Ability Quote by Will Durant

Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches; and tho' avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor,…

— Thomas Paine

“repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.”

— John Steinbeck

“Oppression is built on a series of assumptions, and if they begin to crumble, the system is in grave danger. The assumptions have got…

— Pearl Cleage

“When people are kept in abject poverty and illiteracy while others grow rich and “develop their personalities” at the former’s expense we speak of…

— Miroslav Volf

The growth of equality … calls for decisions, mechanisms and processes directed to a better distribution of wealth, the creation of sources of employment…

— Pope Francis

“Recently, the International Monetary Fund published a report which revealed that too much inequality even inhibits economic growth.22 Perhaps the most fascinating finding, however,…

— Rutger Bregman

Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.

— Margaret Atwood

Inequality provokes a generalized anger that finds targets where it can--immigrants, foreign countries, American elites, government in all forms--and it rewards demagogues while discrediting…

— George Packer

Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.

— Anonymous

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

— Matthew Desmond

Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of…

— Friedrich August von Hayek