George Packer Quotes About Inequality

Quotes about: Inequality

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

  George Packer

  Class, Democracy, Inequality

• The biggest issue for me is whether large numbers of Americans can begin to think that government can actually help make the country a fairer place. And that's partly a matter of policies that achieve results in terms of reducing inequality and raising middle-class and working-class incomes, which have been flat for decades. But it's also symbolic and rhetorical, it's whether Hillary Clinton can - or whoever's president - can persuade Americans that it's happening and that they can begin to trust their elected officials a little bit more and their institutions of government a little bit more.

  George Packer

  Country, Thinking, Class

  Source: www.npr.org

• Inequality saps the will to conceive of ambitious solutions to large collective problems, because those problems no longer seem very collective.

  George Packer

  Class, Ambitious, Sap

• 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 reformers.

  George Packer

  Country, Government, Class

• Like an odorless gas, [inequality] pervades every corner of the United States and saps the strength of the country's democracy. But it seems impossible to find the source and shut it off.

  George Packer

  Country, Democracy, United States

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