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What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power. -- Henry George
Moving to a cooperatively organized enterprise is one of the best ways to really do something about unequal distribution of wealth. -- Richard D. Wolff
People complain of the unequal distribution of wealth [but it is a far greater] injustice that any one man should have the power to write so many brilliant essays... There is no one who writes like [Thomas Huxley]. -- Charles Darwin
In a condition of society and under an industrial organization which places labor completely at the mercy of capital, the accumulations of capital will necessarily be rapid, and an unequal distribution of wealth is at once to be observed. -- Leland Stanford
The rule of law does not do away with the unequal distribution of wealth and power, but reinforces that inequality with the authority of law. It allocates wealth and poverty in such calculated and indirect ways as to leave the victim bewildered. -- Howard Zinn
In financial terms, my sense is that the distribution of wealth, unequal as it is, is self-perpetuating, and, especially in a linked and accelerating world, the rich get ever more quickly richer while the poor get ever more speedily poorer. -- Pico Iyer

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