Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

You shouldn't go around the world behaving ruthlessly when you don't have to. Sometimes you do have to. There is only so much pie to go around. If you're going to take more than your fair share of pie, as socialists would look at it, then someone else is not getting his. That means you've got to take it away from them.

Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other.

For me, true and authentic democracy occurs when the privileged groups assist the unprivileged groups to become more privileged.

For my part, I plan to work out a fair and adequate redistribution of city services to all city neighborhoods.

Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.

My definition of good is that you understand that this is a question of power. That you be willing to give up some power. That you be willing to give up some resources.

Maybe we ought to have a world in which things are divided between people kind of fairly.

From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs.

Public action should seek to expand the set of opportunities of those who have the least voice and fewest resources and capabilities.

Justice often means taking power from some who have it and giving it to some who do not.

There is plenty of corn in Castile, but he who has none, starves.

We define poverty as a shortage of material goods, which justifies the production of more and more material goods. It does not occur to us that it might be more realistic to regard it as an aberrant situation in which more material goods are required than can actually be produced, for then the solution would be to create those socio-economic conditions in which less goods rather than more were required.

I do not object to butchering quite so much if everybody gets a fair share of the hog. But when a favored few get all the ham and pork chops, and the rest of the people get just plain old sow belly, at least the people are entitled to know what they are swallowing.

Very few governments have the money to meet the needs of their people….The private sector has most of the resources.

If the people are not getting what the people need, you shouldn’t be paying for it.

All men would then be necessarily equal, if they were without needs. It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

Freedom for the pike is death for the minnow.

The air, the water and the ground are free gifts to man and no one has the power to portion them out in parcels. Man must drink and breathe and walk and therefore each man has a right to his share of each.

Those who start life with the fewest advantages need the smallest classes.

If we don't at least try to make the future more equitable, most of us will left with simply scraps.

The difference between equity and equality is that equality is everyone get the same thing and equity is everyone get the things they deserve.

If I am more fortunate than others I need to build a longer table not a taller fence.

When you have a limited resource and you have a lot of people wanting that resource, then those who get more justify as to why they got more, and those who get less say they have been treated badly.

Inequality is inextricably linked with distribution of land and natural resources.

What is it going to take to dismantle the systems that keep me from being able to live well and that keep me and so many other people from being able to access the things that we need and deserve?