"The rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, and ordered their estate."

Alexander, Cecil F. · Inequality · 0 fans >>
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"When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?"

Ball, John · Inequality · 1 fans >>
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"We accept and welcome... as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment; the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few; and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race."

Carnegie, Andrew · Inequality · 1 fans >>
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"My grandma (rest her soul) used to say, There were but two families in the world, have-much and have-little."

Cervantes, Miguel De · Inequality · 1 fans >>
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"The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society."

Cooper, James F. · Inequality · 0 fans >>
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"Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor."

Disraeli, Benjamin · Inequality · 0 fans >>
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"No amount of artificial reinforcement can offset the natural inequalities of human individuals."

Fairchild, Henry P. · Inequality · 0 fans >>
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"The only inequalities that matter begin in the mind. It is not income levels but differences in mental equipment that keep people apart, breed feelings of inferiority."

Hawkes, Jacquetta · Inequality · 0 fans >>
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"So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other."

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"People differ in capacity, skill, health, strength; and unequal fortune is a necessary result of unequal condition. Such inequality is far from being disadvantageous either to individuals or to the community."

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