Quotes about Inequality
The anger from Occupy Wall Street is coming from this simple fact: America no longer seems to be a place where you can work your way up, from rags to riches, from lower class to middle class to upper class.
- Meghan McCain
Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding.
- Samuel Johnson
A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.
- Victor Hugo
You can never have 'equality' between two things that are not equal by definition. And so, for example, you can have equality among 'people', but not between 'men' and 'women'.
- Anthony Browne
Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is apt rather to be despised by it.
- Teresa of Avila
It is a sin directly against one's neighbour, since one man cannot over-abound in external riches, without another man lacking them.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
[ Hollywood] is a patriarchy, headed by men and built for men.
- Ava DuVernay
Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor.
- George Bernard Shaw
If all men were rich, all men would be poor.
- Mark Twain
As long as there is poverty in this world, no man can be totally rich even if he has a billion dollars.
- Martin Luther
You hit the wall almost right when you get up to the top. If there's a female writer being suggested to do a rewrite on a script, it's always the big boys going, "Mm, let's go with [a man]..."
- Jennifer Aniston
Lack of money is the root of of all evil.
- George Bernard Shaw