7 quotes
“Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.”
"The poor lack much, the greedy everything."
— Publilius Syrus
"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics."
— Plutarch
"One thing you notice about progress, kid, is that it doesn't happen to everyone."
— Jeanette Winterson
"Thu luxury of one class is counterbalanced by the indigence of another."
— Henry David Thoreau
"I wonder why it is that the countries with the most nobles also have the most misery?"
— Francis Bacon
"The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune."
— Tocqueville