Quotes About Disparity

For every millionaire who owns a $1,000 suit, there are at least six owners who have annual incomes in the $50,000 to $200,000 range but who are not millionaires.

A wise professor once reminded her graduate students in psychology that "there is more variation within a group than between groups.

The welfare state contributes to this disparity by (1) reducing the need for people at the bottom to earn income and (2) by penalizing their earning of income, since higher income leads to a reduction in eligibility for government benefits.

Geography is not egalitarian.

With blacks as with whites, the redneck culture has been a less achieving culture. Moreover, that culture has affected a higher proportion of the black population than of the white population, since only about one-third of all whites lived in the antebellum South, while nine-tenths of all blacks did.

when the monetary value of output per capita in Nigeria is less than 2 percent of that in the United States-and in Tanzania less than 1 percent°~-that clearly cannot all be due to exchange rates.

What seems a more tenable conclusion is that, as economic historian David S. Landes put it, The world has never been a level playing field.

While some theorists may tend to discuss people in the abstract, actual flesh-and-blood human beings differ enormously in their behavior, not just from individual to individual, but from group to group and from one culture to another. Various tests of honesty reveal very striking differences.

she had seen the poverty of the rich and the wealth of the poor, and the value of bringing the rich and poor together

For example, "the richest Americans, those earning more than $ 10 million annually, reported levels of personal happiness only slightly greater than the office staffs and blue-collar workers they employ.

Percentage of Population* Percentage of Private Wealth Number of People Top 1% of Population 35.6% 3,000,000 people Next 19% of Population 51.6% 57,000,000 people Bottom 80% of Population 12.8% 240,000,000 people

The top 1 percent of all U.S. households owns 38.3 percent of all stocks. The top 10 percent owns roughly 81 percent. The bottom 90 percent owns just over 18 percent of the stocks held by households in the United States (Table 11.5). Fully 50 percent of U.S. households own no stocks. Even among those who do hold stocks, most own them through pension and retirement funds, where they are not accessible for general use.

La tierra por en medio se dice cuando dos se separan a dos pueblos distantes, pero, bien mirado, también se podría decir cuando entre el terreno en donde uno pisa y el otro duerme hay veinte pies de altura.

This is not something you or I do. This is something the poor do so that the rich get better drugs.

I look at Ben now. And again I wonder how it is that we can feel so many of the same things and be so utterly different.

Not one country in all the world has eliminated its economic participation [gender] gap — not one.

Ongemerkt had zich binnen onze hoogontwikkelde samenleving een nieuwe tweedeling ontwikkeld: die tussen snellen en langzamen.

I don't see how My Fair Lady and Frankenstein are the same. Oh, wait a minute. Yes I do.

What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.

Esta violencia es el resultado de una guerra perpetua contra los pobres.

Había dos naciones compartiendo el mismo espacio, la pequeña nación de la afluencia y las ínfulas cosmopolitas y la gran nación de todos los demás.

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.