Quotes About Disparity

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

No one can say how long the process of human extinction might take, but as it proceeds, the same global order will prevail that always prevails: rich nations will find ways to protect themselves and make themselves comfortable, while the poor nations and the poor people of the planet will suffer.

I think it's true that the 1 Percent or the elite are living in a world of, maybe, excessive privilege, and they don't fully realize how much pain and suffering, how much anxiety exists out there.

The reality is that not only were we massively hit in 2008 when the bubble burst, and then we realized how deep the social gap, the economic gap in the world is between the super rich and the poor; also, we realized how impacted the environment has been. So there's been a physical consequence of that.

Is it because we're having so much fun at home we've forgotten the world? Is it because we're so rich and the rest of the world's so poor and we just don't care if they are? I've heard rumors; the world is starving, but we're well fed. Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much?

As medical care has improved, life expectancy has increased—on average, in the United States, by some two years between 1990 and 2000. But for the poorest group of Americans there has been no progress, and for poor women life expectancy has actually been declining.

Nuestra economía no ha funcionado bien para vastas porciones del país, pero entretanto ha sido inmensamente gratificante para los que están en la cúpula. Sin duda, esta brecha cada vez más profunda es la raíz del actual dilema del país y el de muchos otros países avanzados.

Tercero, no hay que confundir la riqueza de una nación con la riqueza de determinados individuos en ese país.

Some thirty years ago, the top 1 percent of income earners received only 12 percent of the nation's income.13

What America has been experiencing in recent years is the opposite of trickle-down economics: the riches accruing to the top have come at the expense of those down below.21

over the last three decades those with low wages (in the bottom 90 percent) have seen a growth of only around 15 percent in their wages, while those in the top 1 percent have seen an increase of almost 150 percent and the top 0.1 percent of more than 300 percent.27 Meanwhile

the six heirs to the Wal-Mart empire command wealth of $69.7 billion, which is equivalent to the wealth of the entire bottom 30 percent of U.S. society.

Oxfam found that the top 1 percent of the world now owned nearly half the world's wealth— and are on track to own as much of the rest of the 99 percent combined by 2016.

Some Promised Land. The honey was there, but the milk we brought in with our goats. To people in California, God gives a magnificent coastline, a movie industry, and Beverly Hills. To us He gives sand. To Cannes He gives a plush film festival. We get the PLO. Our winters are rainy, our summers hot. To people who didn't know how to wind a wristwatch He gives underground oceans of oil. To us He gives hernia, piles, and anti-Semitism.

Milo's mustache was unfortunate because the separated halves never matched.

Actually although they can be connected, the two are very different things. Vine's

In truth, poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

The full reality has many layers, which is why it took a book to unravel. But here's the first clue: the male-female pay gap is not a gap between men and women; it's a gap between moms and dads. Or more precisely, between men and women's work-life decisions when they become moms and dads.

There will always be the lucky well and the unlucky sick, but the division should never be determined by privilege—intellectual or otherwise. Among

Their neatly barbered hair and tailored coats and silk ties contrasted strikingly with

If you share my frustration with the disparity between the church as Scripture talks about her and what we see reflected in our religious institutions, you're not alone. You're standing in a long line that includes the likes of Francis of Assisi, John Wycliffe, Martin Luther, John Wesley, and nameless others who dared to ask the difficult questions and struggled with the uncomfortable answers.

There are no differences without comparisons."

Some people own the beach and others don't know the sea."

counties are different from other counties for a reason, that there must be a cause that explains this difference. As we shall see, however