Quotes about Inequality

The sole equality on earth is death.

The poor who commit murder, rape and robbery are not only not starving, they have far more material things than the word 'poverty' suggests.

Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.

It has been said that in Jesus' character no strong points were obvious because there were no weak ones. Strong points necessarily presuppose weak ones, but no weaknesses can be alleged of Him. In the best of men there is obvious inconsistency and inequality, and since the tallest bodies cast the longest shadows, the greater the man, the more glaring his faults are likely to be. With Christ it was far otherwise. He was without flaw or contradiction.

In this world, people are violent toward people that they feel are conceptualized as smaller than them. It's an impulse that we have.

A person's zip code shouldn't decide their destiny.

Does it follow, then, that progressives and socialists are entirely wrong when they say that there are rich people in the top 1 percent who are greedy selfish leeches, who don't deserve their money and who have gotten it by contributing little or nothing to society? Actually, no! Such people do exist, and they can be found among the ranks of the progressives and socialists themselves. Let's consider a few notorious examples.

In Obama's America, the wealth creators are greedy, selfish, and materialistic while the wealth stealers are the most morally wonderful people in the country.

Summing up, we can see that the progressive pitches about greed, selfishness, and inequality are basically diversions. They seek to deflect us away from the core issue, which is that the creators of the wealth are the ones who deserve the wealth they have created. To put it in primitive terms, the farmer who grew the crops gets to keep the crops and the hunters who killed the deer get to eat the deer.

For most Democrats, the topic is both touchy and distasteful. It's one thing to rob from the rich but quite another to rob from the poorest of the poor. Some of the Democratic primary support for Bernie Sanders was undoubtedly due to Democrats' distaste over the financial shenanigans of the Clintons. Probably these Democrats considered the Clintons to be unduly grasping and opportunistic, an embarrassment to the great traditions of the Democratic Party.

Inequality of outcomes is not seen as a necessary evil that government should seek to remedy; rather, the government itself exists to guard citizens' right to accumulate unequal fortunes and property.

Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance