Wealth is so concentrated that a large segment of society…

Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence.

— Francoise Mallet-Joris

“For millions of people, “wealth” amounts to little more than a few weeks’ wages in a checking account or low-interest savings account, a car,…

— Thomas Piketty

“While it is easy to become paralyzed by the world's suffering and the inequalities created by corruption and greed, we actually hold immense power…

— Jen Hatmaker

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have…

— Louis D. Brandeis

“As the familiar quote usually attributed to Supreme Court justice Louis D. Brandeis goes, “We can have democracy in this country, or we can…

— Jaron Lanier

I promised to bring change to Washington. The underlying reason for the economic mess we're in has been building for years. It's a fundamental…

— Barack Obama

If in a country, most of the wealth is concentrated in the hands of the few, then this country can hardly witness harmony and…

— Wen Jiabao

In the first place, it is obvious that not only is wealth concentrated in our times but an immense power and despotic economic dictatorship…

— Pope Pius XI

“The bottom line is that wealth can be concentrated somewhere, but that doesn’t also mean that’s where it’s being created. This is just as…

— Rutger Bregman

Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers.

— Thomas Piketty

Beings who are born not only unaware of, but quite indifferent to, the aims and habits of the social group have to be rendered…

— John Dewey

I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to…

— J. G. Ballard

The thing is, we [celebrities are] all just people living our lives, doing our thing. But, I honestly tend to live in my own…

— Chris French

“While performing the great majority of the actions in their life, people are totally unaware. We tend to go through our daily activities mechanically.…

— Samuel Sagan

A monkey is unaware that atoms exist. Likewise, our brainpower may not stretch to the deepest aspects of reality. The bedrock nature of space…

— Martin Rees