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
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
There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Unions have long championed measures to reduce social and economic inequality, and efforts to weaken the labor movement at both the state… — Mike Quigley Copy Share Image
There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
When humans invented material inequality, they came up with a way of subjugating the low-ranking like nothing ever seen before in the… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
The national conversation around white entitlement, around institutionalized racism, the Black Lives Matter movement, I think, came about in large part because… — Cathy O'Neil Copy Share Image
The rationale that etiquette should be eschewed because it fosters inequality does not ring true in a society that openly admits to… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
When I find too many puzzles about the way explanations are given about why there is inequality - why people who work… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Many of the technologies that are now racing ahead most rapidly, replacing human workers in factories and offices with machines, making stockholders… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Real income inequality is what we used to call striving and working hard to get ahead. Striving, educating ourselves, getting up and… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“As to any sense of inequality, or youthfulness, or other difficulty in our way, little Em'ly and I had no such trouble,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There are some people who say that theyre concerned only with poverty but not inequality. But I dont think that is a… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
I think, unfortunately, we've always lived in a world of massive inequality: inequality between the haves and the have-nots, inequality between men… — O. T. Fagbenle Copy Share Image
“a basic income is arguably more justified by the need for economic security than by a desire to eradicate poverty. Martin Luther… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
Domestic and supranational regulatory capture leads to two things: on the one hand, to an inequality spiral where the rich get richer… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
The truth is that political consciousness in this country is pretty low... To the degree that we can help educate and organize… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
If we were going to address what involves the biggest number of women, reproductive freedom is a fundamental human right - like… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Utopianism also finds a receptive audience among the society's disenchanted, disaffected, dissatisfied, and maladjusted who are unwilling or unable to assume responsibility… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
We're living through an era of higher income inequality than the country has experienced since before the Great Depression. Meanwhile, most people… — Sasha Abramsky Copy Share Image
The Fed cannot reduce inequality on its own; far from it. This requires a concerted effort by the government, broadly speaking, to… — Gerald Epstein Copy Share Image
This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ… — Urbain Le Verrier Copy Share Image
Economic inequality is a corrosive force that undermines economic growth, puts a brake on the fight against poverty, and sparks social unrest. — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
“People were lost and people were scared and their lynch ropes couldn't reach bankers or stockbrokers, so they looked for targets closer… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
Yeah, maybe that's the way to solve the gender inequality that's naturally in relationships: to have a lot more power in the… — Celine Song Copy Share Image
Some people think that gender equality is the biggest issue on the table, and to me, that's a privilege to even think… — Wunmi Mosaku Copy Share Image
At my public school I had hated every other face for fear the owner was a lord, at university, I was to… — Henry Green Copy Share Image
A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
“The vast majority of Americans, at all coordinates of the economic spectrum, consider themselves middle class; this is a deeply ingrained, distinctly… — Ellen Cushing Copy Share Image
When fewer workers have unions, the standard of living falls for everyone and the gap between the rich and poor grows. — John Sweeney Copy Share Image
The literature associating inequality with social instability and poor health outcomes is pretty convincing. — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
Contrary to the received wisdom, global markets are not unregulated. They are regulated to produce inequality. — Kevin Watkins Copy Share Image
“the decline of the aristocracy and the rise of the middle classes, that occurred in France during the Third Republic and the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It's much more acceptable for men to work and father kids. There's an inherent inequality, because we want to do it all,… — Julia Louis-Dreyfus Copy Share Image
“I would have hoped you would have learned by now. No matter, a man who refuses to face his destiny offers himself… — J.B. Lion Copy Share Image
“The golf links lie so near the mill That almost every day The laboring children can look out And see the men… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Inequality is going to be a big issue, but competence is going to be the biggest issue. [People] want to see somebody… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs did not start out wealthy, and actually added to income inequality,… — Foster Friess Copy Share Image