Global Inequality Quotes

#1. Global inequality means that while the wealthy have too few needs, the needy have too little wealth. Capitalism is stymied, courting long-term disaster.

Benjamin Barber

#2. If you consider people, not countries, global inequality is falling rapidly.

Charles Wheelan

#3. If our goal is to slow migration, then the best way to do so is to work for a more equitable global system. But slowing migration is an odd goal, if the real problem is global inequality.

Aviva Chomsky

#4. As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise that the reasons for such a situation in our community lie in global inequality, poverty and illiteracy.

Nursultan Nazarbayev

#5. The scale of global inequality is quite simply staggering.

Winnie Byanyima

#6. Apparently my subconscious freaked out when I saw blood on the vet's coat and then I abruptly passed out right on my cat. (That's not a euphemism.)

Jenny Lawson

#7. Taking measures to ensure stability could assure the long-term economic growth and welfare at a global level

Miguel Reynolds Brandao

#8. The pure and benign light of revelation has had a meliorating influence on mankind.

George Washington

#9. Vassals of an outdated ideology unrelated to the real world, they can, when questioned on this issue, only mumble neoliberal mantras that have delivered the world economic stagnation, rising inequality and global environmental crisis

Richard Flanagan

#10. I tell people Baltimore is lucky to be rid of the Colts, they're so lousy, but I don't mean it.

Art Donovan

#11. Because characters are your creations, you are the one who ultimately gets to decide their fate.

Alexandra Adornetto

#12. Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes.

Algernon Sidney

#13. The most convincing and enduring foe of the global financial economy ultimately is the global financial economy itself. - Ulrich Beck

Richard Swift

#14. Iranians are very proud and don't want to become a pariah state like North Korea.

Edward Luck

#15. I will be your wife, Bertie.' There didn't seem much to say to this except 'Oh, thanks.

P.G. Wodehouse

#16. Contrary to the received wisdom, global markets are not unregulated. They are regulated to produce inequality.

Kevin Watkins

#17. Persistent inequality costs the U.S. hundreds of billions of dollars a year, undermining our global competitiveness, our democracy, and our ideals as a nation.

Wendy Kopp

#18. With women, love always comes first.

Agatha Christie

#19. Consistently rated the most peaceable of all countries in the world by the Global Peace Index, Iceland has reduced its military expenditure to zero, has no armed forces, and has reduced the inequality gap between rich and poor.

Scilla Elworthy

#20. Four hundred top-decision makers listed the myriad looming threats to global security, including famine, terrorism, inequality, disease, poverty and climate change. Yet when we tried to address each diverse force, we found them all attached to one universal security risk: fresh water.

Margaret Catley-Carlson