Samuel Johnson Quotes

The want of education and moral training is the only real barrier that exists between the different classes of men.

It will never be possible to eliminate the fact that human beings have different levels of knowledge and consciousness

He whose belly is full believes not him whose is empty.

Poor children fare worse than rich children on just about everything that social scientists measure.

Surely there is something unlovely, to modern as against medieval minds, about marked inequality of either kind income or power.

Such is the boasted chivalry of the Land of Freedom, which has left its women to strive against tradition, prejudice, conservatism, self-interest, political power and in addition all the forces of corruption combined, to secure the privilege which was conferred upon vast numbers of men who never even demanded it and many of whom knew nothing of its significance after it was granted.

The fundamental error of Europe has been to confine the light of knowledge to the wealthy and great, while the humble and the depressed have been as sedulously excluded from its participation as the wretched criminal, immured in a dungeon, is from the light of Heaven.

Triumphant capitalism has unleashed a powerful drive toward inequality, not improvement, in the social sphere.

Women to govern men, slaves freemen, are much in the same degree; all being total violations and perversions of the laws of nature and nations.

The inequality that exists today, … derives less from the unequal availability of opportunity than from the unequal ability to exploit opportunity …

I know what the teachers got. I know what the politicians got. But I don’t know what the kids got/

Freedom breeds inequality.

I don't believe that killing the French model in order to become the U.K. or the United States overnight is the solution. You have a big debate on inequality there, and for our society, a lot of inequality would not be bearable.

We see that in the top problems in the world between haves and have-nots, generally we find that the root cause is education.

For too many, the shot for a brighter future is simply out of reach.

Clearly, there are persistent differences in our country.

Our social fabric is sundered. GoFundMe and the other crowdfunding sites that have proliferated since 2010 are an example of what has sprung up in its place, what I have called America's dystopian social net. That is, we now require private solutions to what are public problems.

In college, when I was kind of confronted with facts and figures about inequality in America, a big impulse I had was to go hang out with homeless people around my university and hear them out and understand their situation from their perspective.

Racism exists, but what I want to do is start a dialogue.

It's true that globalization, with all its fantastic improvements in the world and the technological progress linked to it, has increased inequality at country level, especially inside countries. And there are people that were left behind - people, sectors, regions - that has created a sense of frustration in the rust belts of the world.

I left college with a deep sense that I needed to understand poverty more.

The idea of a world where all people are alike - in wealth or in anything else - is a fantasy for the stupid.

The disparity between the haves and have-nots was always blatantly obvious to me, and it's that exact gap that drove me to start writing and pick up a pen. I wanted to explain and understand the world around me because it was easy to see it was corrupted.

It's really obvious that we have very serious inequality in this country across many different spectrums. Yes, we can talk about the form of protest or the way it's done or this or that. But it's still not really the conversation that I think we desperately need to have more of in this country.

The world is hugely unequal.