Quotes About Disparity

New Orleans, it was often observed, was the first American metropolis to build an opera house, but the last to build a sewage system.

My granddad used to say, "If everybody liked the same thing, they'd all be after your grandma."

You have 62 people worth the amount the bottom three and a half billion people are worth. Sixty-two people! You could put them all in one bloody bus… then crash it!

Unlike magnets, opposites do not necessarily attract; sometimes they merely bash one another to death.

Not all gays respond to the same stuff. Would Alexander the Great have loved Auntie Mame?

The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to work in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast.

But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter of the law was not as important as who held the power in any real-life situation.

You call this progress, because you have motor cars and telephones and flying machines and a thousand potions to make you smell better? And people sleeping on the streets?

While from 1922 to 1929 real wages in manufacturing went up per capita 1.4 percent a year, the holders of common stocks gained 16.4 percent a year. Six million families (42 percent of the total) made less than $1,000 a year. One-tenth of 1 percent of the families at the top received as much income as 42 percent of the families at the bottom, according to a report of the Brookings Institution. Every

From the same prolific womb of governmental injustice we breed two classes—paupers and millionaires….

It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat shit and die.

Briony began to understand the chasm that lay between an idea and its execution

And there was something I've since noticed over the years—the mountain range that separates the naked from the clothed man. Two men on one passport.

Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and the rest of the Ivy League are worthy institutions, to be sure, but they're not known for educating large numbers of poor young people.

When I was younger, there was a huge gap between what I wanted to do and what I could do as an idol.

All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest.

It's true that globalization, with all its fantastic improvements in the world and the technological progress linked to it, has increased inequality at country level, especially inside countries. And there are people that were left behind - people, sectors, regions - that has created a sense of frustration in the rust belts of the world.

General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others.

The extremes of opulence and of want are more remarkable, and more constantly obvious, in [Great Britain] than in any other place that I ever saw.

There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and Portuguese settlements.

Any time I do something, I want to remember this is what separates me from everybody else.

There's nothing worse than putting two similar shows back-to-back. Viewers don't want to watch one show and then sit through another half-hour of almost the same thing.