Quotes About Disadvantage

It's not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage.

I grew up in Northern Ireland, in the middle of nowhere, and when you are poor, you are really poor. And when you are rich, you are very rich. This is not a new phenomenon.

When I see the discrepancy between kids in the Philippines and the U.S., I feel like I have to give them an opportunity.

I think the most successful are the most paranoid. The first thing people do when they buy a mansion is they build the biggest wall you could possibly build around it. What happens is, now you become a target. If I go into the hood, I'm at a disadvantage. They could carry guns. I can't. They can hit me in the face. I can't.

There is definitely places in America where, if you're born into that environment, your chances of getting out are really, really limited.

Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as a child. It's something I've revisited a few times in my writings.

Students come away with a clear message about how admissions works: If you have money, connections or 'insider' knowledge, you have a leg up. It's hardly surprising that many students of modest or lower means decide it's not even worth playing.

A miner's terrace afforded little space for secret panels, priests' holes, escape tunnels. Even in persecution, the poor were disadvantaged.

A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.

Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance.

Perhaps the greatest difference among people is between those who never have to worry about money and those who do.

I am very fortunate I can send my kids to private school, but everybody does not have the money. If you cannot get your kid in a good school today, your kids are going to be behind the eight ball.

Poverty is the mother of all revolutions

It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.

Positive feedback makes the strong grow stronger and the weak grow weaker.

I would like to have an ample fund to spread the light of Republicanism, but I am willing to undergo the disadvantage to make certain that in the future we shall reduce the power of money in politics for unworthy purposes.

I see the supposed convenience of being able to trade ETFs throughout the day as a psychological disadvantage. Unless you are able to predict intraday market moves—a fool's errand if ever there was one—you are faced with the oftentimes paralyzing choice of exactly when to buy or sell.

Either God exists or He doesn't. Either I believe in God or I don't. Of the four possibilities, only one is to my disadvantage. To avoid that possibility, I believe in God.

If you're poor, you don't often live near a good school. If it's a competitive public school program, our kids are not prepared to enter those programs.

If I can look at your zip code and I can tell whether you're going to get a good education, we've got a real problem.

Good manners protect the privileged, but leave the unprivileged more vulnerable.

The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.

Nobody had books at home. My dad was a very educated person, so he would have books at home. All Spanish books. That helped. Most of my homies had no books at home.

The already privileged receive privileged educations. The disadvantaged receive inferior educations, and then we blame them for their failure.