Social Imbalance Quotes

Why did the world ever become so unequal?

We are equal in war but not in peace.

This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.

'Egalitarians' who complain about inequality view the wealth of the wealthiest as bad in itself: it disfigures society. They would enact a wealth tax to extirpate the offending wealth.

Success breeds inequality, and you don't want to choke off success.

There has been a tendency only to deal with a certain social class when it comes to stories more than 100 years ago.

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.

Crime is a product of social excess.

Class envy is dangerous.

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.

The nations of the world are becoming more and more dependent on one another and it will not be possible to preserve a lasting peace so long as glaring economic and social imbalances persist.

The world is an inherently unfair place.

I think there are fundamental power imbalances between the sexes that play themselves out in society. And I think science is just not immune to that - which actually isn't a very controversial stance if you think about it.

A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to spiritual sterility.

The richer we have become materially, the poorer we become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly in the air like birds and swim in the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.

The solidarity which binds all men together as members of a common family makes it impossible for wealthy nations to look with indifference upon the hunger, misery and poverty of other nations whose citizens are unable to enjoy even elementary human rights. The nations of the world are becoming more and more dependent on one another and it will not be possible to preserve a lasting peace so long as glaring economic and social imbalances persist.

We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.

Power wears out those who do not have it.

Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals as the citizen in a democracy. The particular imbalance of this ideology leads to a worship of self-interest and a denial of the public good. The practical effects on the individual are passivity and conformism in the areas that matter, and non-conformism in the areas that don't

Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you.

We have allowed the interests of capital to outweigh the interests of human beings and our Earth.

As income inequality increases, social mobility falls.

The narcissist enjoys being looked at and not looking back.

In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.