Inequality Quote by Kofi Annan Download Open image “As long as inequality and other social problems plague us, populists will try to exploit them.” — Kofi Annan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Inequality Long Problems Social problems Try Will
“As morally troubling and politically charged as the issue of inequality has become, it's not likely to cause a populist revolt. Most Americans still… — Robert Frank Copy Share Image
The populists are right in one key area: voters want jobs and equitable growth, and can hardly be faulted for that. The challenge is… — Arancha Gonzalez Copy Share Image
The U.S. and, to a certain extent, countries in Europe as well, have experienced growing inequality within their population for decades - a small… — Nicholas Bloom Copy Share Image
Populism is about is alienation in large numbers of people, but aggravated and provoked by a deteriorating economic conditions. — Preston Manning Copy Share Image
It should be clear to everyone what happens when the populists can set the agenda. — Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer Copy Share Image
Populism is the simple premise that markets need to be restrained by society and by a democratic political system. We are not socialists or… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
The populists are spreading slogans. We have to offer solutions and answers. — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
The rise of populism is in part a response to stagnating incomes and job loss, owing mostly to new technologies but widely attributed to… — Richard N. Haass Copy Share Image
Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control their own… — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
A populist is someone who fights for common sense economic policies that sustain and expand the middle class. — Bruce Braley Copy Share Image
Liberals want to manage the damage with government programs to take care of those who have fallen between the cracks. Populists want to fix… — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
The populists always fail in their own terms. Let me be more specific, the protectionists always fail. They always end up delivering the sharpest… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life, often after… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
We were all children once. And we all share the desire for the well-being of our children, which has always been and will continue… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
You will recall that for months after 9/11, there was incredible support and sympathy for the US. I really hoped and wished they had… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
A nation has the right to defend itself, but when it comes to the broader issue of peace and security, the legitimacy rests only… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you take a tough action against one side in the conflict, they see you as part of the conflict and they attack… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Some have suggested that ideally there must be some international body that would treat areas like the Arctic as a global commerce, a bit… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
In an age of interdependence, global citizenship - based on trust and sense of shared responsibility - is a crucial pillar of progress. At… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
We knew the Syrian situation was complex and there were lots of divisions, particularly on the side of the opposition... This is a tough… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happens in the region? What… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Can the state, which represents the whole of society and has the duty of protecting society, fulfill that duty by lowering itself to the… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Race is the idea that a human being is more superior than another human being, race in society grants illusional rights to mistreat each… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
Inequality is pervasive but invisible. It's hard to see. You need a sort of tool to make it visible. — Hito Steyerl Copy Share Image
It clearly follows that to make men moral it is necessary to make their social environment moral. And that can be done in only… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
'Inequality' has become the political theme/slogan of our time in both Europe and the U.S., yet political leaders do not even bother to consider… — Paul Singer Copy Share Image
Yeah, maybe that's the way to solve the gender inequality that's naturally in relationships: to have a lot more power in the woman. — Celine Song Copy Share Image
“In no country does the average income give the right picture of how people live but in a country with higher inequality it is… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at… — Plato Copy Share Image
I made an effort to ensure social safeguards. But our economy has to grow - and Chile, with a population of 17 million, cannot… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
I don't know another way to try to deal with income inequality than actually having entrepreneurs and inventors creating the kind of jobs that… — Francis X. Suarez Copy Share Image
I don't see much future for the Americans ... it's a decayed country. And they have their racial problem, and the problem of social… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image