Disadvantage Quotes

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

It is easy to kick a person when he is down.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.

It's very easy for Australians living in big cities to either romanticise or demonise the situation in Aboriginal places - to kind of look at things through the 'noble innocents' prism or through the 'chronically dysfunctional' prism, and I suspect that is so often the case.

A weak people and its equally debilitated leaders are bludgeoned by history. It maims them into the cripples that they are meant to be.

If class warfare is being waged in America, my class is clearly winning.

I don't have rights. Let's put it this way: in athletics, I don't have rights.

There is much in American society which I admire, but I have long held the view that the absence of an effective safety net in that country means that too many needy citizens fall by the wayside.

Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

There are people who are victims in life, and I don't think they should be encouraged.

You don't have to be impoverished to understand poverty.

Power is dangerous for those who do not have it.

I had never gone to college. I was not from a politically connected family. I had no money of my own. Who is going to do business with you?

When I go to Afghanistan, I realize I've been spared, due to a random genetic lottery, by being born to people who had the means to get out. Every time I go to Afghanistan I am haunted by that.

Was there ever any domination which did not appear natural to those who possessed it?

The real world is horrible.

The universe is not fair and it is never going to be fair.

I didn't believe one man should have so much services and another man should have none.

When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat.

It's not a meritocracy until everyone starts with the same opportunities, is it?

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, “you are free to compete with all the others”, and still justly believe that you have been completely fair. Thus it is not enough just to open the gates of opportunity. All our citizens must have the ability to walk through the those gates.