Too much dependence on the market has led to growing inequality and poverty, and too much stress on nature has exacerbated the… — Fumio Kishida Copy Share Image
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
We must acknowledge that issues like systemic racism, economic inequality, and the achievement gap are the result of manmade policies. — Ayanna Pressley Copy Share Image
The causes which destroyed the ancient republics were numerous; but in Rome, one principal cause was the vast inequality of fortunes. — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
“Inequality in the modern world largely results from the uneven dissemination and adoption of technologies,” — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
Inequality hardens society into a class system. Inequality divides us from one another... Inequality undermines democracy. — 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
“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
I think the stress on income inequality is something that every American should take seriously, we have got to figure out how… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The rule of law does not do away with the unequal distribution of wealth and power, but reinforces that inequality with the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
We want to end gender inequality, and to do this, we need everyone involved...We want to try to galvanize as many men… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
“There is no economic failure so terrible in its import as that of a country possessing a surplus of every necessity of… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
“If people lived to be a thousand years old, there’d be extreme inequality, based not on class like now, but on genetics.… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Trickle down economics is a fraud. Giving tax breaks to the rich and large corporations does not create jobs. It simply makes… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The democratic ideal has always been related to a moderate level of inequality. I think one big reason why electoral democracy flourished… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
For 40 years, the American middle class has been disappearing. Millions of people are working longer hours for lower wages despite a… — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
“Equality, as understood by the American Founders, is the natural right of every individual to live freely under self-government, to acquire and… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
Who's counting? It was, of course, the minority who were counting. It always is. Most of the women I know today would… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
I think that we're at an alarming moment in American political development and maybe in world political development, because the United States… — Frances Fox Piven Copy Share Image
“Now, it is frequently asserted that, with women, the job does not come first. What (people cry) are women doing with this… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
As long as the problems of the poor are not radically resolved by rejecting the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“There is good reason for pervasive middle-class angst. Financial insecurity has been written into the DNA of the New Economy. Not only… — Hedrick Smith Copy Share Image
“An unbroken horse erects his mane, paws the ground and starts back impetuously at the sight of the bridle; while one which… — Rousseau Jean-Jacques Copy Share Image
There, right in the midst of our lives, is that which satisfies the craving for inequality, and acts as a permanent reminder… — CS Lewis 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
Inequality within the deaf and hard of hearing community is something I feel really passionate about and always will do. — Rachel Shenton Copy Share Image
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
The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“there’s no such thing as middle-class. The middle class does not exist. If you believe you are part of the middle class,… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Woman cannot be free until man's mind is liberated from the megalomania! His self-exaltation is the mother of the gender inequalities. Till… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
In America, the middle class, the working class, have accepted for too long now, that they should accept less. — Jane O'Meara Sanders Copy Share Image
The Achilles' heel of the left has been its dependence on menace for power. Think of all the things it can ask… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
The middle class today would be poor by the standards of the 1950s. Today, with two people working, they would still live… — Peter Schiff 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
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