Alexander Pope Quotes

No one is so rich and powerful that they cannot be punished, and no one is so poor that they cannot be protected.

I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that puts them at an advantage over the poor.

I don't think we live in a particularly equal society.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

We repudiate the rights of a privileged class, and uphold the rights of a privileged race.

There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.

The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are so seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them

Inequality is a fact. Equality is a value.

To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth ought not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration.

All men are created equal. Some, it appears, are created a little more equal than others.

Justice is not available to all equally; it is something that many of us must struggle to achieve.

All inequality that has no special utility to justify it is injustice.

The possession of wealth does not confer upon the wealthy the right to take advantage of the less fortunate.

Over 17 years, I took on banks, landlords, real estate firms, local governments, anybody who treated anybody unfairly.

There's something in people's character, particularly the British character, about unfairness. They don't like it.

I hate the unfairness of injustice. Anybody who thinks they are better than others or 'chosen' or feel they have an entitlement... be it through monarchy, government or money. I think we are all born the same. We are entitled to an equal shot at life.

Social justice rests on the hate towards those that enjoy a comfortable position, namely, upon envy.

The world is not a meritocracy, as much as we may like to pretend that it is. And we have a long way to go before we really reward people based on their own merit.

Everybody in politics claims to want to get everybody out of poverty. What's the opposite? Wealth. And what is often criticized by the left? Wealth.

Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.

If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country.

Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

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.

We live in a very unequal society.