Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old inequality quotes, inequality sayings, and inequality proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Inequality and hierarchy are natural, but that doesn't mean they are right, that doesn't mean there is isn't a productive tension between those forces and the forces of equality.Chris Hayes
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If you're perpetuating discrimination, you're perpetuating inequality. Ellen Page
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Inequality is bad for everyone, not just the middle class and the poor.Robert Reich
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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.Aristotle
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A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.Thomas Carlyle
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Inequalities of Fate very curious. Should like, on this account, to believe in Reincarnation. E. M. Delafield
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The inequality between the world's individuals is staggering.Zygmunt Bauman
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.Voltaire
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You need to look at inequality as a typical condition of modern society.Rem Koolhaas
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Inequality is not just an issue between individuals, between classes, between regions. It's between urban and rural.Michael Ignatieff
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Inequality promotes progress.James Cook
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Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.Plato
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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.Adam Hochschild
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Rising inequality isn't about who has the knowledge; it's about who has the power.Paul Krugman
A certain inequality in regard to property still exists in a socialist society. But in a socialist society there is no unemployment, no exploitation, no oppression of nationalities.Joseph Stalin
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Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.Martin Luther King, Jr.
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We justify the inequalities by saying some people are just better and smarter than others and the strong should survive and the poor can die off.Frans De Waal
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Massive inequality, we have learned, isn't the best way to run an economy after all. And when you think about it, it's also profoundly ugly.Thomas Frank
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Inequality is a terrible waste of time, a waste of people's resources.Jeremy Corbyn
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Poverty and wealth inequality are a form of instability into the future.Tavis Smiley
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The inequality of income and fortunes is essential in capitalism.Ludwig Von Mises
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Gender inequality is not one problem, it's a collection of problems.Amartya Sen
Everyone has an equal right to inequality.John Ralston Saul
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Rising inequality is a cultural and economic cancer on a lot of different levels.Kevin Drum
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You have to be interested in inequality. The issue of inequality and that of poverty are not separable.Amartya Sen
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Income inequality and wage stagnation finally took their place among the principal moral issues of our time.David Rolf
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The higher the coefficient of inequality (Gini coefficient) in a society, the worse things tend to be for those at the bottom.Catherine Wilson
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Inequality causes problems by creating fissures in societies, leaving those at the bottom feeling marginalized or disenfranchised.Nicholas Kristof
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Income inequality matters more on a day-to-day basis. Wealth matters more for political influence.Thomas Pogge
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Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the twentieth century as increasingly illegitimate.Michael Mandelbaum
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Inequality is the inevitable consequence of liberty.Salvador De Madariaga
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When inequality gets to an extreme, it is completely useless for growth.Thomas Piketty
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True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius; for inequality, not mediocrity, individual superiority, not standardization, is the measure of the progress of the world.Felix Emanuel Schelling
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Inequality is the cause of all local movements.Leonardo da Vinci
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There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.John F. Kennedy
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Education is not the only answer and it's certainly not the immediate solution. At best, it's a necessary, but not sufficient response to widening inequality.Robert Reich
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Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year.Polly Toynbee
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Inequality hardens society into a class system. Inequality divides us from one another. Inequality undermines democracy.George Packer
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Inequality is the root of social evil.Pope Francis
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Rising inequality is toxic to growth. High levels of inequality exclude people - both as innovators and customers - diminishing both innovation and demand.Nick Hanauer
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Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it seems hid, and hide the false seems true.William Shakespeare
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Voices previously drowned out...can have special meaning in the struggle to eradicate inequality.Allan Hutchinson
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The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.Mark Twain
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Though we travel in the same group, we are not therefore alike.Yoruba Proverb
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There is no equality in people's fortunes.Yoruba Proverb
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But while inequality is Heaven made, equality is the work of sage-man. Therefore, all his institutions and moral principles aim at eventual equality.Kang Youwei
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The regard that domestic bird enjoys is denied the vulture; the regard a slave receives is not the same as a freeborn enjoys.Yoruba Proverb
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A world without poverty / Cause with Nobility / Gender equality / Always a reality / Remove the ambiguity / Remains Clarity.K.V. Srikanth
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The fact of inequality generates the competition that determines status and standing and prestige and therefore success and failure in life. James K. Galbraith
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The constitution does not provide for first and second-class citizens.Wendell Willkie
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Make all men equal today, and God has so created them that they shall all be unequal tomorrow.Anthony Trollope
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Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.Honoré de Balzac
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When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.W.S Gilbert
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.Thomas Jefferson
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There is so much wealth and so much misery at the same time, that it seems incredible that people can endure such class difference, and accept such a form of hunger while on the other hand, the millionaires throw away millions on stupidities.Frida Kahlo
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I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States senator.Mary Harris Jones
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The causes which destroyed the ancient republics were numerous; but in Rome, one principal cause was the vast inequality of fortunes.Noah Webster
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An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.Plutarch
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The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health, and social mobility are all threatened.Helene D. Gayle
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As long as poverty, injustice, and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.Nelson Mandela
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We're all burdened by our history of racial inequality. It's created a kind of smog that we all breathe in, and it has prevented us from being healthy.Bryan Stevenson
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Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.William Dean Howells
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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.Adam Smith
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A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much and so many have so little.Bernie Sanders
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Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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People differ in capacity, skill, health, strength; and unequal fortune is a necessary result of unequal condition. Such inequality is far from being disadvantageous either to individuals or to the community.Popo Leo XVIII
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Inequality and hierarchy are natural, but that doesn't mean they are right, that doesn't mean there isn't a productive tension between those forces and the forces of equality.Chris Hayes