Inequality Quotes - Page 13

• The equality among all members of the League, which is provided in the statutes giving each state only one vote, cannot of course abolish the actual material inequality of the powers concerned.

  Hjalmar Branting

  Equality, League, Giving

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• There's something in the cross that says this is not just about my "salvation" but about the "salvation" of all those who suffer injustice and inequality.

  Mel White

  Suffering, Notable, Injustice

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• It's much more acceptable for men to work and father kids. There's an inherent inequality, because we want to do it all, and I don't know how we can do this all.

  Julia Louis-Dreyfus

  Father, Kids, Men

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• The increase in inequality in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly. Especially if they live in an area where there are high housing and gas prices, like California.

  Alice Rivlin

  California, Low Income, Trends

  "MAKING ENDS MEET / The well-off are better off, but the ranks of the poor are growing, and middle- and low-income workers feel pressure of high prices" by Jason B. Johnson, www.sfgate.com. September 28, 2005.

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• I think it's a very central tenet to it yes, it is. I can't bear it, I can't bear inequality, I can't bear bad behaviour to other people. I cannot bear it that people are mean to people who can't help what they are.

  Janet Suzman

  Mean, Thinking, People

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The Church in the Philippines is called to acknowledge and combat the causes of the deeply rooted inequality and injustice which mar the face of Filipino society, plainly contradicting the teaching of Christ.

  Pope Francis

  Teaching, Church, Mars

  Pope Francis (2016). “Men of Mercy: Pope Francis Speaks to Priests”, p.73, BookBaby

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I have lectured at the U.N. and travelled widely, giving lectures on human rights and gender inequalities in universities. But this is a life I do not wish to live. I don't want to be a showcase, I want to be in a battlefield where I can stand beside the oppressed and the poor.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Rights, Giving, Wish

  "Exiled writer says: 'I am dying every day in the west'". Interview with Anthony Dias, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2009.

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• Eye-popping tales of growing income inequality are hardly new. By now, nearly every American must be painfully aware of the widening pay gap between top executives and shop floor laborers; between 'Master of the Universe' financiers and pretty much everyone else.

  Steven Rattner

  Eye, Pay Gap, Growing

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