Growing Intolerance Quote by Tony Judt

“When economic imbalances became extreme, the lack of equilibrium and viability could threaten social and political order.”

— Joshua A. Berman

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

— Nicholas Kristof

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

— Matthew Desmond

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

— Edward Luce

Inequalities of wealth, unjustly established, have assuredly injured the nation in which they exist during their establishment; and, unjustly directed, they injure it yet…

— John Ruskin

“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

“Inequality can be alleviated and productivity growth promoted by combating overly zealous and regressive regulations”

— Robert J. Gordon

“When inequality alarmists like Krugman hold up the post-war era as a model, they are not doing so in the name of prosperity, or…

— Don Watkins

“there is a global rejection of society as it presently exists together with acceptance of the mechanisms that produce that society. De facto inequalities…

— Pierre Rosanvallon

“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

“Inequality is corrosive. It rots societies from within.”

— Tony Judt