Quotes About Disparity

by the second decade of the twentieth century the gap in living standards between London and Beijing was around six to one, compared with two to one in the eighteenth century.36

Everyone likes different things. Not everyone's the same. Not everyone runs their mouth. Not everyone can fight.

In my own view, the life expectancy of Native Americans in the United States is one of the really great moral crises that we face.

I was very sensitive to the environment around, and this disparity in people, seeing beggars and laborers not paid well, used to disturb me. So these emotions in these roles came very naturally to me.

The poor population in the United States—15 percent of the total population and a disturbing 21.8 percent for children under the age of eighteen—is expanding.

He looked as incongruous as a rose in a bowl of brussels sprouts.

The gap between rich and poor was not just one of wealth but of accountability.

You can't pour a pint of bitter into a cocktail glass.

gap between rich and poor was not just one of wealth but of accountability

So I'm like getting some perspective now - like when you're a kid and you think it sucks that you have to eat hydrogenated peanut butter on your PBJ, and then you see one of those starving commercials kids with flies in their eyes, who don't even have a sandwich - and you're all, 'Well, that sucks.

There are more billionaires today than ever before," Jim declared. "We are talking about wealth that we've never seen before. And the only time that I hear talk of shrinking resources among people like us, among academics, is when we talk about things that have to do with poor people.

asymmetric whoop-ass

esa desproporción monstruosa entre el enanismo de su complexión y la dimensión

Cannes was thought of as a playground for the rich; a city of lovely villas and gardens, a paradise of fashionable elegance. Few stopped to realize what a mass of labor was required to maintain that cleanliness and charm: not merely the servants who dwelt on the estates, but porters and truckdrivers, scrubwomen and chambermaids, kitchen-workers, food-handlers; and scores of obscure occupations which the rich never heard about. These people were housed in slum warrens

He had managed to get the good things in life, somehow—but why at least could he not go off and enjoy them, without coming to taunt the poor with their misfortune?

He emphasized the huge gap between the mental abilities of apes and humans and pointed out (mistakenly) that the human brain had a unique anatomical structure called the 'hippocampus minor', which he said was entirely absent in apes.

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.

there is always more wretchedness below than there is brotherhood above

Listen, Monsieur Director, here's what I think. Obviously this is wrong. There are twenty-six of you in five or six small rooms; there are three of us in space enough for sixty. That is wrong, I assure you. You have my house and I am in yours. Give me back mine and this will be your home.

But now she saw what she had never dared to see before: this love of hers was one-sided. She was the one who took care; he was the one who took.

averages: a few times I've been in rooms with a hundred ordinary people and my acquaintance Warren Buffett, which meant the average person's net worth in those rooms

In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave.

war, like fortune, doesn't touch all folk with the same hand.