Quotes About Disparity

Russia has a population of 150 million people and a GDP of $4 trillion. In both population and production it is dwarfed by the United States (325 million people and a $19 trillion GDP) and the European Union (500 million people and a $21 trillion GDP).6 Together, the United States and the European Union have five times more people than Russia, and ten times more dollars.

All wealth and power might be concentrated in the hands of a tiny elite, while most people will suffer not from exploitation, but from something far worse - irrelevance.

Yet it might be poised to create the most unequal of all societies.

Whereas the rich residents of Beverly Hills eat lettuce salad and steamed tofu with quinoa, in the slums and ghettos the poor gorge on Twinkie cakes, Cheetos, hamburgers and pizza.

The economic pie of 2014 is far larger than the pie of 1500, but it is distributed so unevenly that many African peasants and Indonesian labourers return home after a hard day's work with less food than did their ancestors 500 years ago.

Property is a prerequisite for long-term inequality.

Even more alarmingly, the richest one hundred people together own more than the poorest four billion.

One year of the world's military spending equals 700 years of the U.N. budget and equals 2,928 years of the U.N. budget allocated for women.

Toro Seduto] non riusciva a capire come gli uomini bianchi potessero essere così incuranti dei loro poveri. "L'uomo bianco sa fare tutte le cose," disse "ma non sa come distribuirle.

Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.

If we seized all the assets of the eighty-five wealthiest people in the world to make a fund to give annually to the poorest half, it would raise their spending power by less than 10 cents a day.

México. Riqueza descomunal y pobreza desgarradora.

at rude variance with the poverty of its surroundings.

One of the interesting dichotomies of life is that the poor people are invariably very generous, and the rich people are the real cheapskates.

The distance between taking social action and having the knowledge is as wide as the mouth of the Mississippi.

Then I began to think that it is very true which is commonly said that the one-half of the world knoweth not how the other half liveth.

Don't raise the bar and narrow the gap, but narrow the gap to raise the bar.

With so much disparity, is there a unified message between the two testaments? One could safely assume the central plot of the Scriptures is the gospel, but how do all of the differences between the Old and New Testaments come together to form the unified gospel message?

gap between average employee and CEO pay is largest in the financial industry and smallest in technology.

What is a source of sorrow to some is a source of joy to others.

As different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.

Perceiving myself in a blunder, I attempted to correct it. I might have seen there was too great a disparity between the ages of the parties to make it likely that they were man and wife. One was about forty: a period of mental vigour at which men seldom cherish the delusion of being married for love by girls: that dream is reserved for the solace of our declining years. The other did not look seventeen.

Quienes perciben con mayor intensidad el impacto de la globalización son quienes menos se benefician de ella.

In America the rich man's objective never will be to make the poor man rich.