Angus Deaton Quotes

The rich stick together; the poor and the marginalised are thrown together.

If there is a class war—and there is—it is important that it should be handled with subtlety and skill. ... it is not freedom that Conservatives want; what they want is the sort of freedom that will maintain existing inequalities or restore lost ones.

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

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.

We live in a very unequal society.

The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.

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

Social inequality … divides society into two classes -- the wage-slaves and the grabbers of capital

As you would expect when individualism is based only on opportunity, no one asks what happens to those who have neither the financial nor the political clout to exercise their tiny portion of that opportunity.

Is the great working class oppressed? Yes, undoubtedly it is. God has intended the great to be great and the little to be little.

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

That system, unequal as it is indefensible, is the mightiest engine of oppression imposed upon an honest yeomanry since the feudal ages. This system places a high premium on wealth and a severe penalty on poverty.

To be concerned about inequality is not engaging in class warfare.

Although globalization and technological change have disrupted traditional work arrangements, both processes have the potential to benefit everyone. The fact that they have not suggests that the wealthy have captured the benefits for themselves.

What I see happening to this country is a neo-caste system.

'Munmun' happened because the human world's dizzying inequality - of wealth and of power - had begun to send me over the edge, and I had to write something to try to help myself understand it a little better.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country.

Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.

Society is better off without certain people.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

When you're in the minority, it doesn't matter what you're agenda is, you're not going to have the degree of freedom that you have as a member of the majority.

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

Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society.

The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls. That is the reality of Haiti.