Quotes About Disparity

Rich kid, Shiva yelled, you don't know one damn thing! What purpose , man? What thing in the whole sister-sleeping world got reason , yara? For what reason you're rich and I'm poor? Where's the reason in starving, man? God knows how many millions of damn fools living in this country, man, and you think there's a purpose! Man, I'll tell you -- you got to get what you can, do what you can with it, and then you got to die. That's reason, rich boy. Everything else is only mother-sleeping wind !

One day the poor will have nothing left to eat except the rich

In short, it's a great economy if you're a high-level corporate executive or someone who owns a lot of stock. For most other Americans, economic growth is a spectator sport.

When the question is reduced to the simple expression of the struggle between poverty and wealth, the tendency of each side of the dispute becomes perfectly evident without further controversy.

When hereditary wealth, the privileges of rank, and the prerogatives of birth have ceased to be, and when every man derives his strength from himself alone, it becomes evident that the chief cause of disparity between the fortunes of men is the mind.

The three wealthiest people in the world own more than the GDP of forty-eight countries!

Every nation was rich in its own way, but poor in the same.

Huh." Above us, not ten strides distant, are some of the most fashionable addresses in the city. The shimmering palaces and a river of shit, so much closer together than most would ever like to believe. Everything beautiful has a dark side, and some of us must dwell there, so that others can laugh in the light.

It's always the poor who are crushed under rich men's ambitions. And yet they rarely complain, because ... well ..." "They dream of having towers o' their own?" Cosca chuckled. " Why, yes, I suppose they do. They don't see that the higher you climb, the further you have to fall." "Men rarely see that 'til the ground's rushing at 'em.

It's like going into a nuclear war with bows and arrows.

This gap in understanding between books and screens is big enough that in elementary-school children, it's the equivalent of two-thirds of a year's growth in reading comprehension.

Cuanta más desigualdad hay en una sociedad, más extendida está toda suerte de enfermedades mentales.

His easy going behavior contrasts greatly with my restlessness

All movies are different, all movies have their own life.

The difference of the degrees in which the individuals of a great community enjoy the good things of life has been a theme of declaration and discontent in all ages.

I'm 40 years old. What I have seen my whole life is widening income inequality.

No other health disparity is so stark; virtually every woman who dies giving birth lives in a poor country.

A citizen of an advanced industrialized nation consumes in six months the energy and raw materials that have to last the citizen of a developing country his entire lifetime.

The average life expectancy of a celebrity is 20 years less than someone working in a coal mine.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.

The disparity between what people said life was and what I knew it to be unnerved me at times, but I swore that nothing would ever make me say life should be anything.

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet. This story deals with gentlefolk, or with those who are obliged to pretend that they are gentlefolk.

To alter poor people until they became exactly like the people who were not so poor