quotes about Inequality
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Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.
-- Adam SmithSource : Adam Smith (2016). “The Wealth of Nations”, Xist Publishing
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You have to be invited to the party. You have to be invited to work, which is weird. That can be frustrating. But gender inequality is pretty similar through almost every industry, unfortunately.
-- Daryl HannahSource : "SENSE8: Daryl Hannah Reflects on Performing in the Wachowskis’ Latest Project". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 10, 2015.
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What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?
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Development develops inequality.
-- Eduardo GaleanoSource : Eduardo Galeano (1997). “Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent”, p.3, NYU Press
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Sex -- the great inequality, the great miscalculator, the great Irritator.
-- Enid Bagnold -
American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn't be.
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The Procrustean bed is not a symbol of equality. It is no less inequality to have equality among unequals.
-- Felix Frankfurter -
Private property implies exclusivity, inequality, and difference.
-- Hans-Hermann HoppeSource : Hans-Hermann Hoppe (2011). “DemocracyThe God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order”, p.217, Transaction Publishers
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Marriage ... is still the imperfect institution it must remain while women continue to be ill-educated, passive, and subservient ...
-- Harriet MartineauSource : Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.120
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We can do better. ...We can't ignore the inequalities that persist in our justice system that undermine our most deeply held values of fairness and equality.
-- Hillary Clinton -
The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.
-- James Anthony Froude -
If we save the planet and have a society of inequality, we wouldn't have saved much.
-- James H. Cone -
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Happiness is often at its most intense when it is based on inequality.
-- James Salter -
You get yourself up for it somehow, and your endurance and the crowd gets you up, too.
-- Janet Jackson -
Everyone has an equal right to inequality.
-- John Ralston Saul -
With a Socialist government, there will not be a national surplus whilst there continues to be inequality.
-- Jose Luis Rodriguez ZapateroSource : "Rodríguez Zapatero reprocha a Rajoy que no afronte el debate presupuestario como líder del PP". Newspaper article, www.elmundo.es. October 29, 2003.
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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.
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American inequality didn't just happen. It was created.
-- Joseph StiglitzSource : Joseph E. Stiglitz (2013). “The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future”, p.34, W. W. Norton & Company
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Contrary to the received wisdom, global markets are not unregulated. They are regulated to produce inequality.
-- Kevin WatkinsSource : "Winners and losers and the great divide" by Kevin Watkins, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2000.
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The only living socities are those which are animated by inequality and injustice.
-- Paul ClaudelSource : "Conversations dans le Loir-et-Cher". Book by Paul Claudel, p. 22; translation from The Independent, February 6, 2001, 1984.
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Rising inequality isn’t about who has the knowledge; it’s about who has the power.
-- Paul Krugman -
Education is not the only answer and it's certainly not the immediate solution. At best, it's a necessary, but not sufficient response to widening inequality.
-- Robert Reich -
Regardless of how you interpret the facts, you have to come to the conclusion that inequality is widening in the US and in almost every other country.
-- Robert Reich -
Lenin, Stalin, and Mao slaughtered even more tens of millions in the name of equality than Hitler murdered in the name of inequality.
-- Steve SailerSource : "The Coming War Over Genes: Darwin's Enemies on the Left". www.unz.com. December 01, 1999.
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The engine of growth is also the engine of inequality,
-- T. J. Stiles -
Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.
-- Tarja HalonenSource : Tarja Halonen's speech at the opening of the Women of Learning exhibition in Helsinki, www.helsinki.fi. August 5, 2000.
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You can't solve a problem as complex as inequality in one legal clause.
-- Theresa May -
It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
-- VoltaireSource : "Equality" by Voltaire, 1764.
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Love is based on inequality as friendship is on equality.
-- William Butler Yeats -
Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.
-- William Dean HowellsSource : William Dean Howells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of William Dean Howells (Illustrated)”, p.6151, Delphi Classics
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The scale of global inequality is quite simply staggering.
-- Winnie ByanyimaSource : "Wealthiest 1% will soon own more than rest of us combined, Oxfam says" by Faith Karimi, www.cnn.com. January 19, 2015.
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Capitalism is a system that's ultimately predicated on and depends on some form of inequality. Feminism has always intersected with capitalism in terms of women's labor and gendered divisions of labor.
-- Andi ZeislerSource : Source: therumpus.net
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We're dealing with a crisis of inequality, of joblessness, of underemployment.
-- Avi LewisSource : Source: www.indiewire.com
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The higher the coefficient of inequality (Gini coefficient) in a society, the worse things tend to be for those at the bottom.
-- Catherine Wilson -
Decreasing economic growth and increasing inequality leads to increased uncertainty.
-- Nicholas Bloom -
Cancer has changed how I see adversity, because there is so much inequality in the treatment of the disease and it shouldn't have to be that you live or die depending on where you live. I'm still learning not to sweat the small things and to live each day to the fullest.
-- Thelma Jones -
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There is still nothing like equality for women in jobs, in family. There's just an awareness that inequality is not acceptable.
-- Alix Kates Shulman -
The United States has worse income inequality than Nigeria.
-- Max FisherSource : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
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Health inequalities and the social determinants of health are not a footnote to the determinants of health. They are the main issue.
-- Michael Marmot -
Health and health inequalities tell us a great deal about the good or bad effects of social policies.
-- Michael Marmot -
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You can call it institutionalized racism or institutionalized inequality, but what I say is that any system that operates to maintain inequality is a corrupt system and must be addressed.
-- Robert D BullardSource : Source: www.guernicamag.com