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...

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.

My Lady, you certainly tell me about wonderful constancy, strength and virtue and firmness of women, so can one say the same thing about men? (…)Response [by Lady Rectitude]: “Fair sweet friend, have you not...

Power is a fickle mistress, easy to seduce, but even easier to lose. That’s how it works. One moment she is your closest confidant, whispering the secrets of the universe into your ear; the next,...

There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.

Surely you can see the failings of the system. Inequality, injustice, unfairness, and exploitation–

I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men...

By God, if women had written stories,As clerks had within here oratories,They would have written of men more wickednessThan all the mark of Adam may redress.

I believe that if you want to fight inequality you have to do it starting at infancy.

Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometric progression as they rise

Bei den Hochgestellten gilt das Reden vom Essen als niedrig. Das kommt: sie haben schon gegessen.

When we combine very real workplace inequalities with these romantic opt-out stories, the idea that “having it all” is a laughable goal becomes enshrined as immutable truth. And when we portray opting out as a...

The worst form of inequality, is the inequality of ideals A people united by the same ideal, irrespective of religion, social status, race, political preference or sexual, would have the strength to fight for a...

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated — and turned out to grass.

Americans were happy to celebrate their super-rich and, at least sometimes, worry about their poor. But putting those two conversations together and talking about economic inequality was pretty much taboo.

[J]ust the sight of this book, even though it was of no authority, made me wonder how it happened that so many different men – and learned men among them – have been and are...

The most convincing and enduring foe of the global financial economy ultimately is the global financial economy itself. – Ulrich Beck

Economics has made good on its promise to deliver prosperity and democratic freedom to much of the world, but in doing away with the age-old problems of humanity, it has opened up a crisis of...

Justice requires not only the ceasing and desisting of injustice but also requires either punishment or reparation for injuries and damages inflicted for prior wrongdoing. The essence of justice is the redistribution of gains earned...

Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against.

The seeming imperfections of Earth, the hazards and inequalities of life, the cruelty, harshness and apparent indifference to suffering and affliction are not what they seem; as it is Earth is perfect for its purpose....

The great hatred of capitalism in the hearts of the oppressed, ancient and modern, I think, stems not merely from the ensuing vast inequality in wealth, and the often unfair and arbitrary nature of who...

I think it’s wrong that only one percent of the people should own ninety percent of the country.

The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house

If people lived to be a thousand years old, there’d be extreme inequality, based not on class like now, but on genetics. Think how far behind unmotivated and lazy people lag now after only 65...

… in practice the standard for what constitutes rape is set not at the level of women’s experience of violation but just above the level of coercion acceptable to men.

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls — even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls — without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.”(America’s Medieval Women, Harper’s Magazine, August 1938)

However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will...

What tale do you like best to hear?’ ‘Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme – courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe – marriage.

Those who plead their cause in the absence of an opponent can invent to their heart’s content, can pontificate without taking into account the opposite point of view and keep the best arguments for themselves,...

Rich people read their bills. Poor people dread theirs.

There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.

It might be depressing, but it’s also the truth that no one has the power, the money, or the resources to save everyone on the planet from going hungry, living in poverty or allowed basic...

I’m convinced that not all units of time are equal.

Why we are hanging around with inequality concept every day, it is like comparing water with the bread.

I don’t know about you, but I only have one life, and I don’t want to spend it in a sewer of injustice.

There is also the basic inequality of being born either with a natural talent or without one. Clever or stupid. No matter how much you try to argue against it, Dora, we are not born...

What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and colour and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove...

So long as tyranny exists, in whatever form, man’s deepest aspiration must resist it as inevitably as man must breathe.

America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, ‘It ain’t no disgrace to be poor,...

Root cause of inequality is the mass scale digital disruption advantage as means of wealth creation is concentrated.

Many provisions of the law infringe on constitutional rights and freedoms of individuals and citizens, establish inequality between different confessions and violate Russia’s international obligations.

L’editore mandò cento copie del volume, per tutto compenso dell’opera: il valore non superava quello dell’olio e del vino rubati in cantina; e il grosso pacco piombò in casa come un bolide sconquassatore. La madre...

An unbroken horse erects his mane, paws the ground and starts back impetuously at the sight of the bridle; while one which is properly trained suffers patiently even whip and spur: so savage man will...

The protesters have called into question whether there is a real democracy. Real democracy is more than the right to vote once every two or four years. The choices have to be meaningful. But increasingly,...

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Clearly it’s not easy for women in modern society, no matter where they live. We still have to go the extra mile to prove that we are equal to men. we have to work longer...

Morals do exist outside of organized religion, and the ‘morality’ taught by many of these archaic systems is often outdated, sexist, racist, and teaches intolerance and inequality. When a parent forces a child into a...

Socialism and Communism have failed, but now Capitalism is failing us.

Sexism is not confined by border, race, class, sexuality or gender and, to my mind (and Margo Kingston’s in Chapter 6), it is inextricably bound up with a mindset of entitlement that also afflicts our...