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Quotes About Disparity

The poor always ye have with you.
~ Bible
The pleasures of the rich are bought with the tears of the poor.
~ Thomas Fuller
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
~ Jonathan Swift
What one man does, another fails to do; what's fit for me may not be fit for you.
~ Anonymous
Half the world does not know how the other half lives.
~ Francois Rabelais
There is more difference within the sexes than between them.
~ Ivy Compton-Burnett
Asymmetrie [macht] Menschen unglücklich.
~ J.M. Coetzee
'Twilight' and 'Remember Me' couldn't be more different.
~ Emilie de Ravin
Me and Janet really are two different people.
~ Michael Jackson
I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same.
~ Jock Sturges
No two people see things the same way.
~ Jim Lehrer
You couldn't find two people more different than my mother and I. There are a thousand things about me that she fought against.
~ Isabel Allende
Everybody is not born with a silver spoon in their mouth. There are only a very small percentage of those types of people, you know what I mean?
~ Booker T
The typical family of four with employer-based health insurance is not the same as the typical family of four. It's better-off.
~ Timothy Noah
Cell phones were more popular in Cambodia and Uganda because they didn't have phones. We had phones in this country, and we were very late to the table. They're going to adopt e-books much faster than we do.
~ Nicholas Negroponte
I agree that income disparity is the great issue of our time. It is even broader and more difficult than the civil rights issues of the 1960s. The '99 percent' is not just a slogan. The disparity in income has left the middle class with lowered, not rising, income, and the poor unable to reach the middle class.
~ Eleanor Holmes Norton
It's true across the U.K. that those who had least to do with causing the economic crisis are carrying the heaviest burden. That's unacceptable.
~ Johann Lamont
We live increasingly in a world of haves and have-nots, of gated communities next to ghettos, of extreme poverty and unbelievable riches. Some enjoy rights that are completely denied to others. Relative inequalities are exploding, and the world's poorest, despite all the advances of globalisation, may even be getting poorer.
~ Noreena Hertz
Sometimes you hear in the United States that in Columbia there is a war between rich and poor, between people that are defending the poor and the rich.
~ Ingrid Betancourt
It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.
~ Mark Twain
One world, one mankind cannot exist in the face of six, four or even two scales of values: We shall be torn apart by this disparity of rhythm, this disparity of vibrations.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.
~ Victor Hugo
Has every oyster a different taste?
~ Errol Flynn
Hard-core structural poverty has a counterpart at the apex: hard-core structural affluence.
~ Louis O. Kelso