Quotes About Disparity

If we compare the gap separating rich and poor, whether measured by overall assets or annual income, we find that in every continental European country as well as in Great Britain and the US, the gap shrank dramatically in the generation following 1945.

The consequences are clear. There has been a collapse in intergenerational mobility:

The wider the spread between the wealthy few and the impoverished many, the worse the social problems: a statement which appears to be true for rich and poor countries alike.

What matters is not how affluent a country is but how unequal it is.

The wider the spread between the wealthy few and the impoverished many, the worse the social problems: a statement which appears to be true for rich and poor countries alike. What matters is not how affluent a country is but how unequal it is.

My bad foot's a long way from my brain.

In terms of per capita income, the bottom half in America is better off. However, in terms of social progress, the average income of the bottom half of the Chinese people is rising much faster, albeit from a lower starting point.

In his book Oligarchy, American political scientist Jeffrey Winters provides a stunning illustration of just how dire US inequality has become: the average wealth of the richest one hundred American households relative to that of the bottom 90 percent approximates the wealth disparity between a Roman senator and a slave at the height of the Roman Empire.

It was about a class system, the fact that the underclass, Oskar and Albin, always slipped off the roofs of the rich folk.

increasing inequalities might emerge between tech-savvy individuals, who understand and control these technologies, and less knowledgeable individuals, who are passive users of a technology they do not understand.

Olen tutkinut asiaa useamman vuoden, ja havaintojeni perusteella uskon vakaasti, että ihmiset eivät ole tasa-arvoisia, jotkut ovat typeryksiä ja toiset eivät ja että sen määrää luonto eivätkä kulttuuriset tekijät.

Grappling with America's trenchant refusal to open up the doors to quality education, Time announced that the "gap between what the Negro now achieves and what he might achieve indicates that he is the nation's most wasted resource."122

Quando eu vou na cidade tenha a impressão que estou no paraizo. Acho sublime ver aquelas mulheres e crianças tão bem vestidas. Tão diferentes da favela. As casas com seus vasos de flores e cores variadas. Aquelas paisagens há de encantar os olhos dos visitantes de São Paulo, que ignoram que a cidade mais afamada da America do Sul está enferma. Com as suas ulceras. As favelas.

Será que o Brasil vai ser sempre bom como dizem eles? Por que será que o estrangeiro chega pobre aqui e fica rico? E nós, os naturais, aqui nascemos, aqui nós vivemos e morremos pobres?".

Everything is evened up in the world. The rich have their ice in the summer but the poor get theirs in the winter.

How can they be that poor, when our kingdom is so rich?

Half the world knows not how the other half lives.

There are two extremes to be avoided, one is the disposition of the rich to aggrandize themselves at the expense of the poor. . . . The other is . . . the anxiety of poor people to get possessions of the accumulations of the rich, and to have them divided among them, and a general leveling take place.

That's one way we differ, Jaime and I. He's taller as well, you may have noticed.

Reality and 'what should be' are two brothers who live very far apart.

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horseraces.

The rich would have to eat money, but luckily the poor provide food.

The poor will always be with you.