Quotes about Inequality

It is not that I believe that there are too many idiots in this world, just that lightning isn't distributed right.

The Republicans are wrong in thinking that the rich create jobs. In reality, many of the richest Americans have been investing in efficiency innovations rather than to create jobs. And the Democrats are wrong, because growth won't happen if they distribute the wealth of the wealthy to everyone else.

For me, being with Obama or having dinner with Bill Clinton... it's crazy. It's mind-blowing, because where I come from is just another world. We were just ignored by politicians - by America in general.

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

The differences in income between the poor world and the rich world are so great that people have to be interested.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Not all of those who cry 'The poor, the poor!' will enter the kingdom of heaven.

Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.

There are rich people everywhere, and yet they don't contribute to the growth of their countries.

People talk of life's storms as if they are universal experiences. But they're not. Some people hear thunder while others touch lightning.

the only thing above average is the cow-to-human ratio.

I read more of the prophets, these poets and sages who spoke all kinds of truth to power. Another of the ways they explained why they'd been taken into exile was because there was a widening gap between rich and poor in their society, and whenever that happens, the entire system is in danger of imploding. Again and again prophets like Amos announce that if more and more wealth ends up in fewer and fewer hands everybody will suffer. How had I missed this?