Quotes by Inequality When inequality gets to an extreme, it is completely useless for growth. Thomas Piketty inequality growth useless It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence. Voltaire dependence inequality real Love is based on inequality as friendship is on equality. William Butler Yeats inequality love-is love The scale of global inequality is quite simply staggering. Winnie Byanyima staggering scales inequality Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it seems hid, and hide the false seems true. William Shakespeare inequality seems reason We have a reversal of a longstanding trend, from rising inequality across nations and constant or declining inequality within nations, to declining inequality across nations and rising inequality within them. Zygmunt Bauman inequality rising trends The inequality between the world's individuals is staggering. Zygmunt Bauman inequality individual world President Obama believes that income inequality is one of the most pressing matters facing the nation. If we are going to be a country that provides ladders of opportunity and believes in a thriving middle class, then we have to raise the minimum wage. Tom Perez nation inequality opportunity country We will be returning to historical levels of inequality. We'll view post-war America as a kind of strange interlude not to be repeated. It won't be the dreams that we all had that virtually all incomes go up in lockstep at three percent a year. It hurts to give that up. Tyler Cowen view dreams inequality strange Income inequality has gotten worse under President Barack Obama. Timothy Noah worse inequality income president The main force pushing toward reduction in inequality has always been the diffusion of knowledge and the diffusion of education. Thomas Piketty always inequality education knowledge When inequality gets too extreme, then it becomes useless for growth, and it can even become bad because it tends to lead to high perpetuation of inequality over time and low mobility. Thomas Piketty bad inequality growth time I worry about growing income inequality. But I worry even more that the discussion is too narrowly focused. I worry that our outrage at the top 1 percent is distracting us from the problem that we should really care about: how to create opportunities and ensure a reasonable standard of living for the bottom 20 percent. Sendhil Mullainathan inequality care problem worry Does inequality in the distribution of income increase or decrease in the course of a country's economic growth? Simon Kuznets inequality economic growth country I feel disheartened when I see stereotypes, because it's untrue and unfair. It just raises the level of inequality. Sonoya Mizuno stereotypes feel inequality unfair Americans swept away the instruments of English hereditary inequality - entails and titles of nobility - even before we had a constitution. Steven Weinberg english away inequality constitution Inequality was written into the creation of the American Republic when our Founding Fathers denied voting rights to women. Stephanie Coontz inequality women creation voting Feminism needs a political program because gender inequality has been fostered by political decisions. Stephanie Coontz decisions gender inequality political Inequality is a poison that is destroying livelihoods, stripping families of dignity, and splitting communities. Sharan Burrow inequality destroying dignity poison When minimum living wages, bargaining for fair wages, pensions, and job security are denied in too many countries, it is not rocket science to understand the drivers of inequality. Sharan Burrow job understand inequality science «1234567»
