Kapil Sibal 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.

The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.

It's hard to get people to empathize with the poor. You can get some people to sympathize with the poor, but to empathize is actually very hard, because most people are not poor. I realized that scarcity gives you a thread.

I think inequality is fine, as long as it is in the common interest. The problem is when it gets so extreme, when it becomes excessive.

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

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.

I want nothing to do with privilege.

In science, as in business, there must be structures that ensure the well endowed do not use their position to block competition.

I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?

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

I resent anyone coming in and claiming to be a minority as I am.

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.

Poverty is born of super-abundance itself.

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

The fundamental problem of society is that demands are infinite and resources are always limited

Everything is different when you're not in the starting position.

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

I'm a straight white man - I have options, and I'm not blocked on a consistent basis when I wake up in the morning because of my race, sex, and orientation.

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

The status quo is never happy when things become a meritocracy.

I understand it must be hard to realize that the playing field you are collecting all your trophies from is not a level playing field, but that doesn't mean you can just make inaccurate statements.

And a human being whose life is nurtured in an advantage which has accrued from the disadvantage of other human beings, and who prefers that this should remain as it is, is a human being by definition only, having much more in common with the bedbug, the tapeworm, the cancer, and the scavengers of the deep sea.

I don't think the world works on merit.

Beware of privilege. It stinks of rotten fish heads, many of which were lapping the shore beneath the jetties.

Our bounty, like a drop of water, disappears, when diffus'd too widely