Jared Diamond Quotes

You can make too much of inequality because there is always so much of it.

The greatest issue before the people—the question of special privilege and unequal distribution of wealth.

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.

Inequality is on the rise.

Equality of opportunity as we have known it no longer exists… we are steering a steady course toward economic oligarchy, if we are not there already”

Inequality is bad for everyone, not just the middle class and the poor.

To be concerned about inequality is not engaging in class warfare.

Liberty is impossible if 36 thousand families at the top of the economic pyramid get as much income as 12 million families at the bottom.

We live in a country of grotesque inequalities.

Wealth is used to entrench inequality, not to trickle down and solve it.

Disparity is Australia's worst social problem. Thousands of lives are slowly being crushed, while billions are wasted on thousands of little initiatives trying to 'close the gap.'

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 issue of wealth inequality is ... the great moral issue of our time.

An imbalance between the rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

The prime culprit in causing contemporary social inequality seems to be merit.

There are two Americas. One which influences government and economic policy and the other which must live with the results.

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing.

Tackling inequality isn’t easy. It never has been and it never will be.

You are exacerbating inequality rather than opening up opportunity.

We should be uncomfortable with the growing gaps in our society, and we cannot allow ourselves to become desensitized to these injustices.

Ordinary people understand that the rich and powerful bully the poor and meek.

'Munmun' happened because the human world's dizzying inequality - of wealth and of power - had begun to send me over the edge, and I had to write something to try to help myself understand it a little better.

I think Republicans need to take income inequality more seriously. Not because I favor equality of outcomes. I do not. I think the Right is correct to stress merit and earned rewards, not handouts and forced equality. But I think what Republicans are blind to is that power corrupts.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

We live in a very unequal society.