Inequality Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Inequality

Inequality Quotes & Sayings

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As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest. — Nelson Mandela

Inequality was the unalterable law of human life. — George Orwell

Inequality for gay and lesbian people is no longer a debatable issue in either church or state. — John Shelby Spong

I think it's wrong that only one percent of the people should own ninety percent of the country. — Sally Wentworth

The main force pushing toward reduction in inequality has always been the diffusion of knowledge and the diffusion of education. — Thomas Piketty

Yet sometimes the world judges females by a different standard and seeks to punish them unjustly. — Victoria Thompson

It's not inequality which is the real misfortune, it's dependence — Voltaire

We have growing wealth creation and growing social inequality. Powerful — Don Tapscott

[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband. — Wallace Stegner

Income inequality has gotten worse under President Barack Obama. — Timothy Noah

The most important problem for our world to solve is the inequality of men and women. — Frederick Lenz

He was too smitten by his second wife and the sons she produced easily and regularly at eighteen-month intervals to bother too much about a daughter. — Anita Nair

Inequality is corrosive. It rots societies from within. — Tony Judt

The low suffer most the blow of the law — Agona Apell

If we save the planet and have a society of inequality, we wouldn't have saved much. — James H. Cone

I would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government. — Milton Friedman

You need to look at inequality as a typical condition of modern society. — Rem Koolhaas

Extreme inequality and financial crisis usually coincide. But the elite who cause it usually come out OK. And they are usually man. — Katrine Marcal

Tolerance of intolerance enables oppression. — DaShanne Stokes

Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence. — Tarja Halonen

Socialism and Communism have failed, but now Capitalism is failing us. — Jo M. Sekimonyo

My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice. — Johann Lamont

our society is unequal, and bodily difference is used to justify that inequality. — Emer O'Toole

The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever. — Gerry Adams

Pity womankind, but never a woman. — Warren Eyster

Charity is one of those remarkable words that helps to identify the fault lines of a culture. — Janet Poppendieck

It was impossible to quarrel with words, whose tremulous inequality showed indisposition so plainly. — Jane Austen

Love is based on inequality as friendship is on equality. — William Butler Yeats

The women who do the most work get the least money, and the women who have the most money do the least work. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The top 10 per cent of the US population appropriated 91 per cent of income growth between 1989 and 2006, while the top 1 per cent took 59 per cent. — Ha-Joon Chang

You have to let the market reward effort and skill. But a system in which inequality of incomes constantly increases over time is worrisome. — Timothy Noah

There's not a place in the whole world where everyone isn't willing
no, eager
to give a girl up to a man. — Rae Carson

The American woman's inequality with men is proved by her defiant attitude. — Simone De Beauvoir

Desire, ignorance, and inequality - this is the trinity of bondage. — Swami Vivekananda

If we agree that God did not create poverty then, in my opinion, it came in to being as a consequence of human rights violations. — Q.M. Sidd

Happiness is often at its most intense when it is based on inequality. — James Salter

Moving beyond past wounds and hurts and building a culture of respect, dignity, and flowering love — William Keepin

Your indignant behavior over the slightest perceived gender inequality makes it almost certain that inequality is what you masturbate to at night. — Kitty Thomas

The miracle is therefore a sign of love among equals. Equals should not be in awe of one another because awe implies inequality. — Foundation For Inner Peace

Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination. — Mary Douglas

That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity. — Lester Maddox

As has been long observed, men are people, but women are women. — Cordelia Fine

I have to admit, I was quite insensitive to the issue of gender inequality in the workplace until a few years ago. — Naina Lal Kidwai

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

Bestowing upon men equality of rights is but giving license to the strong to oppress the weak. It begets the grossest inequality of condition. — George Fitzhugh

Inequality is the inevitable consequence of liberty. — Salvador De Madariaga

Lenin, Stalin, and Mao slaughtered even more tens of millions in the name of equality than Hitler murdered in the name of inequality. — Steve Sailer

Does inequality in the distribution of income increase or decrease in the course of a country's economic growth? — Simon Kuznets

When inequality gets to an extreme, it is completely useless for growth. — Thomas Piketty

It occurred to me that as a man I could do anything, everything I wanted. — Sara Sheridan

America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next. — Nicholas Kristof

We still have gaps that are rooted in gender inequality. Certainly we have discrimination against the LGBT community. — Hillary Clinton

Women empowerment begins at home! — Alex Haditaghi

I've been talking about things like reversing the rise of inequality and strengthening social
mobility,since before it was cool. — Barack Obama

Women can't wait for equal pay. And I won't stop fighting to address this inequality. — Barack Obama

Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality. — George Bernard Shaw

...we should in the interests of accuracy refer not to 'democratic free market capitalism' but to 'plutocratic impunity capitalism'. — Robert Wade

The most convincing and enduring foe of the global financial economy ultimately is the global financial economy itself. - Ulrich Beck — Richard Swift

If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves? — Mary Astell

The only true and sustainable prosperity is shared prosperity. — Joseph E. Stiglitz

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class. — Matthew Arnold

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. — Paulo Freire

Blatant, intentional discrimination against women is far from being something merely to be read about in history books. — Cordelia Fine

Capitalism is, fundamentally, an economic system that promotes inequality. — Annalee Newitz

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

Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it seems hid, and hide the false seems true. — William Shakespeare

Women the world over suffer restrictions. — Sara Sheridan

Inequality is on the rise. — William Finnegan

All told, over the period 1932-1980, nearly half a century, the top federal income tax rate in the United States averaged 81 percent. — Thomas Piketty

With a Socialist government, there will not be a national surplus whilst there continues to be inequality. — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Motherhood is a greater predictor of wage inequality than gender is. It's enormous. — Anne-Marie Slaughter

Beware of critics of education who cloak their desire to protect privilege (and inequality) in the garb of educational reform. — Michael S. Roth

Government mitigates the inequality of power, and makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow-subjects. — Joseph Addison

People call me a feminist whenever I express statements that distinguish me from a doormat. — Rebecca West

American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn't be. — Eric Alterman

Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against. — DaShanne Stokes

In a country which had accepted caste distinctions for many centuries, inequality had become an inborn mental concept. — Khushwant Singh

Rising inequality isn't about who has the knowledge; it's about who has the power. — Paul Krugman

Society is impossible without inequality, inequality intolerable without a code of morality, and a code of morality unacceptable without religion. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus. — Elizabeth I

It's well proven that if you have equality in society, society flourishes, and if you have inequality, it doesn't. So it's good for everybody. — Sarah Gavron

If we don't rebuild that connection with people we will really find even bigger gaps, because our gap on inequality is not just economic. — Hillary Clinton

Custom is the great leveller. It corrects the inequality of fortune by lessening equally the pleasures of the prince and the pains of the peasant. — Henry Home, Lord Kames

Nothing reminds one of how shitty inequality is more often than the fact that there are companies who make and people who use 1-ply toilet papers. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun. — Thomas Carlyle

If you're just the person with power, exercising that power fearfully and angrily, you're going to be an operative of injustice and inequality. — Bryan Stevenson

Understandably she had a lot of suitors, just like any other girls in China with two arms and legs. — Vann Chow

You can't solve a problem as complex as inequality in one legal clause. — Theresa May

How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak? — Isabel Allende

We can and must respond creatively to the triple crisis and simultaneously overcome dehumanization, economic inequality, and, ecological catastrophe. — Vandana Shiva

I will always have enough money to last the rest of my life ... as long as I don't buy anything. — Ed Asner

Ban privileges. The rules of the game should be the same to all players, regardless of their size, location, or any other criteria — Miguel Reynolds Brandao

Inequality is the cause of all local movements. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Marriage ... is still the imperfect institution it must remain while women continue to be ill-educated, passive, and subservient ... — Harriet Martineau

Inequality is the root of social evil. — Pope Francis

If you consider people, not countries, global inequality is falling rapidly. — Charles Wheelan

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house — Audre Lorde

You have to be interested in inequality. The issue of inequality and that of poverty are not separable. — Amartya Sen

I put in no claims either for happiness, for gratification, or even for the common comforts of life: yet, surely, I had a right to exist! — Mary Hays

The problem is that rich are getting richer by not giving and poor and getting poorer by not receiving. — Santosh Kalwar