Angus Deaton Quotes

At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.

Inequality doesn't create unhappiness.

Inequality is a poison that is destroying livelihoods, stripping families of dignity, and splitting communities.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

Everything the working class has been told to do, the rich do not do. That is my message.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

Inequality is on the rise.

Hunger, the inseparable companion of the poor, is the offspring of the unequal distribution of the wealth and the injustices in this world. The rich do not know hunger.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return

Every man is equally entitled to protection by law; but when the laws undertake to add… artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society -- the farmers, mechanics, and laborers -- who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government.

Liberty is impossible if 36 thousand families at the top of the economic pyramid get as much income as 12 million families at the bottom.

I think inequality has gone past the point where it's helping us all get rich, and it's really becoming a serious threat.

We need to recognize that it is growing economic inequality that creates the conditions for hate to fester.

'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.

The only living socities are those which are animated by inequality and injustice.

It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.

So much has happened to obscure the dialogue about race and about gender and discrimination in general, especially where those things touch on economics.

When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed.

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

In America, the top 1 percent led the country into war and economic devastation, leaving the less fortunate to fight for one and pay for both.

Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.

Things do go wrong. Not everyone benefits from the capitalist dream.

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.