Inequality Quotes

A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much and so many have so little.

It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

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

Rising inequality isn’t about who has the knowledge; it’s about who has the power.

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

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.

Health inequalities and the social determinants of health are not a footnote to the determinants of health. They are the main issue.

American inequality didn't just happen. It was created.

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

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

Gender inequality is not one problem, it's a collection of problems.

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

Private property implies exclusivity, inequality, and difference.

Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.

Inequality hardens society into a class system. Inequality divides us from one another... Inequality undermines democracy.

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.

Health and health inequalities tell us a great deal about the good or bad effects of social policies.

The only living socities are those which are animated by inequality and injustice.

Contrary to the received wisdom, global markets are not unregulated. They are regulated to produce inequality.

If you're perpetuating discrimination, you're perpetuating inequality.

Sex -- the great inequality, the great miscalculator, the great Irritator.

Racial inequality is a big problem.

You get yourself up for it somehow, and your endurance and the crowd gets you up, too.

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.

Inequality promotes progress.

Everyone has an equal right to inequality.

The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.

We're dealing with a crisis of inequality, of joblessness, of underemployment.

Wealth inequality has increased.

My advice to everybody would be to go out as much as possible and deal with social inequality and environmental degradation because these issues are increasingly prescient.

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.

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

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

There is still nothing like equality for women in jobs, in family. There's just an awareness that inequality is not acceptable.

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.

Prolonged endurance tames the bold.

We have a reversal of a longstanding trend, from rising inequality across nations and constant or declining inequality within nations, to declining inequality across nations and rising inequality within them.

Inequality is the inevitable consequence of liberty.

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.

The Procrustean bed is not a symbol of equality. It is no less inequality to have equality among unequals.

Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.

Decreasing economic growth and increasing inequality leads to increased uncertainty.

The inequality between the world's individuals is staggering.

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.

Development develops inequality.

Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.

The women who do the most work get the least money, and the women who have the most money do the least work.

The engine of growth is also the engine of inequality.

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

The higher the coefficient of inequality (Gini coefficient) in a society, the worse things tend to be for those at the bottom.