Quotations about

Inequality

If I were a Brazilian without land or money or the means to feed my children, I would be burning the rain forest, too.

—Sting

We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.

—Louis D. Brandeis

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

—Bill Vaughan

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