Quotes About Disparity

There's a whole generation that's retiring. It is unconscionable that the average salary of a lawyer is $79,000 a year and the average salary of a teacher is $39,000 a year.

I'm an enemy of what I call 'computer theology.' There's a class conflict out there. There's a techno-elite that lives in a different world.

It is dangerously destabilizing to have half the world on the cutting edge of technology while the other half struggles on the bare edge of survival.

We are all having different experiences.

there is no universal standard of well-being.

And this all causes her to wonder at the disparity between the silk dresses and the natural postures of the body, and to think: How far, HOW FAR, we are willing to go to pretend we are not of the body at all.

Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards used to claim that there are "two Americas," the rich and the poor. If Democrats have their way, there will be two Latin Americas, both of them poor. You're living in one of them right now.

the disparity between Eastern and Western spirituality resembles that found between Eastern and Western medicine—with the arrow of embarrassment pointing in the opposite direction

What agreement is there between the hyena and the dog? and what peace between the rich and the poor?BibleEcclus,xiii. 18.2.

On average, individuals with high income are in a better mood than people with lower income, but the difference is about a third as large as most people expect.

twice as many people in India have access to cell phones as to latrines.

After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy.

all right we are two nations

Those who consume far more resources than they require destroy the life chances of those whose survival depends upon consuming more.

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

Hollywood large is so different than real-life large.

The five marks of the Roman decaying culture: Concern with displaying affluence instead of building wealth; Obsession with sex and perversions of sex; Art becomes freakish and sensationalistic instead of creative and original; Widening disparity between very rich and very poor; Increased demand to live off the state.

There is an enormous abyss between subject and object.

History tells us that inequality soars when societies develop.

In the US, the more liberal a city's politics, the higher the rate of inequality.

The advantages of being raised on the right side of the tracks are too implicit to be enumerated. It is the few who have escaped who grasp the full impotence of those they have left behind. After

GDP numbers insist we are doing well, at a time when half the country is suffering from personal recessions.

GDP numbers insist we are doing well, at a time when half the country is suffering from personal recessions. The world's most informative graph is the Elephant Chart.

A person who has dissimilitude thinking at home can make society stinky, not perfumery; where such a majority exists; love, brotherhood, justice, and equality become obsolete, and humanity dies there.