Quotes About Disparity

It turns out that the rich are much better placed to feed at the public trough. The poor get crumbs.

You put a tuxedo on me, it's like putting a saddle on a hog.

Did you ever get the feeling that the world is a tuxedo and you're a pair of brown shoes?

Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.

It is incomprehensible that drug companies still get away with charging Americans twice as much, or more, than citizens of Canada or Europe for the exact same drugs manufactured by the exact same companies.

Many of my colleagues are blissfully unaware of the global percentage of people who cannot EVER go to a movie theater, let alone with an entire family. I do not want to make movies for the rich.

A rich man's war and a poor man's fight.

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

At the outset, at least, all three groups had something else to recommend them, as well: They were headquartered 3,000 miles away from the East Side of Manhattan.

When I went to live in South Africa, I immediately began to understand what went wrong. Because here was a place supposed to be under apartheid - I arrived there in 1991 - but here a black person had more say and had more influence over his white government than an average Kenyan had over the Moi government.

At the outset of the creation of the euro in 1999, it was expected that the southern eurozone economies would behave like those in the north; the Italians would behave like Germans. They didn't. Instead, northern Europe fell into subsidizing southern Europe's excess consumption, that is, its current account deficits.

All I can say is if one was tea, the other coffee. If one was smoke, the other cigar. There is absolutely nothing in common between them except they both fought to win.

It was a different feeling: it is hard to focus on a conversation, especially when it is mathematical, when you have just personally earned several hundreds of times the annual salary of the researcher trying to tell you that you are wrong, by betting against his representation of the world.

Just look at how different the large stone is from the pebbles:

What a contrast with the other traders who lacked polish!

Winner-take-all effects are worsening:

Take a population of 10 people, 9 having a net worth of $ 30,000 and 1 having a net worth of $ 1,000. The average net worth is $ 27,100 and 9 out of 10 people will have above average wealth.

those hidden asymmetries that do not immediately come to mind

it seems that we notice differences between versions rather than commonalities.

the distance between opinions is remarkably narrower than the distance between the average of opinions and truth.

Just like the income of the driver compared to that of bank employee.

Today, a few take almost everything; the rest, next to nothing.

her hull might be compared to a fat man on the short end of a lopsided seesaw