Inequality Quotes - Page 11

• Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

  James Russell Lowell

  Patience, Passion, Heart

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.166, Delphi Classics

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• If the economists are arguing as to whether we need to cut or stimulate, because they're completely opposite policies, and they can't work it out then I would say let us work it out for you. Let's look at the lives people are able to lead, the effect of policies on the lives people are able to lead, and hence the likely effect on health and health inequalities.

  Michael Marmot

  Cutting, Opposites, People

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• For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Wisdom, Believe, Income

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.342, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Being attentive to inequality and not tone deaf to it. But offering prescriptions that are actually going to help folks in communities that feel forgotten. That's going to be our most important strategy. And I think we can successfully do that.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Offering, Community

  "President Obama’s first press conference of the Trump era, annotated". www.washingtonpost.com. November 14, 2016.

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• Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3821, Manonmani Publishers

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• Inequalities of wealth, unjustly established, have assuredly injured the nation in which they exist during their establishment; and, unjustly directed, they injure it yet more during their existence. But inequalities of wealth justly established, benefit the nation in the course of their establishment; and, nobly used, aid it yet more by their existence.

  John Ruskin

  Benefits, Wealth, Aids

  John Ruskin (2001). “Unto this Last”, p.29, Electric Book Company

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• the art of becoming 'rich', in the common sense, is not absolutely nor finally the art of accumulating much money for ourselves, but also of contriving that our neighbour shall have less. In accurate terms, it is 'the art of establishing the maximum inequality in your own favour'.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Common Sense, Becoming

  John Ruskin (1938). “Unto this last: and other essays”

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• It's an irony that growing inequality could mean more money for philanthropy. In the US, quite a few of the ultra-rich have taken to heart the 19th century industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie's comment that it's a disgrace to die wealthy.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Taken, Heart, Mean

  "Civil engineering" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2007.

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• If all were equalized by death, as the medieval idea constantly emphasized, was it not possible that inequalities on earth were contrary to the will of God?

  Barbara Tuchman

  Ideas, Earth, Medieval

  "A Distant Mirror". Book by Barbara Tuchman, p. 375, 1978.

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• In a really equal democracy, every or any section would be represented, not disproportionately, but proportionately. ... Unless they are, there is not equal government, but a government of inequality and privilege: one part of the people rule over the rest: there is a part whose fair and equal share of influence in the representation is withheld from them, contrary to all just government, but, above all, contrary to the principle of democracy, which professes equality as its very root and foundation.

  John Stuart Mill

  Roots, Government, People

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• Solving the population problem is not going to solve the problems of racism, of sexism, of religious intolerance, of war, of gross economic inequality. But if you don't solve the population problem, you're not going to solve any of those problems. Whatever problem you're interested in, you're not going to solve it unless you also solve the population problem. Whatever your cause, it's a lost cause without population control.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Religious, War, Population Problem

  "Paul Ehrlich and the Population Bomb". PBS video produced by David Suzuki,

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• The Unheavenly Chorus is the definitive study of participatory inequality in America. Marshaling prodigious evidence, the authors show how money not only buys influence directly but also affects associations that are supposed to be democratic antidotes to concentrated wealth. A monumental achievement of careful scholarship, this book offers real knowledge of how politics actually operates.

  Robert Kuttner

  Real, Book, America

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• The term 'income inequality' is a bit misleading because it suggests in a somewhat pejorative way that the rich are getting richer at the expense of the poor.

  Edward Lazear

  Income, Way, Rich

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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 Hannah

  Party, Gender, Frustrating

  "SENSE8: Daryl Hannah Reflects on Performing in the Wachowskis’ Latest Project". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 10, 2015.

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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

  Bed, Symbols

  "New York v. United States, 331 U.S. 284". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. May 12, 1947.

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• Inequality of wealth and incomes is an essential feature of the market economy. It is the implement that makes the consumers supreme in giving them the power to force all those engaged in production to comply with their orders. It forces all those engaged in production to the utmost exertion in the service of the consumers. It makes competition work. He who best serves the consumers profits most and accumulates riches.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Order, Giving, Competition

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays”

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• We have to deal with issues like inequality, we have deal with issues of economic dislocation, we have to deal with peoples fears that their children won't do as well as they have. The more aggressively and effectively we deal with those issues, the less those fears may channel themselves into counter-productive approaches that pit people against each other.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Issues, People

  Source: time.com

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• 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.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Rising, Trends, Constant

  Source: www.theoryculturesociety.org

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• I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable, but the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wisdom, Division, Politics

  Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.154, Hackett Publishing

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• I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men." "Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

  Jane Austen

  Song, Book, Men

  'Persuasion' (1818) ch. 23 (Anne Eliot)

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• Yesterday was not only daylight saving time, but also International Women's Day. What better way to address the issue of inequality for women than giving them a day that's missing an hour.

  David Letterman

  Yesterday, Issues, Giving

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• Hillary Clinton is making income inequality a central theme in her campaign. Yeah, for example, today she pointed out that her husband makes $300 million a year. She has to get by on $200 million a year, and that's not fair.

  Conan O'Brien

  Husband, Years, Example

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• Capitalism cannot be reduced to one or a few features, but it does possess one relationship, central to its existence and operation, that constitutes the essence of inequality and ineradicable instability: the wage-labor-capital connection that dwells at the heart of the system.

  Herbert Schiller

  Heart, Essence, Connections

  "Living In The Number One Country". Book by Herbert Schiller, 2000.

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• Triumphant capitalism has unleashed a powerful drive toward inequality, not improvement, in the social sphere.

  Herbert Schiller

  Powerful, Spheres, Improvement

  "Living In The Number One Country". Book by Herbert Schiller, 2000.

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• Structuralism argues that a liberal capitalist world economy tends to preserve or actually increase inequalities between developed and less developed economies.

  Robert Gilpin

  World, Arguing, Economy

  "The Political Economy of International Relations". Book by Robert Gilpin, 1987.

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