Differences Quote by Jacquetta Hawkes

For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.

— John Maynard Keynes

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

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

— Ferdinand Mount

The term 'income inequality' is a bit misleading because it suggests in a somewhat pejorative way that the rich are getting richer at the…

— Edward Lazear

Income inequality is troubling because, among other things, it means that many people in our society don't have the opportunities to advance themselves.

— Ben Bernanke

There have always been two theories about inequality. One is that it reflects just deserts. The other is that there are large elements of…

— Joseph Stiglitz

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

Income inequality matters more on a day-to-day basis. Wealth matters more for political influence.

— Thomas Pogge

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

“Income inequality,” say two leading scientists who have studied twenty-four developed countries, “makes us all less happy with our lives, even if we’re relatively…

— Rutger Bregman

People with lower incomes tend to give a greater percentage of their incomes to help others and show greater empathy and compassion - perhaps…

— Kavita Ramdas

Some people say we have this inequality because some people have been contributing much more to our society, and so it's fair that they…

— Joseph Stiglitz