Quotes about Inequality
Some of them had to have Bible verses read to them because they could not decipher print themselves, so they had sharpened the skills of the illiterate: perfect memory, photographic minds, keen senses of smell and hearing.
— Toni Morrison
Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.
— George Bernard Shaw
Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
— Francois Rabelais
After all a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him.
— Jack Kerouac
Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
— Catherine of Siena
The Reformation has been called in a biting epigram "a rising of the rich against the poor."
— Hilaire Belloc
Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
I sometimes think that rich men belong to another nationality entirely, no matter what their actual nationality happens to be. The nationality of the rich.
— William Saroyan
You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
— George Eliot
Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
— Oscar Wilde
Fex urbis, lex orbis (The dregs of the city, the law of the earth), from Les Miserables, attributed to St. Jerome
— Victor Hugo
He visited the poor so long as he had any money; when he no longer had any, he visited the rich.
— Victor Hugo