Being equal Quote by Ernst Engel

Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who were richer.

— Margaret Drabble

The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable

— Seneca the Younger

If instead of looking at income, you look at levels of consumption, if anything that's become more equal. The fraction of families that have…

— Milton Friedman

“Malnutrition and famines are common in some regions, but they result mainly from unequal distribution rather than adequate production, of food.”

— Jane B. Reece

The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of…

— Josiah Strong

The only inequalities that matter begin in the mind. It is not income levels but differences in mental equipment that keep people apart, breed…

— Jacquetta Hawkes

People differ in capacity, skill, health, strength; and unequal fortune is a necessary result of unequal condition. Such inequality is far from being disadvantageous…

— Pope Leo XIII

In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.

— Ferdinand Mount

“According, therefore, as this produce, or what is purchased with it, bears a greater or smaller proportion to the number of those who are…

— Adam Smith

Poverty is less a matter of income than of prospects. While the incomes of the poor have steadily risen through Great Society largesse, their…

— George Gilder

The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

— Voltaire

A man is rich whose income is larger than his expenses, and he is poor if his expenses are greater than his income.

— Jean de la Bruyere