Quote by Pierre Rosanvallon

“History tells us that inequality soars when societies develop.”

— Edward Luce

There's no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.

— Jordan Peterson

“What determines inequality among individuals within a single nation? Are there certain regularities that make inequality behave in a particular way as societies develop?”

— Branko Milanović

“But equal treatment in an unequal society could still foster inequality.”

— Matthew Desmond

“Where there is true variety, there will be inevitable 'inequality' - that is simply the result of human nature and the pluralism that defines…

— Cory Bernardi

“People are egalitarian by nature, and unequal societies can never function well due to resentment and dissatisfaction. But”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Our democratic societies rest on a meritocratic worldview, or at any rate a meritocratic hope, by which I mean a belief in a society…

— Thomas Piketty

We are dealing with the greater challenges of globalisation. It is generating, in many cases, an increase in the levels of inequality in societies...…

— Jose Angel Gurria

“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

“The effort to transform natural inequalities into social equality could only lead to greater, more brutal inequality; the socialist effort to transform individual diversity…

— David Horowitz

“Realizing that inequality is socially constructed empowers us to be agents of change.”

— Julia T. Wood

We live in a very unequal society.

— Jeremy Corbyn