Angus Deaton Quotes

Most of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and have nots.

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Inequality doesn't create unhappiness.

Resentment — that feeling when the modern promise of equality collides with massive disparities of power, education, status and property ownership.

I have always had an extreme sensitivity to inequality.

Awkwardness comes from the realization that, when you look around the world, it's difficult to identify anyone who isn't either the victim or the beneficiary of injustice.

Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.

Our family were outsiders, and I've always had a sense of the outsider, the underdog, and a strong sense of justice towards people who are excluded.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.

I am afraid that if you don't find peaceful domestic solutions to our inequality and social problems, then it's always tempting to find other people responsible for our problems.

In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.

I am from the class that has, in a sense, benefited from the status quo, but everyone still gets victimized.

The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together.

The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.

Inequality causes problems by creating fissures in societies, leaving those at the bottom feeling marginalized or disenfranchised.

Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.

Inequality is on the rise.