Ann Leckie Quotes

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

There are two separate systems in America. One for the privileged, and one for everybody else.

There are but two families in the world … The haves and the have-nots.

The world belongs to the wealthy, and nowhere is this injustice more apparent than in the workplace.

The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.

So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage.

We live increasingly in a world of haves and have-nots, of gated communities next to ghettos, of extreme poverty and unbelievable riches. Some enjoy rights that are completely denied to others. Relative inequalities are exploding, and the world's poorest, despite all the advances of globalisation, may even be getting poorer.

In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.

Washing dishes as a 17-year-old in an Oxford college and seeing the privileged lifestyles of the undergraduates there convinced me that a system that allowed luxury for the few at the expense of the many needed to be challenged.

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.

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

Because TED is for, and by, unbelievably rich people, they tiptoe around questions of the justness of a society that rewards TED attendees so much for what usually amounts to a series of lucky breaks.

The messenger matters. When people of modest means complain about inequality, it usually gets written off as class warfare, but when billionaires complain, the problem is redefined.

The rich don’t want the poor to get ahead of them.

The defeats and victories for the people at the top aren't defeats and victories for the people at the bottom.

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.

Economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege

This College system went into practice to draw a line of demarcation between the two classes of society—it separated the children of the rich from the children of the poor.

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

The wall between rich and poor is a wall of glass which all can see.

The "have nots" outnumber the "haves." No wonder the ruling class of every country grows more and more alarmed.

One must denounce the economic, financial, and social mechanisms and structures that are manipulated by the rich and powerful for their own benefit at the expense of the poor

It is not fair that some people should have a better chance in life simply because of where they live.

one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.