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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
I've been reading about and writing about the Civil War period and it is so striking that slavery was never made right… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Most of the time in America, we're surrounded by oppressive inequality such that the wealthiest 1 percent collectively own substantially more than… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
“It's clear that equality doesn't quite cut it. Asking for a sliver of disproportionate power is too polite a request. I don't… — Reni Eddo-Lodge Copy Share Image
We must be optimistic about the future because it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. If we are creative and ambitious, intelligent machines will liberate… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
In this particular historical moment, the notion of conjuncture helps us to address theoretically how youth protests are largely related to a… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
In life you may be poor or rich, but death is the great equalizer. The greatest communism is in death. Howsoever you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Because it is such a huge crisis, because it puts us on a firm science-based deadline, it's a once-in-a-century opportunity to build… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Cancer has changed how I see adversity, because there is so much inequality in the treatment of the disease and it shouldn't… — Thelma Jones 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
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
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
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
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
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
The hollowing out of the middle class is a problem common to all Western industrialized economies. Maybe we should work together to… — Chrystia Freeland 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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 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 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
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
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