437 Quotes About Inequality

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, she is your vilest oppressor—and once her ears close to your plights you are well and truly screwed.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can turn it into a fact.

For women as a class, the ability to transform sexual practice, to achieve respect from men as equal human beings and thus break out of their subordinate status, is undermined by the ability of men to escape from the responsibility of acknowledging women's equality. Men's use of women in prostitution stands directly in the way of women's efforts to improve their status.

Las grandes desigualdades de nuestro siglo son las que separan a quienes saben y tienen acceso educativo a las fuentes el conocimiento de quienes necesitan la tutela informativa de los demás toda la vida

It’s ridiculous – a girl steps out, goes dancing, gets her hair cut, decides to spend the summer in Italy and it’s a scandal. A chap does it and no one bats an eyelid.

The quest to remove all inequality is the deadening hand of socialism and results in social stagnation.

True fasting is not just depriving ourselves of privilege but als osharing sacrificially tob ring an end to the cycles of inequality, an end to creation’s groaning and the groaning of hungry bellies.

...we should in the interests of accuracy refer not to 'democratic free market capitalism' but to 'plutocratic impunity capitalism'.

It occurred to me that as a man I could do anything, everything I wanted.