Circumstances Quote by Matthew Arnold

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

— Matthew Arnold

Inequality is bad for everyone, not just the middle class and the poor

— Robert Reich

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

— George Packer

You need to look at inequality as a typical condition of modern society.

— Rem Koolhaas

Inequality is not so much a cause of economic, political, and social processes as a consequence. Some of these processes are good, some are…

— Angus Deaton

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

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

— Nicholas Kristof

This kind of inequality - a level we haven't seen since the Great Depression - hurts us all. When middle-class families can no longer…

— Barack Obama

Income inequality has become so prevalent in the U.S. that examples of its negative impact on the middle class are as common as Kanye…

— Ana Kasparian

Inequality is not just an issue between individuals, between classes, between regions. It's between urban and rural.

— Michael Ignatieff

“I conceive two species of inequality among men; one which I call natural, or physical inequality, because it is established by nature, and consists…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“The idea was that inequalities increase in the early phases of industrialization, because only a minority is prepared to benefit from the new wealth…

— Thomas Piketty