Quotes About Disparity

In 1994 the median net worth of whites was $94,500, compared with $19,000 for people of color. By 2005 white median income increased 48% (to $140,500), compared with nonwhite median income, which increased only 31% (to $24,900).

In 1980 the differential between the richest and poorest country in the world was 5:1 as measured by gross national product (GNP). In 2001 the differential between the richest and the poorest country in the world was 390:1 as measured by GNP.

Medical statistics will be our standard of measurement: we will weigh life for life and see where the dead lie thicker, among the workers or among the privileged.

Living in Venice, it's hard to determine the real parody of inhumanity. On the one hand, there are the homeless hordes, a teaming mass of virtual zombies swelling the streets whose daily business amounts to ruffling through trash, pissing on corners and chasing pets. On the other hand, there is the endless stream of bourgeois stiffs coming and going from home, restaurants and shops. They are zombies in their own right who pretend the homeless don't exist.

So the issue is not character flaws among the elites. The issue, rather, is a system in which some people sleep on beds made of ivory while others end up being sold for the price of a pair of sandals.

Better never means better for everyone, he says. It always means worse, for some.

Better? I say, in a small voice. How can he think this is better? Better never means better for everyone, he says. It always means worse, for some.

Whut gempmums says an' what dey thinks is two diffunt things.

Today, over half of China's undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of America's undergraduates pursue these schools.

It's disgraceful and embarrassing that the highest technology in a typical city high school in this country is the metal detector the students pass through at the front door.

We have rapidly increasing technology, which is making life very good for people who are good at using words, and not so good for people who are not good at using words.

All the drug dealers and gang members with whom I dealt had [a cell phone] long before any police officer I knew did.

Death from hunger happened a hundred yards from death from obesity.

And it is a great fact of history that the most mediocre and well-meaning imbeciles can strike down the mighty with surprising effectiveness when there is such a huge disparity of souls.

The disparity between outward appearances and inner disposition had disturbed me all my life.

He'd taken unfair advantage—he knew far more about women's bodies than she did, even though she lived in one.

Oamenii diferi?i vor lucruri diferite.

William Gibson has said, "The future is already here—it's just not very evenly distributed.

As a dirt farm in the Tennessee mountains, this place was a ticket to starvation, but as a retirement community for the Knoxville country club set, it was a gold mine.

I have touched upon how well compensated British bureaucrats in India were, but what made things worse was how imbalanced their salaries were when compared with their local counterparts. In the first decades of the twentieth century, J. T. Sunderland observed that the difference in salaries and emoluments was so great that 8,000 British officers earned £13,930,554, while 130,000 Indians in government service were collectively paid a total of £3,284,163.

The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.

Life has very little even ground.

I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.

If life were like a competitive race, some people would be given a flying start and others would line up with weights tied to their ankles.