Inequality Quotes - Page 9

• Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wealth, Superfluous

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden and on the Duty of Civil Disobedience”, p.233, Henry David Thoreau

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• Gender equality, historically has been predominantly a women's movement for women. But I think the impact of gender inequality and how it's affecting men hasn't really been addressed.

  Emma Watson

  Inspiring, Men, Thinking

  "Emma Watson Is Sorry to Tell You, but You’re Probably a Feminist" by Jennifer Swann, www.takepart.com. March 8, 2015.

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• Since nature does not endow all men with equal beauty or equal intelligence, and the faculty of volition leads men to make different choices, the egalitarians propose to abolish the "unfairness" of nature and of volition, and to establish universal equality in fact - in defiance of facts. It is not equality before the law that they seek, but inequality: the establishment of an inverted social pyramid, with a new aristocracy on top - the aristocracy of non-value.

  Ayn Rand

  Equality, Men, Law

  Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.119, Penguin

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• Passion for equality blinds the utopian to the fact that society, as a whole, is based on inequality of men in two respects: the inventor, the innovator, the exceptional man creates something new and insures continuous progress; the others emulate his work or merely improve their own lot by benefiting from his creativity.

  Thomas Steven Molnar

  Passion, Creativity, Men

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• As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways. Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.

  Al Sharpton

  Long, Racism, Slavery

  "Racism & Bias — Can We Pause and Be Honest with Ourselves?" by Al Sharpton, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 27, 2014.

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• So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Games, Long, Victory

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• Liberals talk about the 'income inequality' and the 'unfairness' and the disparity of the haves and the have-nots in New York City. Who has been running that city for all this time? Who has created the underclass in this country? It's the Democrat Party.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Country, New York

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

  Janet Jackson

  Endurance, Crowds

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• We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering.

  Artur Davis

  Party, Giving, Rose

  "Artur Davis Gives Speech At 2012 Republican Convention". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2012.

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• It is from this absolute indifference and tranquillity of the mind, that mathematical speculations derive some of the most considerable advantages; because there is nothing to interest the imagination; because the judgment sits free and unbiased to examine the point. All proportions, every arrangement of quantity, is alike to the understanding, because the same truths result to it from all; from greater from lesser, from equality and inequality.

  Edmund Burke

  Imagination, Understanding, Mind

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• Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.

  Adam Smith

  Affluence, Economics, Wealth Of Nations

  Adam Smith (2016). “The Wealth of Nations”, Xist Publishing

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• The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no meaning except within our own Western society.

  Albert Camus

  Spirit, Problem, Rebellion

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.20, Vintage

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• An inequality of property is the root and foundation of innumerable evils; it tends to derision, and to keep asunder the social feelings that should exist among the people of God. It is a principle originated in hell; it is the root of all evils. It is inequality in riches that is a great curse.

  Orson Pratt

  Roots, People, Evil

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• By defining the problem as 'hunger', the emergency food system is helping to direct our attention away from the more fundamental problem of poverty, and the even more basic problem of inequality.

  Janet Poppendieck

  Attention, Fundamentals, Emergencies

  Janet Poppendieck (1999). “Sweet Charity?: Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement”, p.305, Penguin

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• Development develops inequality.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Development

  Eduardo Galeano (1997). “Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent”, p.3, NYU Press

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• We can not have equilibrium in this world with the current inequality and destruction of Mother Earth. Capitalism is what is causing this problem and it needs to end.

  Evo Morales

  Mother, Needs, World

  "Cochabamba: Mining protests overshadow climate summit" by Claudia Lopez Pardo, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2010.

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• The more women help one another, the more we help ourselves. Acting like a coalition truly does produce results. Any coalition of support must also include men, many of whom care about gender inequality as much as women do.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Men, Support, Acting

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• All analysts spend half their time hunting through the literature for inequalities which they want to use and cannot prove.

  G. H. Hardy

  Math, Hunting, Use

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• If welfare and equality are to be primary aims of law, some people must necessarily possess a greater power of coercion in order to force redistribution of material goods. Political power alone should be equal among human beings; yet striving for other kinds of equality absolutely requires political inequality.

  Tibor R. Machan

  Equality, Order, Law

  Tibor R. Machan (1995). “Private Rights and Public Illusions”, p.81, Transaction Publishers

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• Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership; and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests.

  Chester Barnard

  Organization, Quality, Endurance

  "The Functions of the Executive" by Chester Barnard, Harvard University Press, (p. 282), 1938.

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• Nothing to mountaineering, just a little physical endurance, a good deal of brains, lots of practice, and plenty of warm clothing.

  Annie Smith Peck

  Practice, Brain, Endurance

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• What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?

  Djuna Barnes

  Endurance, Ruins, Depravity

  Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). “Nightwood”, p.125, New Directions Publishing

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• The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

  Jane Addams

  Inspiring, Peace, Equality

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.76, Courier Corporation

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• To understand the Left, one must understand that in its view the greatest evil is material inequality. The Left is more troubled by economic inequality than by evil as humanity has generally understood the term.

  Dennis Prager

  Views, Economic Inequality, Evil

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• A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Strong, Equality, Excellence

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