#unequal

Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the envy of the world and should be a source of pride. ↗

— Arthur C. Brooks

#contrary #envy #free #free markets #incomes

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal. ↗

— Will Durant

#declaration #independence #make #nature #never

In a condition of society and under an industrial organization which places labor completely at the mercy of capital, the accumulations of capital will necessarily be rapid, and an unequal distribution of wealth is at once to be observed. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#completely #condition #distribution #industrial #industrial organization

When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have, it is a world that moves away from unequal, unstable, unsustainable interdependence to integrated communities - locally, nationally and globally - that share the characteristics of all successful communities. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#away #characteristics #communities #daughter #globally

Again two manufacturers may employ the same amount of fixed, and the same amount of circulating capital; but the durability of their fixed capitals may be very unequal. ↗

— David Ricardo

#amount #capital #capitals #circulating #employ

Hope is putting Faith "on the line" and expecting results! (from Mission Possible - Spiritual Covering) ↗

— Deborah L. McCarragher

#family-life #inspirational #marriage #non-fiction #relationships

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. ↗

— Aristotle

#form #inequality #make #things #try

I cannot understand how the education of this United States of America has been fooled time and time again. Either make it separate but equal or integrate, therefore it will be equal. And it has been separate and unequal. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#america #been #cannot #education #either

Separate and unequal didn't work 100 years ago. It will not work today. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#ago #separate #today #unequal #will

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#equal #equality #freedom #rather #slavery