Quotes About Disparity

On the eve of the war, when tsarist Russia had attained the highest point of its prosperity, the national income per capita was eight to ten times less than in the United States—a fact which is not surprising when you consider that four-fifths of the self-supporting population of Russia was occupied with agriculture, while in the United States, for every one engaged in agriculture, two and one-half were engaged in industry.

In every society, these resources are allocated unequally.

There is a war between the rich and poor, a war between the man and the woman. There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn't.

Scattava subito, pregiudizialmente, quali che fossero le persone che le rappresentavano, una irriducibile disparità di punti di vista tra le due istituzioni: l'arma dei carabinieri, il corpo di polizia. Un lungo, storico contenzioso li divideva: e tutti i cittadini che ci cadevano in mezzo finivano col dibattervisi drammaticamente

She marched along, wondering how it could be that some people had to work their fingers to the bone and risk their lives in order to make a living and others could just sail around in the lap of luxury.

Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.

Alas ! the contrast between us, and what We can create; That man should be so little in himself, His works so great.

There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.

It's one thing to recognize that the gap between the rich and everybody else is growing like a cancer; it's another thing to come up with useful solutions.

I have a feeling that life as a billionaire in Silicon Valley is very different than the life that you or I would lead. Unless you're a billionaire; I don't know your financial situation.

I live in the social purgatory of the San Fernando Valley, while my eldest daughter is bused to a charter school in the fantasy land of Bel Air.

I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value.

Why you white man have so much cargo and we New Guineans have so little? (asked Yali)

The people whose children had to walk barefoot to school killed the people who could buy shoes for theirs.

Yet we promise developing countries that, if they will only adopt good policies, like honest government and free market economies, they too can become like the First World today. That promise is utterly impossible, a cruel hoax. We are already having difficulty supporting a First World lifestyle even now, when only 1 billion people out of the world's 7.5 billion people enjoy it.

This very unequal distribution of wild ancestral species among the continents became an important reason why Eurasians, rather than peoples of other continents, were the ones to end up with guns, germs, and steel.

Japan's male/female pay differential for full-time employees is the third highest (exceeded only by South Korea and Estonia) among 35 rich industrial countries. A Japanese woman employee is paid on average only 73% of a man employee at the same level, compared to 85% for the average rich industrial country, ranging up to 94% for New Zealand.

Japan is the one with the most equal division of wealth, and the one with proportionately the fewest billionaires in its population; the U.S. lies far at the opposite extreme in both respects.

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

One thing you notice about progress, kid, is that it doesn't happen to everyone.

Equality is what does not exist among mortals.

What one reads in the newspaper and what one sees on the street are absolutely not the same.

In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.

We have a choice: we can allow the growing disparity between rich and poor to continue unimpeded, or we can take action to budget responsibly and strengthen and expand the middle class. If we want this economy - and this country - to meet its full potential, the choice is simple.