'Egalitarians' who complain about inequality view the wealth of the wealthiest as bad in itself: it disfigures society. They would enact a wealth tax to extirpate the offending wealth.
Edmund Phelps
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Inequality in the developed world fell for most of the 20th century; we can make it fall for most of the 21st century, too. But it won't happen without sustained pressure on politicians from electorates.
John Lanchester
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People on left have to better understand what are the benefits of inequality, and people on right have to understand better what the dangers are... It has to become properly hardwired into the American democratic debate in a way that it hasn't really been.
Angus Deaton
PeopleBetterAmericanInequality
Everyone has an equal right to inequality.
John Ralston Saul
InequalityRightEqualEveryone
I feel disheartened when I see stereotypes, because it's untrue and unfair. It just raises the level of inequality.
Sonoya Mizuno
FeelInequalityStereotypesUnfair
I'm all for philosophical debates about race, but if you look at history, you see that the status quo has power when it's unchallenged. So these conversations about inequality are crucial.
Ruth Negga
PowerHistoryYouLookInequality
Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the twentieth century as increasingly illegitimate.
Michael Mandelbaum
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Some people say we have this inequality because some people have been contributing much more to our society, and so it's fair that they get more. But then you look at the people who are at the top, and you realize they're not the people who have transformed our economy, our society.
Joseph Stiglitz
PeopleSocietyYouLookInequality
There's a lot of freedom to do anything you want in Mexico. It's just that that freedom belongs to a few. It's a huge country with a big contrast. There is this big inequality, so those like us that have the chance to do things, we know we are very lucky.
Diego Luna
FreedomChanceYouInequalityKnow
Income inequality is one thing, but a permanent division into the haves and have-nots is an entirely different thing - and much less acceptable.
Chrystia Freeland
InequalityDivisionPermanentIncome
The daily deluge of tales of lechery and trauma holds a hidden but crucial truism: sexual harassment routinely feeds on income inequality. After all, it's much harder to exploit an equal.
Alissa Quart
DailyInequalityHiddenTraumaEqual
The importance of tackling inequality in Africa cannot be overstated.
Winnie Byanyima
InequalityAfricaCannotImportance
Fragility, violence, and conflict are complex. Fragility is influenced by a wide set of factors, many of which are deeply entrenched, such as high social and income inequality. The lines between criminal, inter-communal, and politically motivated violence are often blurred.
Peter Maurer
ConflictViolenceInequalityHigh
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
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Massive inequality, we have learned, isn't the best way to run an economy after all. And when you think about it, it's also profoundly ugly.
Thomas Frank
BestUglyThinkYouInequalityRun
Since I became First Minister, I have made clear my priority to alleviate poverty and tackle inequality in Scotland. Ensuring that everyone can do better in life will not only make Scotland fairer, but it will also make it a more prosperous place.
Nicola Sturgeon
LifeBetterPovertyInequalityPlace
There is greater income inequality in the United States than in any other industrialized country. Yes, the debt is a problem that must be dealt with. To me, however, the disappearing middle class is even worse - bad for our economy and really bad for our democracy.
Jan Schakowsky
MeDemocracyProblemBadInequality
The idea of solving as huge and long-term a problem as inequality - which, for my money, is the biggest single problem we have here at home - just never gets serious concern from both sides.
George Packer
HomeMoneyProblemInequalityNever
There is a huge number of people outside our borders who would love to come here. In fact, many of them come here, get well educated, and then are required to leave... This is a factor in income inequality.
Alan Greenspan
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Most of the time in America, we're surrounded by oppressive inequality such that the wealthiest 1 percent collectively own substantially more than the bottom 90 percent. One escape from that is America's wild places.
Nicholas Kristof
TimeAmericaInequalityEscapeWild
I have always had an extreme sensitivity to inequality.
Agnes Gund
InequalityAlwaysExtremeSensitivity
The inequality between CEO compensation and the compensation received by workers and stockholders has grown to such an extent that it endangers our economy and and our society.
Danny K. Davis
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Income inequality is worse in towns run by Democrat mayors than in towns run by Republican mayors.
Rand Paul
InequalityRunRepublicanDemocrat
I know a lot of the work that paved the way for women happened before I was around... I was never that feminist girl demanding equality, but maybe that's because I've never really faced inequality.
Kaley Cuoco
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