Inequality Quotes

The main force pushing toward reduction in inequality has always been the diffusion of knowledge and the diffusion of education.

~ Thomas Piketty

I'm not suggesting that social scientists stop teaching and investigating classic topics like monopoly power, racial profiling and health inequality. But everyone knows that monopoly power is bad for markets, that people are racially biased and that illness is unequally distributed by social class.

~ Nicholas A. Christakis

Talking about income inequality, even if you're not on the Forbes 400 list, can make us feel uncomfortable. It feels less positive, less optimistic, to talk about how the pie is sliced than to think about how to make the pie bigger.

~ Chrystia Freeland

We don't have a divine right to success. So I agree with a lot of politicians out there when they say, 'We've got serious issues.' We do: immigration, infrastructure. I think income inequality's one of them.

~ Jamie Dimon

You can't solve a problem as complex as inequality in one legal clause.

~ Theresa May