top of page
"It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Inequality quotes

"The unemployment rate is still twice as high for blacks as for whites."

"A permanent division of labor inevitably creates occupational and class inequality and conflict."

"How unjust then to meet that person you love, and be kept away from them only because ones bed is made of hay , and the other, feathers."

"There is a very simple relationship between increased socioeconomic rifts in the society and increased violence, criminality, war, increased lack of trust between people, health problems and social exclusion - but it seems to be very difficult for people to understand this simple relationship."

"Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses."

"Modern married women do not fare better in life than their single counterparts. Married women in America do not live longer than single women; married women do not accumulate as much wealth as single women (you take a 7 percent pay cut, on average, just for getting hitched); married women do not thrive in their careers to the extent single women do; married women are significantly less healthy than single women; married women are more likely to suffer from depression than single women; and married women are more likely to die a violent death than single women-usually at the hands of a husband, which raises the grim reality that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous person in the average woman's life is her own man."

"In that day an educated rich man was acceptable. He might send his sons to college without comment, might wear a vest and white shirt and tie in the daytime of a weekday, might wear gloves and keep his nails clean. And since the lives and practices of rich men were mysterious, who knows what they could use or not use? But a poor man""what need had he for poetry or for painting or for music not fit for singing or dancing?"

"Why we are hanging around with inequality concept every day, it is like comparing water with the bread."

"The problem is that rich are getting richer by not giving and poor and getting poorer by not receiving."

"Girls get Screwed. Not that kind of screwed, what I mean is, they're always on the short end of things. The way things work, how guys feel great, but make girls feel cheap for doing exactly what they beg for."
Explore more quotes by Felix Frankfurter

"The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards."

"It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow."

"We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician."

"I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to turn my back on a great and noble heritage."

"The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind."

"It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people."
bottom of page