Inequality Quotes

374 quotes by 281 authors

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
I believe that if you want to fight inequality you have to do it starting at infancy. — Michelle Bachelet
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. — Walter Bagehot
The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever. — Gerry Adams
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life. — Jane Addams
By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films… — Theodore Bikel
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Prolonged endurance tames the bold. — Lord Byron
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
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it;… — Thomas Carlyle
Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent… — Eric Alterman
American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn't be. — Eric Alterman
Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab… — Eric Alterman
What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination… — B R Ambedkar
Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing… — Alan Greenspan
All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law. — Thomas Hobbes
The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to grow together, in… — Theodore Hesburgh
It clearly follows that to make men moral it is necessary to make their social environment moral. And that can be done in only one… — Mikhail Bakunin

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