Causes Quote by Hugh Dalton

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Let us be thankful that there is no court by which we can be excluded from our share in the inheritance of the great…

— James Russell Lowell

Income and inheritance taxes imply the denial of private property, and in that are different in principle from all other taxes. The government says…

— Frank Chodorov

“And after generations of redistributive progressive income and inheritance taxes, the economic elite was losing its lead. Income in America during the mid-1970s was…

— Jane Mayer

Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding.

— Samuel Johnson

But avarice and ambition in the rich, in the poor the hatred of labour and the love of present ease and enjoyment, are the…

— Adam Smith

Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the…

— Adam Smith

Sex -- the great inequality, the great miscalculator, the great Irritator.

— Enid Bagnold

“The great inequality of the modern world that emerged in the nineteenth century was caused by the uneven dissemination of industrial technologies and manufacturing…

— Daron Acemoğlu

Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.

— Adam Smith

“Making the rich poorer does not make the poor richer, but it does make the state stronger—and it does increase the power of officials…

— Keith Joseph

Some degree of inequality in income and wealth, of course, would occur even with completely equal opportunity because variations in effort, skill, and luck…

— Janet Yellen

The increase in inequality in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly. Especially if…

— Alice Rivlin

The burning issue of our time is the growing inequality in income and wealth in our country, and it's got to be addressed. We've…

— Tom Harkin

Between persons of equal income there is no social distinction except the distinction of merit. Money is nothing: character, conduct, and capacity are everything.…

— George Bernard Shaw