Quotes About Disparity

One person's Utopia usually means another person's hell. We live in a state of uncertainty, not just in Northern Ireland, but by virtue of being human.

Nowhere is the gap between rich and poor wider, nowhere are the rich richer and the poor poorer, than in those societies that do not permit the free market to operate." – Milton and Rose Friedman, Free to Choose, Chapter 5

Today, there are three kinds of people: the have's, the have-not's, and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-have's.

Nowadays people can be divided into three classes - the haves the have-nots and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-haves.

It is impossible to capture the essence of love in writing, only its symptoms remain, the erotic absorption, the huge disparity between the times together and the times apart, the sense of being excluded.

Half the world is screaming for water and freedom when the other half is ordering cocktails and complaining about the service.

There's nothing surer,The rich get rich and the poor get poorer,In the meantime, in between time,Ain't we got fun.

The poor are poor because the rich are rich.

One man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.

Between us and you there is a great gulf fixed.

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very wise man once defined charity in the following way. He said it was poor people in rich countries giving money to rich people in poor countries

we only lived about fifteen minutes apart, which made the emotional distance between us all the more striking.

That's what's wrong with this country. You've got food banks in the north and down here in Hampstead there are people who don't think twice about spending a fortune on a fucking bottle of wine. It doesn't make sense.

In America there is a public library in every community. How many public libraries are there in Africa? Every day there are new books coming out and new ideas being discussed. But these new books and ideas don't reach Africa and we are being left behind.

I hate the fact that public schools like the one I went to have fantastic sports facilities, and state schools don't. That's not fair. That's outrageous.

Well, just as in the quality of public schools, there is massive disparity and the compensation given to the public school teachers.

The grim truth is that the rich are able to live as they do only because others are poor: there is neither the physical nor ecological space for everyone to pursue private luxury.

What is interesting to me about watching a show about the 1% is the world in which the 1% exists, meaning the flaws within the 99% that allow the 1% to exist.

You know, every city in Florida is different.

Black America has always felt itself divided into two classes: the mucky-mucks and the folk.

The best football players in the world still earn very little money compared to people who really earn money.

A footballer in three weeks earns what a dancer makes in a year.

In America, the top 1 percent led the country into war and economic devastation, leaving the less fortunate to fight for one and pay for both.