"American inequality didn't just happen. It was created."

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Source : Joseph E. Stiglitz (2013). “The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future”, p.34, W. W. Norton & Company

Joseph Stiglitz

#Inequality Quotes

“Made by Hand is impossible to set down once you start reading it.”
“Like any parent, I just want the best for my kids, whatever they decide to do. They will choose what path they want to follow, and we will always be there to encourage them.”
“Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry..about the country, the suburbs and the seaside... then there come's love... and increasingly; the fear of death.”

Source : Radio Talk on BBC Third Programme, 1949.
“Did the walls of the barn start to tremble With a glory they could not contain? Did anyone wake with the feeling Of peace that they could not explain? Oh the love must have been overwhelming As it warmed everyone in it's flow For all of the earth is still telling of 2000 Decembers ago.”

Source : Song: 2000 Decembers Ago
“Most of what has lived on Earth has left behind no record at all.”
“Do you know what happens when an Arabian woman dances? She does not dance: she protests, she loves, she cries, she makes love, she dreams, she goes away from her reality, to her own world, where love is really meant and she does not want to come back, because that is her reality.”
“I'll do a cappella stuff, rock 'n' roll and swing stuff.”
“Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.”

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