Ability Quote by Will Durant

We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view…

— Will Durant

The concentration of wealth in the hands of the few threatens the ability of ordinary people to raise their voices and have a say…

— Winnie Byanyima

The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration varies (other…

— Will Durant

“With the recent demise of totalitarian communisms, and new rise of capital’sglobal reach and power, it has become fashionable to explain away today’s gross…

— Kent Welton

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.

— Noam Chomsky

One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that…

— Adam Davidson

Poverty and wealth inequality are a form of instability into the future.

— Tavis Smiley

There are few problems in the world that economic prosperitycannot help solve. Yet the engines of that prosperity are under fierceattack. The forces that…

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

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

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“The second conclusion, which is the heart of the book, is that the dynamics of wealth distribution reveal powerful mechanisms pushing alternately toward convergence…

— Thomas Piketty

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

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