Inequality Quotes

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.

The inequality between the world's individuals is staggering.

The weak economy, widening income inequality, gridlock in Congress and a presidential election: Those were perhaps the dominant economic and political themes of 2012.

I think that the main issue with inequality is not the gap between the rich and the poor. It is the gap between the earnings of top business leaders and the salaries of academics and journalists.

I've been talking about things like reversing the rise of inequality and strengthening social mobility,since before it was cool.

The decision is I'm going to do everything I can to fight for the working class of this country, the low-income people against income and wealth inequality, do everything we can about climate change.

In a world of massive wealth and income inequality, Europe must support Greece’s efforts to build an economy which creates more jobs and income, not more unemployment and suffering.

The higher the coefficient of inequality (Gini coefficient) in a society, the worse things tend to be for those at the bottom.

I will always have enough money to last the rest of my life...as long as I don't buy anything.

Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus.

The devastation of neoliberalism is so multi-fold, whether it's violence against women or desperate economic inequality or the destruction of the planet.

The concern that I have is that, as wealth continues to concentrate in the hands of a few, economic inequality grows, and power also becomes more unequal.

By defining the problem as 'hunger', the emergency food system is helping to direct our attention away from the more fundamental problem of poverty, and the even more basic problem of inequality.

The inequality of income and fortunes is essential in capitalism.

Inequality is a fact. Equality is a value.

Inequality is not just an issue between individuals, between classes, between regions. It's between urban and rural.

Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the twentieth century as increasingly illegitimate.

It has been convincingly demonstrated that countries where there are high rates of poverty, or high rates of economic inequality, are the countries with the highest rates of religious beliefs.

There are four headwinds that are just hitting the American economy in the face: They're demographics, education, debt and inequality. They're powerful enough to cut growth in half.

If the Internet is worth its salt, it has to help arrest the forces that promote inequality, monopoly, hypercommercialism, corruption, depoliticization and stagnation.

The engine of growth is also the engine of inequality.

Obviously, I have certain policy positions that I push and advocate for that would benefit people dealing in a system that breeds inequality and makes life more difficult for people.

The scale of global inequality is quite simply staggering.

Giving a minimum wage reduces inequality significantly.

How can you trust people who are poor and own no property? ... Inequality of property will exist as long as liberty exists.

Motherhood is a greater predictor of wage inequality than gender is. It's enormous.

We live in a country where a small number of people have incredible wealth and power. America has more income and wealth inequality than any other major country.

Hillary Clinton, income inequality, it's richest damn woman next to the Kennedy family, and you're trying to tell me she cares about income inequality?

In the US, the problem is primary and secondary education. We've had such an increase in inequality because a quarter of American kids don't finish high school!

The American woman's inequality with men is proved by her defiant attitude.

The historical weight of gender inequality has tended to concentrate women in lower-paid jobs with fewer benefits and at the same time made them primarily responsible for care giving.

Every dollar that the boss did not work for, one of us worked for a dollar and didn't get it.

Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone.

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

Charity erodes the cultural prerequisites for a vigorous democracy.

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 equality among all members of the League, which is provided in the statutes giving each state only one vote, cannot of course abolish the actual material inequality of the powers concerned.

I am going to attack income inequality and I think I have a pretty good plan to do so. I don't just tell you what I'm against. I tell you what I'm for and how I would do it.

The United States has worse income inequality than Nigeria.

They talk about income inequality. I’m for income inequality.

Rising inequality can create a more highly leveraged economy, and it can then make the economy vulnerable to a crash like 2008.

We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering.

Women can't wait for equal pay. And I won't stop fighting to address this inequality.

I think the media and the candidates have got to talk about why the middle class is in decline and why we have massive levels of income and wealth inequality.

We started out covering income inequality in the magazine [Mother Jones], but that ongoing body of work positioned - and sourced - us well to put both Occupy and the 47 percent in context.

Martin Luther King was a radical democrat, by which I mean someone who is a foe of wealth inequality.

It is probably true that the economic benefits of being in the EU are a net positive to the UK, but a large number of people do not share in these benefits and the result is increasing inequality.

It's a collective truth that slavery is wrong, that child labor is wrong, that gross inequality is wrong. God didn't send it.

You have to be invited to the party. You have to be invited to work, which is weird. That can be frustrating. But gender inequality is pretty similar through almost every industry, unfortunately.

Yesterday was not only daylight saving time, but also International Women's Day. What better way to address the issue of inequality for women than giving them a day that's missing an hour.