Todd Young Quotes

Sex and race, because they are easy, visible differences, have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups, and into the cheap labor on which this system still depends.

There is here, as in all countries, advantages and disadvantages.

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

As long as inheritance lasts, there will be hereditary economic inequality—not the natural inequality of individuals, but the artificial inequality of classes—which will necessarily continue to be expressed in hereditary inequality of the development and cultivation of intelligence and will remain the source and sanction of all political and social inequality.

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

The world is not equal, unfortunately.

Disparity is Australia's worst social problem. Thousands of lives are slowly being crushed, while billions are wasted on thousands of little initiatives trying to 'close the gap.'

Nobody really believes in equality anyway.

Greater inequality in Europe has made people less happy.

Fighting disparities is very significant.

I don't think we live in a particularly equal society.

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesn't work on this mirror principle, you don't have an exact replica on the left of what you have on the right. It just doesn't work that way.

When inequality gets too extreme, then it becomes useless for growth, and it can even become bad because it tends to lead to high perpetuation of inequality over time and low mobility.

You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.

Massive inequality, we have learned, isn't the best way to run an economy after all. And when you think about it, it's also profoundly ugly.

It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.

In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence.

There's prejudice and poverty in Hungary as there is in every country.

If everybody lives in the same way, there's something almost narcotizing about it, but the true misery of economic class difference is knowing that you can't have what somebody else does.

I cannot believe there is caste system in society; I cannot believe people are judged on the basis of their prosperity.

To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, that concerns me.