.

My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice.

The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior of those who are not, so long he is the repository of power.

Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them.

One of the most important of all the causes of great inequality of income is the inheritance of a great fortune by a small minority.

Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.

The Procrustean bed is not a symbol of equality. It is no less inequality to have equality among unequals.

Getting inequality out there into the consciousness was important. All these political pundits now talking about the 2014 and 2016 elections are talking about inequality.

Development develops inequality.

The women who do the most work get the least money, and the women who have the most money do the least work.

Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.

Income inequality and wage stagnation finally took their place among the principal moral issues of our time.