Corners Quote by George Packer

Inequality also distorts our democracy. It gives an outsized voice to the few who can afford high-priced lobbyists and unlimited campaign contributions, and runs…

— Barack Obama

Inequality hardens society into a class system. Inequality divides us from one another... Inequality undermines democracy.

— George Packer

It [concentration of wealth and power] has been a menace to . . . American democracy.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

On inequality, I contend that far too much of the nation's wealth and income is gravitating to too few. This undermines the democracy we…

— James Stone

Inequality is pervasive but invisible. It's hard to see. You need a sort of tool to make it visible.

— Hito Steyerl

Inequality saps the economy by draining the buying power of Americans whose incomes have stagnated, forcing them to rely on debt to fund education,…

— George Packer

Unequal Democracy is the sort of book to which every political scientist should aspire--it is methodologically rigorous, conceptually serious, and above all, it addresses…

— Robert D. Putnam

Remember, until the 1970s, the spread of democracy has always been accompanied by the decline of inequality. The more democratic our societies have been,…

— Ivan Krastev

I would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government.

— Milton Friedman

Inequality causes problems by creating fissures in societies, leaving those at the bottom feeling marginalized or disenfranchised.

— Nicholas Kristof

“Today the United States is by far the most unequal rich democracy in the world.”

— David Cay Johnston

“inequality is instead an emergent property of the interactions between agents and the environment. Since this effect comes about from aggregation of all the…

— Rich Jolly