The concept of UBI (universal basic income) is a good concept and when Arvind Subramanian had started it, I told him that… — Arun Jaitley Copy Share Image
“We are reverting to the civilization of luggage, and historians of the future will note how the middle classes accreted possessions without… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
If we can create a climate among people that says that any serious candidate for president, Senate, governor, [the] House is going… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“Have you ever played Monopoly? It's a board game designed to teach kids capitalism. And what happens in the end? The winner… — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
The Church in the Philippines is called to acknowledge and combat the causes of the deeply rooted inequality and injustice which mar… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The failure of state education in so many white working class areas is utterly unacceptable. Not to talk about it or to… — Wes Streeting Copy Share Image
I always felt the 'X-Men,' in a subtle way, often touched upon the subject of racism and inequality, and I believe that… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
“inequality is instead an emergent property of the interactions between agents and the environment. Since this effect comes about from aggregation of… — Rich Jolly Copy Share Image
“The people come to understand that wealth is not the fruit of labour but the result of organised, protected robbery. Rich people… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
The reason our country looks the way it does is through social engineering that distinctly benefits suburban communities, exurban communities, and often… — Richard Benjamin Copy Share Image
A universal basic income means not only that millions of people would receive unconditional cash payments, but also that millions of people… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
Well, you can do whatever you want, but just don’t call it inequality. Put the word poverty there. Because we have many… — Branko Milanovic Copy Share Image
America has long raised political and cultural cognitive dissonance to an art form. We are capable of living with enormous inequality and… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Britain is a textbook case of how growing inequality leads to economic crisis. The years before the crash were marked by a… — Frances O'Grady Copy Share Image
“Human rights start with the freedom of equal income and educational opportunity. The deep-rooted inequalities like gender, colour, race and religion discriminations… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
As income inequality increases, the social and political sway of those at the very, very top grows, too. They are nearly all… — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
Inequality also distorts our democracy. It gives an outsized voice to the few who can afford high-priced lobbyists and unlimited campaign contributions,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“There is no justice, and I want you to hear this clearly, when the top one-tenth of 1 percent—not 1 percent, the… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
In socialist society certain inequalities in property still exist. But in socialist society there is no longer unemployment, no exploitation, no oppression… — J. Stalin Copy Share Image
Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding; and those who are conscious of their inferiority have the modesty not to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Race is the idea that a human being is more superior than another human being, race in society grants illusional rights to… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
There's still a massive inequality between the genders. If you look at the trajectory of a male actor's career, there's no hesitation… — Juliet Stevenson Copy Share Image
As we contemplate a world which is still choosing to deploy technological innovation in a way that deepens inequality and divisions within… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
I certainly think so, and I argue so, and I give talks on that. Are there risks by putting people together? Absolutely.… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
“You see the mistakes of one system—the surveillance—and the mistakes of the other—the inequality—but there’s nothing you could have done in the… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
Study after study has shown that the availability of stable employment, reduced income inequality and post-imprisonment neighbourhood affluence are three of the… — Ash Sarkar Copy Share Image
Neoliberal violence produced in part through a massive shift in wealth to the upper 1%, growing inequality, the reign of the financial… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The doctrine of equality! ... But there is no more venomous poison in existence: for it appears to be preached by justice… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Since I became First Minister, I have made clear my priority to alleviate poverty and tackle inequality in Scotland. Ensuring that everyone… — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
the system which admits the unworthy to the vote provided they are men, and shuts out the worthy provided they are women,… — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
“Inequality and poverty, unhealth and no wealth are hand in hand. And if we are all born equal that should be true… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
Every country has rich people. But only a few places have achieved a vibrant and stable middle class. And in the history… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
There has been inequality for so long, and now that someone like Trump is in charge, we're face to face with how… — Ruth Wilson Copy Share Image
There is greater income inequality in the United States than in any other industrialized country. Yes, the debt is a problem that… — Jan Schakowsky Copy Share Image
I don't think that we should have billionaires because, frankly, it is so much money in a moment of such inequality, and… — Zohran Mamdani Copy Share Image
“The economic consequences of these policies have been the same just about everywhere, and exactly what one would expect: a massive increase… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Bearing in mind most companies rely on the middle classes in developed countries to sell goods and services throughout the value chain,… — Richard Quest Copy Share Image
If the economists are arguing as to whether we need to cut or stimulate, because they're completely opposite policies, and they can't… — Michael Marmot Copy Share Image