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Inequality Quotes by Pope Francis
- Today in many places we hear a call for greater security. But until exclusion and inequality in society and between peoples is reversed, it will…
- No one can remain insensitive to the inequalities that persist in the world ... the Brazilian people, particularly the humblest among you, can offer the…
- Just as the commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' sets a clear limit in order to safeguard the value of human life, today we also have…
- As long as the problems of the poor are not radically resolved by rejecting the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation and by attacking…
- I recognize that globalization has helped many people rise out of poverty, but it has also damned many others to starve to death. It is…
- When money, instead of man, is at the center of the system, when money becomes an idol, men and women are reduced to simple instruments…
- Inequality is the root of social evil.
- I think of the difficulties which, in various countries, today afflicts the world of work and business; I think of how many, and not just…
- People have to struggle to live and, frequently, to live in an undignified way. One cause of this situation, in my opinion, is in the…
- The worldwide financial and economic crisis seems to highlight their distortions and above all the gravely deficient human perspective, which reduces man to one of…
- The Pope appeals for disinterested solidarity and for a return to person-centred ethics in the world of finance and economics.
- The Church encourages those in power to be truly at the service of the common good of their peoples. She urges financial leaders to take…
- We must recover the whole sense of gift, of gratuitousness, of solidarity. Rampant capitalism has taught the logic of profit at all costs, of giving…
- ...these things become the norm: that some homeless people die of cold on the streets is not news. In contrast, a ten point drop on…
- This happens today: if the investments in the banks fall slightly... a tragedy... what can be done? But if people die of hunger, if they…
- Let us remember well, however, that whenever food is thrown out it is as if it were stolen from the table of the poor, from…
- Essential to the attainment of these national goals is the moral imperative of ensuring social justice and respect for human dignity. The great biblical tradition…
- The great biblical tradition enjoins on all peoples the duty to hear the voice of the poor. It bids us break the bonds of injustice…
- The Church in the Philippines is called to acknowledge and combat the causes of the deeply rooted inequality and injustice which mar the face of…
- Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities.
More Inequality Quotes
- 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… — 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… — Jane Addams
- By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to… — 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,… — 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