Quotes About Disparity

For embezzlement actions that were similar to one another, one man was sentenced to 117 days in prison, while another was sentenced to 20 years.

At once I understood how very different the lives of the victorious were from the lives of the conquered.

Some cities have what I call a piñata problem: there is great wealth, but it's hanging from a high place, far away from the city commons. There are mansions on the outskirts of town filled with famous citizens, high-paid executives, and even a scattering of multinational CEOs. Meanwhile, the downtown could desperately use a capital influx but does not get one despite the opulence that encircles it.

De qué sirve ser rico si no tiene uno pobres a su alrededor para compadecerlos?

Hardly anybody is exactly normal in any way, just as one hundred tossed pennies will rarely come up exactly fifty heads and fifty tails.

Funny the way it is, if you think about it Somebody's going hungry and someone else is eating out. Funny the way it is, not right or wrong Somebody's heart is broken and it becomes your favorite song.

If your party serves the powerful and well-funded interests, and there's no limit to what you can spend, you have a permanent, structural advantage. We're averaging fifty-dollar checks in our campaign, and trying to ward off these seven- or eight-figure checks on the other side. That disparity is pretty striking, and so are the implications. In many ways, we're back in the Gilded Age. We have robber barons buying the government.

The attitude we have towards our personal pets as opposed to the animals that suffer under the factory farm is hypocritical and delusional.

For better or worse, the societies of the twenty-first century are likely to be more unequal than those we have lived in during the twentieth.

Incomes will become more unequal within jurisdictions and more equal between them.

The most serious and universal problem is the growing chasm between the richest and poorest people on earth. Citizens of the ten wealthiest countries are now seventy-five times richer than those who live in the ten poorest ones, and the separation is increasing every year, not only between nations but also within them.

Unequal societies are not only the most violent; they are also the least productive.

when unemployment is high, inequality rises. And when unemployment is low, inequality tends to fall.

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.

La más común y duradera fuente de fraccionamiento ha sido la variada y desigual distribución de la propiedad

They were a pair of white mice, I thought—only Kitsey was a spun-sugar, fairy-princess mouse whereas Andy was more the kind of luckless, anemic, pet-shop mouse you might feed to your boa constrictor.

He leaves and she thinks for the hundredth time that in their emotional life all these intelligent men use a level so much lower than anything they use for work, that they might be different creatures.

make sense out of a world that could produce trips to the moon and silicon chips and computer robots and satellites, yet never touch the impoverished hearts that could still torture, terrorize and kill without mercy or feeling.

Orangnya sama, topinya saja yang berbeda, ...

There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.

I grew up in Northern Ireland, in the middle of nowhere, and when you are poor, you are really poor. And when you are rich, you are very rich. This is not a new phenomenon.

It's not fair that people save and work and pay for phones from whatever funds they have, and other people get them for free.

There are 65 to 70 photography galleries in New York alone. In the U.K., there are no more than five, and they're all in London.

Part of this country's problem is that people from New York City - Wall Streeters - don't think about the little guy who can't afford things.