Quotes About Disparity

Different isn't wrong. It's just different.

There's no scandal involved," she said airily. "I have no connection with you whatsoever. I have nothing to do with you. You are a thimble filled with water next to my ocean. You are a grain of sand to my beach. You are a tiny star in the sky. You're nothing to me.

Diligence in some compels idleness in others.

A house may be large or small; as long as the surrounding houses are equally small it satisfies all social demands for a dwelling. If a palace rises besides the little house, the little house shrinks into a hut.

Tracy thought she must be missing something, it felt like the same world as ever to her. The rich getting richer, the poor getting poorer, kids everywhere falling through the cracks. The Victorians would have recognized it. People just watched a lot more TV and found celebrities interesting, that was all that was different.

All men do not, in fine, admire or love the same thing.

Because women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar men make. Those pennies add up to real money.

Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding.

This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.

All men are created unequal.

It's something I've always kicked around, not doing the eBook but the Rich Man, Poor Man thing.

Why is the 'average man' so far below average?

See, the Black man gotta fly to get to something the white man can walk to.

Not at all similar are the race of the immortal gods and the race of men who walk upon the earth.

Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.

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.

I'm a mom. I'm from Ethiopia. I gave birth in the U.S. and had all the proper care available to me. If I had given birth in Ethiopia - I don't know if I might have even survived it.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

Of course money buys happiness. You ever seen a homeless person skip? The answer to that riddle's no. They're not allowed.

Money and art are far apart.

Rich people are poor people with money.

Look, Congress has allocated more money to finance the upcoming Iraqi elections than it has for the American elections. There's something wrong with that.

America is like some crazed, bewildered, rich giant bumbling around in a poor area with his pockets stuffed with money, and lots of weapons - just throwing stuff around.

The rich are different than you and me: they have more money and they have more power.