Inequality Quotes - Page 7

• Excessive economic, social and cultural inequalities among peoples arouse tensions and conflicts, and are a danger to peace.

  Pope Paul VI

  Peace, Ubuntu, Conflict

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• If you're just the person with power, exercising that power fearfully and angrily, you're going to be an operative of injustice and inequality.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Exercise, Injustice, Persons

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Inequality promotes progress.

  James Cook

  Progress

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• We still have gaps that are rooted in gender inequality. Certainly we have discrimination against the LGBT community.

  Hillary Clinton

  Lgbt Community, Gaps, Discrimination

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• No sustainable development, environmental harmony or lasting security will happen if we are unable to eradicate hunger and extreme inequality

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

  Environmental, Development, Hunger

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• ...works of piety and charity... are necessary in this present life for as long as inequality prevails. Their workings here would not be required were it not for the superabundant numbers of the poor, the needy, and the sick... As long as this inequity rages in the world, these good works will be necessary and valuable to anyone practicing them and they shall yield the reward of an everlasting inheritance to the man of good heart and concerned will.

  John Cassian

  Christian, Heart, Men

  "Conferences".

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• Inequality is a fact. Equality is a value.

  Mason Cooley

  Equality, Facts, Values

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• Inequalities of Fate very curious. Should like, on this account, to believe in Reincarnation.

  E. M. Delafield

  Believe, Fate, Immortality

  E. M. Delafield (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Delafield (Illustrated)”, p.2419, Delphi Classics

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• We're living through an era of higher income inequality than the country has experienced since before the Great Depression. Meanwhile, most people are running in place, and those in the bottom quintile of the economy are being swept backward year in and year out. A worker with a high school education today is likely to earn less in real terms than did their parents and grandparents in the early 1970s. Not coincidentally, while overall life expectancy is increasing in America, for those with low levels of education it's actually declining.

  Sasha Abramsky

  Running, Country, Real

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.

  Paul Wellstone

  Giving, Full Potential, Excess

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• If we save the planet and have a society of inequality, we wouldn't have saved much.

  James H. Cone

  Environmental, Planets, Save The Planet

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• When we are honest, we admit how agreeable it can feel to be singled out for favored treatment.  The biggest barrier to equality for all is that inequality for some feels good.

  Philip Gulley

  Feel Good, Honest, Treatment

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• The only living socities are those which are animated by inequality and injustice.

  Paul Claudel

  Injustice, Animated

  "Conversations dans le Loir-et-Cher". Book by Paul Claudel, p. 22; translation from The Independent, February 6, 2001, 1984.

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• From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and that the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different but are in conflict with each other; and we can achieve either one or the other, but not both at the same time.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Equality, Law, People

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek. Part I: "The Value of Freedom". Chapter 6: "Equality, Value and Merit", 1960.

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• we should reject the attempt to divert the national conversation away from soaring inequality toward the alleged moral failings of those Americans being left behind. Traditional values aren't as crucial as social conservatives would have you believe — and, in any case, the social changes taking place in America's working class are overwhelmingly the consequence of sharply rising inequality, not its cause.

  Paul Krugman

  Believe, Class, America

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• Unequal Democracy is the sort of book to which every political scientist should aspire--it is methodologically rigorous, conceptually serious, and above all, it addresses urgent concerns of our fellow citizens. As Bartels shows, much of what we think we know about the politics of economic inequality is dead wrong. Bartels's perplexing and often unexpected discoveries should help refocus the gathering public debate about inequality and what to do about it.

  Robert D. Putnam

  Book, Thinking, Economic Inequality

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• The guarantee of equal protection cannot mean one thing when applied to one individual and something else when applied to a person of another color. If both are not accorded the same protection, then it is not equal.

  Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

  Mean, Equality, Color

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• Women can't wait for equal pay. And I won't stop fighting to address this inequality.

  Barack Obama

  Fighting, Equal Pay, Feminist

  "28 Famous Men Who Prove You Don’t Need To Be A Woman To Be A Feminist" By Alanna Vagianos, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 25, 2014.

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• Heroism is endurance for one moment more.

  George F. Kennan

  Hero, Marine, Endurance

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• Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.

  Abdul Kalam

  Iron, Differences, Building

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• If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

  Jane Austen

  Memories, Past, Thinking

  Jane Austen (2013). “Mansfield Park”, p.172, Lulu Press, Inc

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• While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the survival of the fittest in every department. We accept and welcome, therefore, as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment, the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few, and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Science, Race, Hands

  1889 'The Gospel of Wealth', in the North American Review, Jun.

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• A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life.

  G. H. Hardy

  Life, Science, Distribution Of Wealth

  A Mathematician's Apology ch. 21 (1940)

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• The argument advanced by the supporters of the theory of hereditary transmission does not furnish a satisfactory explanation of the cause of the inequalities and diversities of the universe.

  Swami Abhedananda

  Science, Diversity, Doe

  Swami Abhedananda (2005). “Vedanta Philosophy”, p.34, 1st World Publishing

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• The breaking up of the terrestrial globe, this it is we witness. It doubtless began a long time ago, and the brevity of human life enables us to contemplate it without dismay. It is not only in the great mountain ranges that the traces of this process are found. Great segments of the earth's crust have sunk hundreds, in some cases, even thousands, of feet deep, and not the slightest inequality of the surface remains to indicate the fracture; the different nature of the rocks and the discoveries made in mining alone reveal its presence. Time has levelled all.

  Eduard Suess

  Life, Science, Mountain Ranges

  Eduard Suess (1904). “The Face of the Earth: (Das Antlitz Der Erde)”

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