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  • To understand the Left, one must understand that in its view the greatest evil is material inequality. The Left is more troubled by economic inequality than by evil as humanity has generally understood the term. -- Dennis Prager
  • The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future for their children faces assault from just about every direction. That great enemy of democratic capitalism, economic inequality, is real and growing. -- Jon Meacham
  • It has been convincingly demonstrated that countries where there are high rates of poverty, or high rates of economic inequality, are the countries with the highest rates of religious beliefs. -- Richard Dawkins
  • Depression is a serious problem, but drugs are not the answer. In the long run, psychotherapy is both cheaper and more effective, even for very serious levels of depression. Physical exercise and self-help books based on CBT can also be useful, either alone or in combination with therapy. Reducing social and economic inequality would also reduce the incidence of depression. -- Irving Kirsch
  • The devastation of neoliberalism is so multi-fold, whether it's violence against women or desperate economic inequality or the destruction of the planet. -- Eve Ensler
  • There is a correlation between economic inequality and personal violence. The explanation for the correlation isn't completely clear; there are a number of possibilities. -- Steven Pinker
  • To deal with radicalism and extremism, we need to deal with economic inequality. This is what I learned from my experience in Solo and then in Jakarta. -- Joko Widodo
  • The concern that I have is that, as wealth continues to concentrate in the hands of a few, economic inequality grows, and power also becomes more unequal. -- Jane Mayer
  • The benefits of feminism have been unequally distributed, because the move toward gender equality and gender neutrality has been countered to a large extent by the increase in economic inequality. -- Stephanie Coontz
  • A two-parent family based on love and commitment can be a wonderful thing, but historically speaking the "two-parent paradigm" has left an extraordinary amount of room for economic inequality, violence and male dominance. -- Stephanie Coontz
  • Rejecting the notion that democracy and markets are the same, young people are calling for an end to the poverty, grotesque levels of economic inequality, the suppression of dissent and the permanent war state. -- Henry Giroux
  • Grave security concerns can arise as a result of demographic trends, chronic poverty, economic inequality, environmental degradation, pandemic diseases, organized crime, repressive governance and other developments no state can control alone. Arms can't address such concerns. -- Ban Ki-moon
  • Solving the population problem is not going to solve the problems of racism... of sexism... of religious intolerance... of war... of gross economic inequality But if you don't solve the population problem, you're not going to solve any of those problems. Whatever problem you're interested in, you're not going to solve it unless you also solve the population problem. Whatever your cause, it's a lost cause without population control. -- Paul R. Ehrlich
  • Thievery is what unregulated capitalism is all about. -- Robert Sherrill
  • Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
  • You may be sure that in this new international system, the American citizen will count for precious little. -- Pat Buchanan
  • We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure. -- Cesar Chavez
  • Every dollar that the boss did not work for, one of us worked for a dollar and didn't get it. -- William C. Dudley
  • I will always have enough money to last the rest of my life...as long as I don't buy anything. -- Ed Asner
  • I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process. -- Benjamin Harrison
  • A Society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure and to another all the burdens of work condemns both classes to spiritual sterility. -- Lewis Mumford
  • Let us remember well, however, that whenever food is thrown out it is as if it were stolen from the table of the poor, from the hungry! -- Pope Francis
  • The balancing of the budget will not in itself place a teaspoonful of milk in a hungry baby's stomach, or remove the rags from its mother's back. -- John L. Lewis
  • The ultimate goal of those who blame workers for Wall Street's economic crisis is to unravel the fabric of our common life in pursuit of greed and power. -- Richard Trumka
  • One of the saddest aspects for me about filming in South Africa was that the real inequalities are still very much in place - and those are economic inequalities. -- Naomie Harris
  • If we will not endure a king as a political power, we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and sale of any of the necessities of life. -- John Sherman
  • People who have to fight for their living and are not afraid to die for it are higher persons than those who, stationed high, are too fat to dare to die. -- Laozi
  • As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce. -- Adam Smith
  • I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator. -- Mother Jones
  • Everyone has a right to a job, everyone has a right to an education, everyone has a right to health care, everyone has a right to retirement security, everyone has a right to housing, and everyone has a right to peace. -- Dennis Kucinich
  • God, how patient are Thy poor! These corporations and masters of manipulation in finance heaping up great fortunes by a system of legalized extortion, and then exacting from the contributors-to whom a little means so much-a double share to guard the treasure! -- Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
  • The essential point here is that all people with small, insecure incomes are in the same boat and ought to be fighting on the same side. Probably we could do with a little less talk about' capitalist' and 'proletarian' and a little more about the robbers and the robbed. -- George Orwell
  • In our society it is murder, psychologically, to deprive a man of a job or an income. You are in substance saying to that man that he has no right to exist. You are in a real way depriving him of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, denying in his case the very creed of his society. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Strong, responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided. The parties to the labor contract must be nearly equal in strength if justice is to be worked out, and this means that the workers must be organized and that their organizations must be recognized by employers as a condition precedent to industrial peace. -- Louis D. Brandeis
  • Does inequality in the distribution of income increase or decrease in the course of a country's economic growth? -- Simon Kuznets
  • Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities. -- Pope Francis
  • The weak economy, widening income inequality, gridlock in Congress and a presidential election: Those were perhaps the dominant economic and political themes of 2012. -- Steven Rattner
  • Economic inequality is less troubling if you live in a country where any child, no matter how humble his or her origins, can grow up to be president. -- Timothy Noah
  • The best solution to income inequality is providing a high-quality education for everybody. In our highly technological, globalized economy, people without education will not be able to improve their economic situation. -- Ben Bernanke
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  • The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems. -- Eric Alterman
  • American social arrangements, economic arrangements, the degree of inequality in American life, the relatively small role played by the government in American public life and so forth, compares to exactly the opposite conditions in most of the European societies. -- Tony Judt
  • The major economic policy challenges facing the nation today - pick your favorites among the usual suspects of low public and household savings, concerns about educational quality and achievement, high and rising income inequality, the large imbalances between our social insurance commitments and resources - are not about monetary policy. -- Timothy Geithner
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  • Global poverty is a complex web of interlinked problems. There is no one 'silver bullet' that will solve global inequality. Multiple contributing factors must be tackled in parallel. Yes, education alone is unlikely to lead to employment without economic reform to address the demand side in much of the developing world. -- Adam Braun
  • Decreasing economic growth and increasing inequality leads to increased uncertainty. -- Nicholas Bloom
  • Rising inequality is a cultural and economic cancer on a lot of different levels. -- Kevin Drum
  • We've seen the weakest economic recovery since World War II, and massive levels of inequality and debt. -- Kshama Sawant
  • If we don't rebuild that connection with people we will really find even bigger gaps, because our gap on inequality is not just economic. -- Hillary Clinton
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