Inequality Quotes

The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to ma...

[W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insistin...

Had he lived some centuries ago, in the brightly coloured civilizations of the past, he would have h...

I don't want them to think that we dress like savages,' she replied, with a scorn that Pocahontas mi...

So long as tyranny exists, in whatever form, man's deepest aspiration must resist it as inevitably a...

A thorough investigation would prove that nine crimes out of ten could be traced, directly or indire...

I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is...

Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one b...

I wonder why it is that the countries with the most nobles also have the most misery?

I wonder why it is that the countries with the most nobles also have the most misery?

I wonder why it is that the countries with the most nobles also have the most misery?

I wonder why it is that the countries with the most nobles also have the most misery?

The people come to understand that wealth is not the fruit of labour but the result of organised, pr...

If human equality is to be for ever averted — if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their...

It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possession...

Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretend...

The issue of false consciousness is a genuinely difficult problem that has no definite solution. We ...

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and i...

I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstan...

An unbroken horse erects his mane, paws the ground and starts back impetuously at the sight of the b...

I know that [civilized men] do nothing but boast incessantly of the peace and repose they enjoy in t...

From this moment there would be no question of virtue or morality; for despotism cui ex honesto null...

The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said "This is mine," and found people naïve eno...

You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone f...

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some m...

...we so resented that asshole up there talking talking talking taking up the entire assembly expect...

If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?

Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordina...

I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade ...

Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and ro...

Cripples are not the stuff of romance. Only Lord Byron, dragging his club foot, springs to mind as a...

You know how the story ends. He escaped and went on to become the greatest chief Suntown ever had. H...

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me. I mean, ther...

By now, they rank people by income level or wages roughly the same: The bottom seventy per cent or s...

So the swallow flew over the great city, and saw the rich making merry in their beautiful houses, wh...

Now, it’s true that some of the protesters are oddly dressed or have silly-sounding slogans, which i...

Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resu...

Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resu...

Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resu...

Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resu...

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the po...

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls — even satin-lined, diamond-s...

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated — and turned out to grass.

His August Majesty chided the bureaucrats for failing to understand a simple principle: the principl...

The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but the stepping-stone to others, ...

Mistresses, have you ever noticed that when we disagree with a male – I hesitate to say ‘man’ – or f...

Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solv...

My girlfriends and I talk a lot about feminism and the inequality between the way men and women are ...

You should not have too many people waiting on you, you should have to do most things for yourself. ...

Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milde...

It was evidently quite obvious to a powerful intellect like his that the one essential condition for...

The main force pushing toward reduction in inequality has always been the diffusion of knowledge and...

Our democratic societies rest on a meritocratic worldview, or at any rate a meritocratic hope, by wh...

You know and we know, as practical men that the question of justice arises only between parties equa...

The great hatred of capitalism in the hearts of the oppressed, ancient and modern, I think, stems no...

I am he who cometh out of the depths. My lords, you are great and rich. There lies your danger. You ...

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of...

Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.

There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re wi...

Some of us are happy with our African hair, thank you very much. I don't want some poor Indian girl'...

Occupying the bottom end of the inequality ladder, and becoming a 'collateral victim' of a human act...

MAGISTRATEDon't men grow old?LYSISTRATANot like women. When a man comes homeThough he's grey as grie...

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house

Clearly it's not easy for women in modern society, no matter where they live. We still have to go th...

Global inequality means that while the wealthy have too few needs, the needy have too little wealth....

And I did work out something: that the rich of the earth indeed create misery, but they cannot bear ...

Women are also property in our bible; adultery is a property crime in the Old Testament, not a sex c...

What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same the...

John dear!" said I in the gentlest voice, "the key is down by the front steps, under a plantain leaf...