Quotes About Disparity

Orang-orang yang lebih kaya akan menjadi lebih kaya, dan orang-orang miskin akan dikatakan mereka lebih kaya tapi akan sangat yakin bahwa mereka tidak kaya.

Between the whores' world and God's world, like a river dividing two empires, stretches an intense smell of urine.

I have one rave New York Times review framed next to a flop Los Angeles Times review. And it's for the same show. These people watched the same show. That's what happens. They love it, they hate it.

The extreme disparity between the outsider's and insider's perspectives arises because they have vastly different conceptions of time. Although the point is far from obvious, we'll now see what appears as endless time to an outsider appears as endless space, at each moment of time, to an insider.

and it is these differences that are classified as the particular

We have thousands and thousands of people living homeless on the streets of our cities at the same time that we have men and women earning millions of dollars a year running companies that make products whose continued usage will ruin our health, our environment, and our values. The irony is incredible. It's obscene.

In Ankh-Morpork even the shit have a street to itself, said Detritus, awe and wonder in his voice. Truly, this a land of opportunity.

what people mean to do and what is done are two different things

A dollar for a human bought a loaf of bread that was eaten in a few bites. The same dollar for Wee Mad Arthur bought the same-sized loaf, but it was food for a week and could then be further hollowed out and used as a bedroom.

We have created a society in which the rich become richer and the poor become poorer, and in which we are so caught up in our own immediate problems that we cannot afford to be aware of what is going on with the rest of the human family or our planet Earth. In my mind I see a group of chickens in a cage disputing over a few seeds of grain, unaware that in a few hours they will all be killed.

Who were these people with money, and what had they done that they should enjoy so much luxury, where others as good seemingly as themselves had nothing? And wherein did these latter differ so greatly from the successful?

The gap between junior curling and men's curling is just huge.

Selling $500 shoes when you make $12 an hour is just an awkward economic juxtaposition.

Kansas City, well, part of the town's pretty cool, and part of the town is not. But it's gonna be that way no matter where you go.

What separates developing countries from developed countries is as much a gap in knowledge as a gap in resources.

It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.

What I worry about is the lack of understanding in society around the world that there is a divide in the world between those who have and those who do not.

we steal with our eyes closed to the conditions in which the poor, who make our affluence possible, live. We covet what our neighbours have and want more of the same.

Where Evangeline came to below his shoulder, Gail was a head taller. An easier distance from which to spit in his eye, he thought spitefully.

the world has become extraordinarily unequal: as of 2015, the world's richest 1 percent now own more wealth than all the other 99 percent put together.

Between 1988 and 2008, the majority of countries worldwide saw rising inequality within their borders, resulting in a hollowing out of their middle classes. Over those same 20 years, global inequality fell slightly overall (mostly thanks to falling poverty rates in China), but it increased significantly at the extremes.

three quarters of the world's poorest people now live in middle-income countries. Not because they have moved but because their nations have become better off overall and so have been reclassified by the World Bank as middle-income. Many of those countries, however—including the largest such as China, India, Indonesia and Nigeria—are becoming more unequal, which explains how they can simultaneously be home to most of the world's poorest people.

The most recent estimate is that a mere 400 individuals in the United States now own more wealth than the bottom 180 million Americans taken together -- a degree of wealth concentration that is accurately, not rhetorically, properly designated medieval.

Equality is a worthy ideal pursued in the name of justice and human rights. In the real world of results, however, things are never equal.