Inequality quotes
18 inequality quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- From the movie: Deep Cover
“- Hector Guzman: You racist Americans. You just want to cut us poor Hispanics completely out of the market.
- David Jason: No, Mr. Guzman. I think you know that there's no such thing as an American anymore. No Hispanics, no Japanese, no blacks, no whites, no nothing. It's just rich people and poor people. The three of us are all rich, so we're...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: The Two Popes
“We have spent these last years disciplining anyone who disagrees with our line on divorce, on birth control, on being gay. While our planet was being destroyed, while inequality grew like a cancer. We worried whether it was alright to speak the Mass in Latin, whether girls should be allowed to be altar servers. We built walls around us, and all...” (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: Late Night
“- Katherine Newbury: I can’t give you a raise, Gabe. It’s like giving a raise to a drug addict.
- Gabe Eichler: What?
- Katherine Newbury: Well, your situations are virtually identical. A drug addict makes certain decisions outside of work for their sense of self and comfort, and then the addiction demands more time, more energy, more money,...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Malcolm X
- From the movie: Lincoln
- From the movie: Wrong Is Right
- From the movie: Swimming with Sharks
“Hollywood studio executives don't recognize the value of female performers as much as male performers.”
- From the movie: Enemy at the Gates
- From the movie: A Time to Kill
- From the movie: The Cider House Rules
“They outrageous, them rules. Who live in this cider house? Who grindin' up those apples, pressin' that cider, cleanin' up all this mess? Who just plain live here, just breathin' in that vinegar? Someone who don't live here made those rules. Those rules ain't for us. We are supposed to make our own rules. And we do. Every single day.”
- From the movie: Another Country
“In your heart of hearts, like Barclay and Delahay and Fowler and me, you still believe, inspite of your talk of equality and fraternity, you still believe that some people are better than others because of the way they make love.”
- From the movie: Stage Door
“It takes all kinds of people to make a world!”
- From the movie: Strange Days
“One man's mundane and desperate existence is another man's Technicolor.”
- From the movie: Glengarry Glen Ross
“The rich getting richer, that's the law of the land.”
- From the movie: Out of the Past
“A dame with a rod is like a guy with a knitting needle.”
- From the movie: Irreconcilable Differences
“Mother, you and dad for a long time did not recognize my rights as a human being. You both treated me like chattel. You cannot do with me as you please anymore. We have irreconcilable differences.”
- From the movie: A Civil Action
“It's like this. A dead plaintiff is rarely worth as much as a living, severely-maimed plaintiff. However, if it's a long slow agonizing death, as opposed to a quick drowning or car wreck, the value can rise considerably. A dead adult in his 20s is generally worth less than one who is middle aged. A dead woman less than a dead man. A single adult...” (continue)(continue reading)
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