A lot of our sources for income-inequality measures come from household surveys in which people report how much they earned in the last year, how much income they have, and so on. Those are not as well funded as they should be. We need to have those numbers.

Angus Deaton

White people need to wake up and tell the truth about US history and the inequality and the ways in which racism is so entrenched.

Aaron Dessner

Truth History Equality

Global poverty is a complex web of interlinked problems. There is no one 'silver bullet' that will solve global inequality. Multiple contributing factors must be tackled in parallel. Yes, education alone is unlikely to lead to employment without economic reform to address the demand side in much of the developing world.

Adam Braun

Men Equality Education

Everything in America is so stratified by class now. We have the 93rd level of income inequality in the world. You're already seeing highway lanes that are for pay and ones that aren't.

Adam McKay

Equality You World

I have always had an extreme sensitivity to inequality.

Agnes Gund

Equality Ways Way

As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways. Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.

Al Sharpton

Society Equality Ways

There is a huge number of people outside our borders who would love to come here. In fact, many of them come here, get well educated, and then are required to leave... This is a factor in income inequality.

Alan Greenspan

Love Equality Would

Income inequality isn't sexy.

Alexandra C. Pelosi

Equality T Sexy

The increase in inequality in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly. Especially if they live in an area where there are high housing and gas prices, like California.

Alice Rivlin

Work Time Equality

The daily deluge of tales of lechery and trauma holds a hidden but crucial truism: sexual harassment routinely feeds on income inequality. After all, it's much harder to exploit an equal.

Alissa Quart

Men Equality Truism

No matter how we name and dissect inequality, we must keep explaining the larger downside of such concentrated extreme wealth.

Alissa Quart

Equality Wealth Us

Inequality reigns in horrifying ways, and not everyone can even read, but the world of media and advertising withholds very little from the imagination of the dispossessed.

Amitava Kumar

Imagination Equality Yin

It's really difficult for mainstream - let's say, cable outlets - to talk about things like income inequality, wealth inequality when the advertisers that are funding their shows are the same corporations that want to ensure that the same system continues.

Ana Kasparian

Equality Wealth Want

Income inequality and government corruption are both unfortunate realities in the United States.

Ana Kasparian

Men Government Equality

Income inequality has become so prevalent in the U.S. that examples of its negative impact on the middle class are as common as Kanye West saying something cringeworthy in the media.

Ana Kasparian

Equality Yin Worthy

Income inequality has made having kids, much like getting a quality college education, a rich person's privilege.

Ana Kasparian

Equality Education Vile

A century after some women first got the vote, we are upping the pressure for change to consign Parliament's legacy of inequality in the past.

Andrea Leadsom

Women Men Equality

Corruption is... the result of a decadent political regime. We are absolutely convinced that this evil is the main cause of social and economic inequality, and also that corruption is to blame for the violence in our country.

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

Equality Violence Use

If you don't have money or you come from a background that doesn't have money, it's harder to achieve your ambition in life. It's not that you can't, but it becomes harder. Inequality is one of the worst things that can exist in our society, so I am interested in those kind of things.

Andrew Haigh

Society Money Life

There is, happily, a non-redistributive approach to address income inequality - one that doesn't rely upon government. It's to grow the pie. That is, create more decent jobs that pay more.

Andrew Yang

Men Government Equality

If a new company is formed, it hires people and creates jobs in its community. As it grows, people's opportunities multiply and wages rise. Inequality diminishes as more people get pulled into good jobs.

Andrew Yang

Good Equality Age

Growing up in Mississippi - a state that historically was a place of racial injustice, inequality and oppression - gave me the unique opportunity to experience first-hand the evolution of the civil rights movement through the eyes of my parents, grandparents, and the black elders of our community.

Angela McGlowan

We need radical, transformative solutions to address the inequality that is blighting millions of people's lives.

Angela Rayner

People on left have to better understand what are the benefits of inequality, and people on right have to understand better what the dangers are... It has to become properly hardwired into the American democratic debate in a way that it hasn't really been.

Angus Deaton

It is true that globalization has fueled greater income inequality. But much of this increase should be welcomed, not condemned. There is nothing inherently bad about inequality. Whether it is bad depends on how it comes about and what it does.

Angus Deaton

Inequality is not so much a cause of economic, political, and social processes as a consequence. Some of these processes are good, some are bad, and some are very bad indeed.

Angus Deaton

Inequality is partly a marker of success.

Angus Deaton

Inequality is not the same thing as unfairness; and, to my mind, it is the latter that has incited so much political turmoil in the rich world today.

Angus Deaton

I don't think equality is intrinsically valuable, meaning in and of itself. I'm not against inequality... if Bill Gates gets another hundred million dollars, it's no skin off my nose.

Angus Deaton

I'm very keen that we have this debate about the good parts of inequality and the bad parts of inequality. It's not a one-sided thing.

Angus Deaton

I think inequality has gone past the point where it's helping us all get rich, and it's really becoming a serious threat.

Angus Deaton

I'm in favor of inequality if it comes about from people making great innovations that make us all better off. And I think those people deserve to be rich. But the people who get rich by lobbying the Congress to give them special protections that come out of the hides of the workers seems to be a bad idea.

Angus Deaton

If someone thinks of something, some new innovation that benefits us all, and the market works properly, they get richly rewarded for that, and that's just terrific, and that creates inequality.

Angus Deaton

Success breeds inequality, and you don't want to choke off success.

Angus Deaton

Inequality is an enormously complicated thing that is both good and bad.

Angus Deaton

I both love inequality and am terrified of it.

Angus Deaton

A lot of our sources for income-inequality measures come from household surveys in which people report how much they earned in the last year, how much income they have, and so on. Those are not as well funded as they should be. We need to have those numbers.

Angus Deaton

A lot of people, including me, are worried that inequality will lead to bad things.

Angus Deaton

Capitalism is, fundamentally, an economic system that promotes inequality.

Annalee Newitz

It's true that globalization, with all its fantastic improvements in the world and the technological progress linked to it, has increased inequality at country level, especially inside countries. And there are people that were left behind - people, sectors, regions - that has created a sense of frustration in the rust belts of the world.

Antonio Guterres

Our world faces many grave challenges: Widening conflicts and inequality. Extreme weather and deadly intolerance. Security threats - including nuclear weapons. We have the tools and wealth to overcome these challenges. All we need is the will.

Antonio Guterres

Some of the anti-trade sentiment is the result of rising wealth inequality and stagnating real wages.

Arancha Gonzalez

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

Aristotle

We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering.

Artur Davis

And of course, we know that opportunity lies outside the reach of some of our people. We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering.

Artur Davis

Study after study has shown that the availability of stable employment, reduced income inequality and post-imprisonment neighbourhood affluence are three of the most significant factors in reducing the frequency of violent offences.

Ash Sarkar

My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.

Aung San Suu Kyi

We must acknowledge that issues like systemic racism, economic inequality, and the achievement gap are the result of manmade policies.

Ayanna Pressley

What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.

B. R. Ambedkar

Grave security concerns can arise as a result of demographic trends, chronic poverty, economic inequality, environmental degradation, pandemic diseases, organized crime, repressive governance and other developments no state can control alone. Arms can't address such concerns.

Ban Ki-moon

Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.

Barney Frank