American history Quote by Gertrude Himmelfarb

Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the twentieth century…

— Michael Mandelbaum

“US inequality in 2010 is quantitatively as extreme as in old Europe in the first decade of the twentieth century, but the structure of…

— Thomas Piketty

Since the middle of the twentieth century, our understanding of the American past has been revolutionized, in no small part because of our altered…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

“This is also why Anglo-American achievements cannot be seen in isolation from their ambiguous consequences and victims elsewhere; why many Anglo-American assumptions, derived from…

— Pankaj Mishra

“The most recent estimate is that a mere 400 individuals in the United States now own more wealth than the bottom 180 million Americans…

— Gar Alperovitz

By some estimates, income and wealth inequality are near their highest levels in the past hundred years, much higher than the average during that…

— Janet Yellen

I don't worry whether the period is contemporary or three hundred years ago. Human beings are all alike.

— Genevieve Bujold

“In Europe today, the capital/income ratio has already risen to around five to six years of national income, scarcely less than the level observed…

— Thomas Piketty

For America, the period of 1800 to 1920 was an unparalleled time of broad expansion and growth driven by extraordinary factors unlike almost any…

— Philip Anschutz

The inequality between the world's individuals is staggering.

— Zygmunt Bauman

There is one fault that I must find With the twentieth century. And I'll put it in a couple of words; Too adventury. What…

— Ogden Nash

The human condition for the vast majority of people on this planet for the entire time of what humanity has been here has been…

— Rush Limbaugh