In theory we are all equal before the law. In practice, there are overwhelming privileges that come with winning the birth lottery. — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
Inequality has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education,… — Helene D. Gayle Copy Share Image
It is probably true that the economic benefits of being in the EU are a net positive to the UK, but a… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Education is not the only answer and it's certainly not the immediate solution. At best, it's a necessary, but not sufficient response… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor… — Susan George Copy Share Image
“Why we are hanging around with inequality concept every day, it is like comparing water with the bread.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Inequality has risen to the point that it seems to me worthwhile for the U.S. to seriously consider taking the risk of… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
When money, instead of man, is at the center of the system, when money becomes an idol, men and women are reduced… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Those who want to "spread the wealth" almost invariably seek to concentrate the power. It happens too often, and in too many… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I think Republicans need to take income inequality more seriously. Not because I favor equality of outcomes. I do not. I think… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
The important issue is not how much inequality there is but how much opportunity there is for individuals to get out of… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Whether that's racism, whether it's bigotry, whether it's gender inequality - whatever it is, it's all stemming from "me against you." And,… — Draymond Green Copy Share Image
Fragility, violence, and conflict are complex. Fragility is influenced by a wide set of factors, many of which are deeply entrenched, such… — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
The disorganisers are those who want to level everything: property, comforts, the price of commodities, the various services rendered to the State...… — Jacques Pierre Brissot Copy Share Image
Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a… — Bobby Scott Copy Share Image
Schools, the institutions traditionally called upon to correct social inequality, are unsuited to the task; without economic opportunity to follow educational opportunity,… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
This splendid book discusses how, in the last two hundred fifty years, large numbers of people have achieved levels of well-being that… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
In our current society, it is considered a weakness to be female and a treason to protest this. Highlighting inequality results in… — Clementine Ford Copy Share Image
“But it was also clear that an all-round increase in wealth threatened the destruction — indeed, in some sense was the destruction… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The bottom quarter of the human population has only three-quarters of one percent of global household income, about one thirty-second of the… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Thus no member of the commonwealth can have a hereditary privilege as against his fellow-subjects; and no-one can hand down to his… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Whatever variant of freedom is espoused, a basic income would enhance it. However, in the liberal tradition a basic income would be… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
The heart of the liberal philosophy is a belief in the dignity of the individual, in his freedom to make the most… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The share of wealth held by the minority is much greater than the share held by the majority. We have to draw… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
“When inequality alarmists like Krugman hold up the post-war era as a model, they are not doing so in the name of… — Don Watkins Copy Share Image
The daily deluge of tales of lechery and trauma holds a hidden but crucial truism: sexual harassment routinely feeds on income inequality.… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
“Meritocracy is a social arrangement like any other: it is a loose set of rules that can be adapted in order to… — Shamus Rahman Khan Copy Share Image
I think the gap between rich and poor is an extremely dangerous phenomenon and needs the immediate attention of the state. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
We need to tackle extreme inequality because it is morally indefensible and socially corrosive - undermining our health, affecting our well-being, and… — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
“US inequality in 2010 is quantitatively as extreme as in old Europe in the first decade of the twentieth century, but the… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
If freedom led to wider inequality, I would prefer that to a world in which I got artificial equality at the expense… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I hate a style, as I do a garden, that is wholly flat and regular; that slides along like an eel, and… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Nature still obstinately refuses to co-operate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people. — Beatrice Webb Copy Share Image
“A state born of protest against inequality had created one of the most intricate and rigid systems of privilege that the world… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Instead, we have found ourselves gasping for air in a sea of corruption, dysfunction, environmental degradation, waste, disenchantment and inequality—and the harder… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax;… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
“The mess we are living in is a deliberate one. If it was created by people, it can be dismantled by people,… — Reni Eddo-Lodge Copy Share Image
“...we should in the interests of accuracy refer not to 'democratic free market capitalism' but to 'plutocratic impunity capitalism'.” — Robert Wade Copy Share Image
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