Capacity Quote by Pope Leo XIII

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 answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to…

— Jordan Peterson

If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires…

— Geraldine Brooks

The only inequalities that matter begin in the mind. It is not income levels but differences in mental equipment that keep people apart, breed…

— Jacquetta Hawkes

In financial terms, my sense is that the distribution of wealth, unequal as it is, is self-perpetuating, and, especially in a linked and accelerating…

— Pico Iyer

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

— John Maynard Keynes

According to bourgeois standards, those who are completely unlucky and unsuccessful are automatically barred from competition, which is the life of society. Good fortune…

— Hannah Arendt

It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it…

— Voltaire

Inequalities of wealth lead to a dispersion in wealth for all.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

Whatever advantages may have arisen, in the past, out of the existence of a specially favored and highly privileged aristocracy, it is clear to…

— Margaret Mead

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

— Ferdinand Mount