Inequality Quotes · Page 32

Inequalities of wealth, unjustly established, have assuredly injured the nation in which they exist during their establishment; and, unjustly directed, they injure…

— John Ruskin

we should reject the attempt to divert the national conversation away from soaring inequality toward the alleged moral failings of those Americans…

— Paul Krugman

There are dangers that globalization increases inequality. There are dangers that because capital is mobile and workers are not, if we are…

— Barack Obama

President Obama believes that income inequality is one of the most pressing matters facing the nation. If we are going to be…

— Anonymous

First of all, this whole idea of this one percent versus the 99 percent, it's a false statistic. There's nobody that is…

— Jon Lovitz

“You know how the story ends. He escaped and went on to become the greatest chief Suntown ever had. He never built…

— Nnedi Okorafor

It's very hard to persuade a young person who has seen the Great Recession, who has seen all the problems with inequality,…

— Joseph Stiglitz

Today we hear that the gains from economic growth accrue to the highest-income earners while the standard of living of the poor…

— Kevin Hassett

Numerous studies have shown income inequality growing since the late 1970s. Real earnings have fallen for many families, with globalization, the decline…

— Annie Lowrey

“Nowhere in the world do you find this evenness that people use as a norm. And I find it fascinating that they…

— Thomas Sowell

But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

We must fight inequality and poverty if we want to re-establish peace and security. Seven million Mexicans live in extreme poverty, which…

— Enrique Pena Nieto

I'm a part of major league rugby. We had a league meeting to decide what to do with anthem protests, and even…

— John Layfield

Universal basic income is not a solution in search of a problem - it is the obvious solution that has been in…

— Andrew Yang

People have to struggle to live and, frequently, to live in an undignified way. One cause of this situation, in my opinion,…

— Pope Francis

Overwhelming and astounding inequality,especially when it has an element of the unattainable, arouses far less envy than minimal inequality, which inevitably causes…

— Helmut Schoeck

Whatever may be the general endeavor of a community to render its members equal and alike, the personal pride of individuals will…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will…

— Naomi Klein

Having enough to eat, being able to educate your children, have reasonably stable employment, and being able to live in a society…

— Susan George

People on left have to better understand what are the benefits of inequality, and people on right have to understand better what…

— Angus Deaton

Contrary to a tenacious myth, France is not owned by California pension funds or the Bank of China, any more than the…

— Thomas Piketty

I want the government in the DRC and everywhere where gender inequality is a problem, it's not only an African problem, to…

— Margot Wallstrom

It costs a lot of money to go into cafes to breastfeed when out in public. Not everyone has the money to…

— Jill Johnston

When we talk about inequality in America, the great health centers being able to care for people who don't have means is…

— Maria Bartiromo

European officials thought that austerity was part of what they called their 'convergence policies,' of trying to bring countries together. Instead, it…

— Joseph Stiglitz

We are seeing a working-class, a middle class, which over the last three decades has seen their wages and income stagnate, while…

— Katrina vanden Heuvel

In a process that had begun in the 1980s and suddenly accelerated in the early 2000s ... [t]he peaks of great wealth…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

The most desirable mode of education, is that which is careful that all the acquisitions of the pupil shall be preceded and…

— William Godwin

The major economic policy challenges facing the nation today - pick your favorites among the usual suspects of low public and household…

— Timothy Geithner

No kid graduating in a political science class in Canada should not understand what's happened to income inequality since the 1970s, period.…

— Michael Ignatieff

Grave security concerns can arise as a result of demographic trends, chronic poverty, economic inequality, environmental degradation, pandemic diseases, organized crime, repressive…

— Ban Ki-moon

Equality is essential. Gay, Straight, Fat, Skinny, Weak, Strong, Black, White, Brown, Yellow, Muslim, Christian, Atheist, Etc. It doesn't matter. What matters…

— Jasari

When corporations refuse to practice due diligence by not establishing grievance mechanisms for remedy of abuses against the hidden 94% of their…

— Sharan Burrow

The lack of health care coverage has remained very important to me during my time in Congress and as a member of…

— Paul Gillmor

I don't know another way to try to deal with income inequality than actually having entrepreneurs and inventors creating the kind of…

— Francis X. Suarez

When I came to America, I saw the inequality right away with the food industry. And I don't really talk about it…

— Dominique Crenn

We increasingly live in societies based on the vocabulary of 'choice' and a denial of reality - a denial of massive inequality,…

— Henry Giroux

Hillary Clinton is making income inequality a central theme in her campaign. Yeah, for example, today she pointed out that her husband…

— Conan O'Brien

“In a patriarchal society, one of the most important functions of the institution of the family is to make feel like a…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The American people have to think hard about their definition of the meaning of the good life, that hedonistic, materialistic society of…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski