Unequal Quote by Trevor Paglen

If our economic system is to survive, there has to be a better distribution of wealth ... we can't have a system where some…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We live in a very unequal society.

— Jeremy Corbyn

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

— Jordan Peterson

Inequality is a poison that is destroying livelihoods, stripping families of dignity, and splitting communities.

— Sharan Burrow

I'm interested in illuminating the enormous disparity between vast poverty and the tiny upper class... This vast inequity is unfair by definition, and I…

— Nick McDonell

If everybody lives in the same way, there's something almost narcotizing about it, but the true misery of economic class difference is knowing that…

— James Gray

Highly unequal societies are morally defective because they get to be that way through the exploitation by the clever and well-positioned ones of the…

— Catherine Wilson

A too great disproportion among the citizens weakens any state. Every person, if possible, ought to enjoy the fruits of his labour, in a…

— David Hume

“From the late 19th century until the 1970s, the advanced societies of the West were all becoming less unequal. Thanks to progressive taxation, government…

— Tony Judt

“[G]reater social equality can accompany, or parallel, shifts in economic distribution. In our case, they run at cross-purposes; in other countries, notably in the…

— Michael S. Kimmel

“The more varigated and complicated a society, the greater the chance that those at the top will be ignorant of the realities at the…

— Tony Judt

The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and…

— Helene D. Gayle