Inequality Quotes

374 Inequality quotes by 275 unique authors

I don't see much future for the Americans ... it's a decayed country. And they have their racial problem, and the problem of social inequalities… — Adolf Hitler
Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence… — Adam Smith
The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry her. ... The… — Dorothy L. Sayers
[M]en, though they know full well how much women are worth and how great the benefits we bring them, nonetheless seek to destroy us out… — Moderata Fonte
When you hear men talking," said Cornelia, "all they ever do is speak ill of women. ... And I don't quite know how they managed… — Moderata Fonte
To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in little ways all day long. So… — Naomi Wolf
The top 10 per cent of the US population appropriated 91 per cent of income growth between 1989 and 2006, while the top 1 per… — Ha-Joon Chang
Forty-two years after Dr. King was murdered, we are still a nation of inequality. People of color, women, gays, lesbians, and others are still treated… — Gary L. Francione
Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality. — Adam Smith
The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no… — Albert Camus
[W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insisting with sobs and howls on the satisfaction of… — Dorothy L. Sayers
The more women help one another, the more we help ourselves. Acting like a coalition truly does produce results. Any coalition of support must also… — Sheryl Sandberg
True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius. — Felix Schelling
An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects. — Martin Luther
Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom. — Francis Picabia
How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak? — Isabel Allende
Excessive economic, social and cultural inequalities among peoples arouse tensions and conflicts, and are a danger to peace. — Pope Paul VI
There is an elementary aspiration which undergirds the humane impulse in our history and our culture and binds us together as political activists. This is… — Paul Wellstone
It has been convincingly demonstrated that countries where there are high rates of poverty, or high rates of economic inequality, are the countries with the… — Richard Dawkins
Remember, until the 1970s, the spread of democracy has always been accompanied by the decline of inequality. The more democratic our societies have been, the… — Ivan Krastev
I maintain that the period during the first half of the 1990s, the period in which rising inequality reached its peak, was a period in… — William Julius Wilson
The Savior has suffered not just for our iniquities but also for the inequality, the unfairness, the pain, the anguish, and the emotional distresses that… — David A. Bednar
There is a huge number of people outside our borders who would love to come here. In fact, many of them come here, get well… — Alan Greenspan
Inequality is on the rise. — William Finnegan

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