Inequality Quotes - Page 29

• I think inequality is in our minds. I think this is what we learn through practice... The bridge of illusion must be shattered in order for a real bridge to be constructed. One of the things we learn is that inequality is an illusion.

  Bell Hooks

  Real, Thinking, Order

  "Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". www.lionsroar.com. March 24, 2017.

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• Diversity there certainly is in the world, but it means neither inequality nor untouchability.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Diversity, World

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”

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• The elephant needs a thousand times more food than the ant but that is not an indication of inequality.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Equality, Elephants, Needs

  Mahatma Gandhi (1981). “Collected Works”

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• "Free markets" is a very general term. There are all sorts of problems that will emerge. Free markets work best when the transaction between two individuals affects only those individuals. Most often, a transaction between you and me affects a third party. That is the source of all problems for government. That is the source of all pollution problems, of the inequality problem. This reality ensures that the end of history will never come.

  Milton Friedman

  Party, Reality, Government

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The entire social order ... is arrayed against a woman who wants to rise to a man's reputation.

  Madame de Stael

  Men, Order, Want

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• The rationale that etiquette should be eschewed because it fosters inequality does not ring true in a society that openly admits to a feverish interest in the comparative status-conveying qualities of sneakers. Manners are available to all, for free.

  Judith Martin

  Sneakers, Quality, Doe

  Judith Martin (1996). “Common courtesy: in which Miss Manners solves the problem that baffled Mr. Jefferson”

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• Woman cannot be free until man's mind is liberated from the megalomania! His self-exaltation is the mother of the gender inequalities. Till we eliminate his exacerbated narcissism, woman will remain unfree!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Mother, Men, Self

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• Giving a minimum wage reduces inequality significantly.

  Winnie Byanyima

  Inspiring, Giving, Minimum Wage

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• Prolonged endurance tames the bold.

  Lord Byron

  Endurance

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.997, Delphi Classics

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• How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points? This is a case of exclusion.

  Pope Francis

  Elderly, Two, Economic Inequality

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.21, BookBaby

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• Rising inequality can create a more highly leveraged economy, and it can then make the economy vulnerable to a crash like 2008.

  Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

  Rising, Vulnerable, Crash

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Achievement, Soul, Endurance

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• Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Rights, Evil, Good And Evil

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• The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Political, Politics, Poverty

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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• I feel like part of the inequality is that there are few great roles written for older women, and I think part of that is, basically, people want to look at young women, whereas men are still considered attractive - or more attractive - when they get older.

  Erin Davie

  Men, Thinking, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Because it is such a huge crisis, because it puts us on a firm science-based deadline, it's a once-in-a-century opportunity to build a better society and address raging inequality, create huge numbers of jobs, rebuild our public infrastructure. But, we can't do it unless we break every single rule in the free-market playbook. Which is why the worst people in the world all deny climate change.

  Naomi Klein

  Jobs, Opportunity, Numbers

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• Ah, there are moments for us here, when, seeing
  Life's inequalities, and woe, and care,
  The burdens laid upon our mortal being
  Seem heavier than the human heart can bear.

  Phoebe Cary

  Heart, Bears, Care

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• Let us wage a moral and political war against the gross wealth and income inequality... ...let us understand that when we stand together, we will always win.

  Bernie Sanders

  War, Winning, Political

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• This is what income inequality means in America, and why the gap between the very rich and everyone else is growing wider. According to a recent study, CEO pay is now 295 times more than the pay of a typical worker. In 1965, the differential was 20 times. We must create an economy that works for all, not just the top 1%.

  Bernie Sanders

  Mean, America, Typical

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• We [the Republicans] help the middle class when we unburden them from the very policies that Hillary Clinton would double down on. She champions Big Government, which we know enables crony capitalism and exacerbates inequality. If you are wealthy, powerful and well-connected, you can handle Big Government.

  Carly Fiorina

  Powerful, Government, Class

  "Reynolds: Carly Fiorina, the other woman". Interview with Glenn Harlan Reynolds, www.usatoday.com. July 19, 2015.

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

  Tarja Halonen

  Problem, Competence, Solve

  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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• Contrary to a tenacious myth, France is not owned by California pension funds or the Bank of China, any more than the United States belongs to Japanese and German investors. The fear of getting into such a predicament is so strong today that fantasy often outstrips reality. The reality is that inequality with respect to capital is a far greater domestic issue than it is an international one.

  Thomas Piketty

  Strong, Reality, California

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• Will it be said that the judgment of a male of two years old, is more sage than that of a female's of the same age? I believe the reverse is generally observed to be true. But from that period what partiality! how is the one exalted, and the other depressed, by the contrary modes of education which are adopted! the one is taught to aspire, and the other is early confined and limited. As their years increase, the sister must be wholly domesticated, while the brother is led by the hand through all the flowery paths of science.

  Judith Sargent Murray

  Brother, Believe, Hands

  Judith Sargent Murray, Sharon M. Harris (1995). “Selected Writings of Judith Sargent Murray”, p.6, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• The devastation of neoliberalism is so multi-fold, whether it's violence against women or desperate economic inequality or the destruction of the planet.

  Eve Ensler

  Economic Inequality, Neoliberalism, Devastation

  "Avocados and Vaginas". Interview with Joe Saxon, www.thestateofthearts.co.uk. May 16, 2015.

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• To me, feminism means equality between men and women. I want to make people laugh and also point out some injustices or inequalities I see.

  Amy Schumer

  Mean, Men, People

  "Amy Schumer Answers Your Questions About Sex, Comedy, and Feminism". Q&A with Readers, jezebel.com. April 29, 2014.

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