Inequality in the developed world fell for most of the 20th century; we can make it fall for most of the 21st… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“HANG THE LAW AND FUCK THE RULES! Where is your love for others? Where is your compassion? All these warriors want is… — J.B. Lion Copy Share Image
The concern that I have is that, as wealth continues to concentrate in the hands of a few, economic inequality grows, and… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
Like an odorless gas, [inequality] pervades every corner of the United States and saps the strength of the country's democracy. But it… — George Packer Copy Share Image
“Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Inequality hardens society into a class system. Inequality divides us from one another... Inequality undermines democracy. — George Packer Copy Share Image
It's much more acceptable for men to work and father kids. There's an inherent inequality, because we want to do it all,… — Julia Louis-Dreyfus Copy Share Image
“I would have hoped you would have learned by now. No matter, a man who refuses to face his destiny offers himself… — J.B. Lion Copy Share Image
I think of the difficulties which, in various countries, today afflicts the world of work and business; I think of how many,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Consistently rated the most peaceable of all countries in the world by the Global Peace Index, Iceland has reduced its military expenditure… — Scilla Elworthy Copy Share Image
It is true that globalization has fueled greater income inequality. But much of this increase should be welcomed, not condemned. There is… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
ulturally, we are definitely seeing people being to ask hard questions. There's been a major shift over the last year. The NSA… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
Occupying the bottom end of the inequality ladder, and becoming a 'collateral victim' of a human action or a natural disaster, interact… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
It's really difficult for mainstream - let's say, cable outlets - to talk about things like income inequality, wealth inequality when the… — Ana Kasparian Copy Share Image
When I was poor and I complained about inequality they said I was bitter. Now I'm rich and I complain about inequality… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Rejecting the notion that democracy and markets are the same, young people are calling for an end to the poverty, grotesque levels… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Here's the trick, just as Marxists use the disparity, economic disparity among people to lure them into believing and supporting socialism to… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
When you hear men talking," said Cornelia, "all they ever do is speak ill of women. ... And I don't quite know… — Moderata Fonte Copy Share Image
“If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
No one can remain insensitive to the inequalities that persist in the world ... the Brazilian people, particularly the humblest among you,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Great and good men and women stirred sugar into their coffee knowing that it had been picked by slaves. Kind, good ancestors… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Thus it is thought that justice is equality; and so it is, but not for all persons, only for those that are… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“a basic income is arguably more justified by the need for economic security than by a desire to eradicate poverty. Martin Luther… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
Domestic and supranational regulatory capture leads to two things: on the one hand, to an inequality spiral where the rich get richer… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
“The golf links lie so near the mill That almost every day The laboring children can look out And see the men… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs did not start out wealthy, and actually added to income inequality,… — Foster Friess Copy Share Image
Inequality is going to be a big issue, but competence is going to be the biggest issue. [People] want to see somebody… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The hollowing out of the middle class is a problem common to all Western industrialized economies. Maybe we should work together to… — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
Prior to 1940, the affluent and the middle class began to converge, but after 1979, the economic gap between the middle class… — William Julius Wilson Copy Share Image
We must not let the response to the coronavirus crisis make the climate and inequality crises even worse. — Caroline Lucas Copy Share Image
There's no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear. — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
Turning back the inequality revolution may be difficult. But that would certainly help more families - at almost all income levels -… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
Our modern democratic ideal is based on the hope that inequalities will be based on merit more than inheritance or luck. — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
When humans invented material inequality, they came up with a way of subjugating the low-ranking like nothing ever seen before in the… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“People were lost and people were scared and their lynch ropes couldn't reach bankers or stockbrokers, so they looked for targets closer… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
Economic inequality is a corrosive force that undermines economic growth, puts a brake on the fight against poverty, and sparks social unrest. — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
Some people think that gender equality is the biggest issue on the table, and to me, that's a privilege to even think… — Wunmi Mosaku Copy Share Image
Yeah, maybe that's the way to solve the gender inequality that's naturally in relationships: to have a lot more power in the… — Celine Song Copy Share Image
A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image