An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics. Plutarch
It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals. Felix Frankfurter
An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects. Martin Luther.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. Aristotle.
Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way. Will Durant
The contrast of affluence and wretchedness, continually meeting and offending the eye, is like the dead and living bodies, chained together. Tom Paine
Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class. Matthew Arnold
The only inequalities that matter begin in the mind. It is not income levels but differences in mental equipment that keep people apart, breed feelings of inferiority. Jacquetta Hawkes