Quote by Tony Judt Download Open image ““Inequality is corrosive. It rots societies from within.”” — Tony Judt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Inequality is not only natural and inborn, it grows with the complexity of civilization.” — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Inequality is not necessarily bad in itself: the key question is to decide whether it is justified, whether there are reasons for it.” — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
“When inequality takes root, a garden of problems flourishes.” — Chintha Sai Bhargav Reddy Copy Share Image
“All around us we see a level of individual wealth unequaled since the early years of the 20th century.” — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“We must also consider inequality within and not just between countries. I” — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
“Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Economic inequality is a corrosive force that undermines economic growth, puts a brake on the fight against poverty, and sparks social unrest. — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
I don't believe in an afterlife. I don't believe in a single or multiple godhead. I respect people who do, but I don't believe… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“Markets do not automatically generate trust, cooperation or collective action for the common good. Quite the contrary: it is in the nature of economic… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“ Lieux de memoire . . . 'exist because there are no longer any milieux de memoire , settings in which memory is a… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“Keynes died in 1946, exhausted by his wartime efforts. But he had long since demonstrated that neither capitalism nor liberalism would survive very long… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
The Second World War had a precipitating effect in that it discredited the empires, as well as bankrupting them. Not only could you no… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“That the state might exceed its remit and damage the market by distorting its operations was not taken very seriously in these years.” — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“Whatever their other differences, French Gaullists, Christian Democrats and Socialists shared a common faith in the activist state, economic planning and large-scale public investment.… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
I think if I'm controversial it's not because I set out to be. It's because I've never felt comfortable being part of someone else's… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“This reduction of 'society' to a thin membrane of interactions between private individuals is presented today as the ambition of libertarians and free marketeers.… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“Something is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
We have responsibilities for others, not just across space but across time. We have responsibilities to people who came before us. They left us… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image