Quotes About Disparity

In this city, the rich had some room, and the middle class had less, and the poor had none.

The hugely uneven distribution of wealth itself was forcing the country toward a boiling point. Add

It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that.

for she could never think of anything to say to Clarissa, though she liked her. She had lots of fine qualities; but they had nothing in common - she and Clarissa.

The boss's got all he needs, certainly, Eats swell, Owns a lotta houses, Goes vacationin', Breaks strikes, Runs politics, bribes police, Pays off congress, And struts all over the earth-- But me, I ain't never had enough to eat. Me, I ain't never been warm in winter. Me, I ain't never known security-- All my life, been livin' hand to mouth, Hand to mouth.

I live on a park bench, You, Park Avenue. Hell of a distance Between us two. I beg a dime for dinner-- You got a butler and maid. But I'm wakin' up! Say, ain't you afraid That I might, just maybe, In a year or two, Move on over To Park Avenue?

God to Hungry Child Hungry child, I didn't make this world for you. You didn't buy any stock in my railroad, You didn't invest in my corporation. Where are your shares in standard oil? I made the world for the rich And the will-be-rich And the have-always-been-rich. Not for you, Hungry child.

Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history off the world have so many of those same people felt themselves so poor.

This is a silly place. Half the world has no clean water. The other half has so much that they pooh in it.

Nothing works for everybody.

We're living through war, but where they're living it's peacetime, and we're all in the same country.

Not everyone has to get the same things all the time in order for life to be fair.

yacht club tastes and a rubber ducky budget.

what could be less satisfying than stealing from someone so endowed that they never even noticed what you'd taken?

Being allowed to do something and knowing how to do it are not the same thing.

Being allowed to do something and knowing how to do it are not the same thing." Moody

Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.

Stupidity is the prerogative of the wealthy. Pauper's field is crammed with smart guys.

He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.

Cadogan Place is the one slight bond that joins two great extremes; it is the connecting link between the aristocratic pavements of Belgrave Square, and the barbarism of Chelsea.

There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war or famine, the rich get richer and poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it.

Imagine the earth's population of six billion people reduced to just one hundred representatives. Statistically, that makes 30 white, 70 non-white. It means 6 people own 59% of the wealth and they all live in North America. 80 are in substandard housing. One has an education. One owns a computer. Don't blame me if it all sounds crazy.

Consciously or unconsciously, teachers tend to focus their attention on learners who seem to be doing well. That extra attention increases the odds that they will, while the corresponding neglect of other learners leaves them further and further behind

For more than twenty years, I have been seeking a way to be both rational and spiritual. I have been looking for a ray of hope in an otherwise-compartmentalized world in which people segregate religious aspirations and rationality in the hope of not having to resolve the glaring gap between the two. It's a gap that seems almost impossible to bridge, but I refuse to accept that disparity.