Quotes About Disparity

There is a good deal of solemn cant about the common interests of capital and labor. As matters stand, their only common interest is that of cutting each others throat.

In human affairs, the distance between the leaders and the average is a constant.

La belleza no se halla repartida de forma democrática.

It made no sense naturewise—owls and songbirds work different shifts, and even if they didn't they would still never be friends.

I am not as ingenious as these people. No one is more ingenious than the poor, wherever you find them. When you are poor every stage has to be thought through. Wealth is the opposite. With wealth you get to be thoughtless.

I thought of that William Gibson quote: "The future is already here—it's just not evenly distributed yet.

Extreme inequality fractures communities, and after a while the cracks gape so wide the whole edifice comes tumbling down.

From my experience, I can affirm that I don't really know how the women see the world like, but it seems to be quite different from how men do.

One album has absolutely nothing to do with the other.

We're not all supposed to think alike.

What a handsome pair! Strange thoughts assail me as it becomes plain to me that these two, so perfectly matched in birth, wealth, and mental superiority, live entirely apart, and have nothing in common but their name. The show of unity is only for the world.

El contraste entre un lujo exagerado y una exagerada miseria es lo que impresiona antes que nada.

You know what I have noticed? And this is really sad. Flying first class is less scary than flying coach. They speak to you and they're so nice to you and they want to help you and they know you want a drink before the plane takes off. And they bring it to you without asking. If you're sitting in coach and hoping for a drink, good luck.

But these are sad times, the 'prentices wanting to be masters, and every little tradesman wanting to be a Senator, and every dirty little urchin thinking he can give impudence to his betters!

A pauper in the midst of wealth.

the more people possess, the greater their losses; so the rich are not as carefree as the poor. The higher people rise, the faster they fall, so the upper classes are not as secure as the common people. Association with city people is not as good as friendship with elderly peasants. Calling on upper-class mansions is not as good as getting to know peasant homes.

Certainly, the new day was at hand when President Harding took office. The amazing disparity between the job and the man has the right twenties flavour: it was an era of contradictions. Harding was not intelligent or firm or hard-working enough to be a successful President. His other personal weaknesses hardly mattered. True, he committed adultery in a coat-cupboard at the White House because he was too afraid of his wife to take his mistress to more comfortable quarters;

Con todo y el atraso de la región, el hecho curioso es que en la Nicaragua de inicios del siglo XIX había menos hambre que en la Francia de Víctor Hugo y más paz que en la convulsa Europa.

There are forty-three countries in the world that are poorer than Pakistan on a per capita GDP basis45 but twenty-four of them send more children to primary school than Pakistan does.

as different as earth and sky but bound by some mysterious connection

I think the difference between America and Australia is very simple. It's 20 million people versus 350 million.

My brother is a policeman; my sister's an English teacher. When I hear what they make versus what I make, it's ridiculous.

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing. It's not politically viable; it's not morally right; it's just not going to happen.