Albert Camus Quotes

And understand: class differences will not save you.

I think that 'Elysium' the movie is unrealistic, with the space station and everything. I think 'Elysium' the metaphor is completely realistic: it's exactly where we're going.

There's some way in which we would prefer not to see very clearly the immense gifts and intelligence of some of the people who live in our most abject conditions. Maybe there are some things at work in deciding who gets to be society's winners and who gets to be society's losers that don't have to do with merit.

I am no leveller; I look upon an artificial equality as equally pernicious with a factitious aristocracy; both depressing the energies and checking the enterprise of a nation.

A meritocracy increases inequality --- by its very nature, it has to.

In England, more than in any comparable country, those who are born poor are more likely to stay poor, and those who inherit privilege are more likely to pass on privilege. For those of us who believe in social justice, this stratification and segregation are morally indefensible.

In what purports to be an egalitarian society, the existence of class is the secret about which no one speaks.

The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.

A permanent division of labor inevitably creates occupational and class inequality and conflict.

One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesn't work on this mirror principle, you don't have an exact replica on the left of what you have on the right. It just doesn't work that way.

When inequality gets too extreme, then it becomes useless for growth, and it can even become bad because it tends to lead to high perpetuation of inequality over time and low mobility.

The world is an enormous injustice.

I started out young and idealistic, and it was all about social justice and fair distribution of resources. I didn't understand why everybody couldn't be equally prosperous.

In Britain, by contrast, we still think that class plays a part in determining a person's life chances, so we're less inclined to celebrate success and less inclined to condemn failure. The upshot is that it's much easier to be a failure in Britain than it is in America.

Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.

I love playing women at the far ends of the social scale. I've done it all my life; that's where my ability lies.

I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside story books and dreams.

Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid.

That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside the door is extreme poverty.

I only knew about daily life. It was said, well, it isn't everybody's daily life. That is why I started.

Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity.

We live in a society and a culture and an economic model that tries to make everything look right.

I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.

You've got a beautiful country with so many beautiful people and so many beautiful things happening and stuff like that lets it down. I feel sad for them.

For a long time in the United States, in practice if not in principle, only white, male, Protestants were born free and equal.