“Aristotle's axiom: The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.” — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
I'm 40 years old. What I have seen my whole life is widening income inequality. — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Inequality of outcome can only be accepted when there is an equality of opportunity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every dollar that the boss did not work for, one of us worked for a dollar and didn't get it. — William C. Dudley Copy Share Image
Sex -- the great inequality, the great miscalculator, the great Irritator. — Enid Bagnold Copy Share Image
“Why you white man have so much cargo and we New Guineans have so little? (asked Yali)” — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Inequality is pervasive but invisible. It's hard to see. You need a sort of tool to make it visible. — Hito Steyerl Copy Share Image
Inequality is an enormously complicated thing that is both good and bad. — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
If you're just the person with power, exercising that power fearfully and angrily, you're going to be an operative of injustice and… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
College was a wonderful time to really explore my interests. I ended up writing my senior thesis about gender inequality in the… — Lauren Bush Copy Share Image
We need to see the FLSA and the minimum wage as part of a larger struggle to cut poverty and to address… — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
I've been talking about things like reversing the rise of inequality and strengthening social mobility,since before it was cool. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A tight-money policy reinforces inequality in two ways. Its high interest rates disproportionately reward the rich, and the resulting unemployment disproportionately punishes… — Linda McQuaig Copy Share Image
“We were like captive animals that had lost the will to fight. We even went so far as to defend the very… — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
No sustainable development, environmental harmony or lasting security will happen if we are unable to eradicate hunger and extreme inequality — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Copy Share Image
I worry about growing income inequality. But I worry even more that the discussion is too narrowly focused. I worry that our… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
The best solution to income inequality is providing a high-quality education for everybody. In our highly technological, globalized economy, people without education… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
“Dr. Noah Smith, economics columnist for Bloomberg View, tells us, “The real danger of the ‘rise of the robots’ is not that… — Kelly Weinersmith Copy Share Image
To allow injustice and inequality invites a Ferguson to your community. We must stand together, black, white, brown, red, and yellow and… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Nobody thinks quotas are a great win for women - the win would be removing the discrimination and inequality that creates under-representation… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
While many Americans agree that 'the system is rigged' economically, few are aware of the ways in which racial inequality has been… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
I don't want our white working class sisters and brothers to feel as though their pain is not important because it is.… — Nina Turner Copy Share Image
"Free markets" is a very general term. There are all sorts of problems that will emerge. Free markets work best when the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“I don't want them to think that we dress like savages,' she replied, with a scorn that Pocahontas might have resented; and… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal.… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
“It was a fact generally acknowledged by all but the most contumacious spirits at the beginning of the seventeenth century that woman… — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
“The great hatred of capitalism in the hearts of the oppressed, ancient and modern, I think, stems not merely from the ensuing… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
“How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me. I mean, there are very few people… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Stalin formulated the economic aims of socialism as: “The securing of the maximum satisfaction of the constantly rising material and cultural requirements… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
“Freedom is essentially a condition of inequality, not equality. It recognizes as a fact of nature the structural differences inherent in man… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
Probably the most extreme form of inequality is between people who are alive and people who are dead. — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Wealth is used to entrench inequality, not to trickle down and solve it. — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
If we save the planet and have a society of inequality, we wouldn't have saved much. — James H. Cone Copy Share Image
While capitalist countries have more inequality - they also have more wealth overall. — Dan Bongino Copy Share Image