Unbalanced Distribution of Resources Quotes

For thousands of years, the natural tendency of elites everywhere has been to monopolize power rather than restrain it.

Rising inequality leads to less sustainable growth.

The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.

The state grew fat, but the people grew lean.

Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat.

If, in a country, the wealth is concentrated in the hands of only the few, it cannot witness harmony and stability.

Ultraconservatism is, to me, so illogical. Everywhere you go, conservatives want to cut, cut, cut, cut - cut money for powerless people. So, that's the biggest problem I have with them.

Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves.

In America, economic, cultural and political power is dispersed. In the U.K., centralisation is a gift to the vested interests.

We would be driving down the street in a place like Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo, and started to see, my gosh, the only people that have shoes are men. Why does that woman have a baby in her belly and one on her back, and she's carrying a huge load of bananas? You start to ask these questions.

The danger of leaving overwhelming wealth and power in the grasp of a small minority is a lesson that leaders such as ousted Tunisian president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali and deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak have learned a little too late, as the demonstrations across the Arab world indicate.

India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.

This country is going to implode, or put another way, it's going to get crushed under the weight of poverty. You can't have one percent of the people who own and control more wealth than the other 90 percent of the population.

The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake.

For the past 20 years, the PAP has had a strong monopoly. However, prosperity has not flowed to all Singaporeans.

In middle-income countries, inequality becomes a problem because you can see there is a layer of people who are doing well, while the poor are still stuck there. We have 300 million poor in India.

The SSA's practice of allowing union activity during normal federal government operations is unfair to seniors and taxpayers.

You know, Saudi Arabia has a lot of poverty also. Regardless about what you hear about the viceroy and people being rich, et cetera.

Bloated budgets are ruining Hollywood - these pictures are squeezing all the other types of movies out of Hollywood. It's disastrous.

If there is a rich man in the area three villages are ruined.

Many people say the privatisation was unfair: that is true - it was unfair. That is a fact: some people became rich and others did not. Unfair does not mean illegal, but it was inevitably unfair.

And there are so many people in the third world suffering so horribly right now, and we are so focused on ourselves and our culture that a lot of things are showing up in our culture that are making it impossible for us to focus on others. We're so self-focused.