Quotes About Disparity

There's no happiness in a situation where there's disparity.

The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.

We can't stop a baby in Africa from starving to death... but we can afford enough technology and weaponry to blow the world up a million times over.

Advocates for a single line of progress encounter their greatest stumbling block when they try to find a smooth link between the apparently disparate designs of the invertebrates and vertebrates.

The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education.

Everyone's life experience is different.

It's just dumb: how you can have the number 1 record in Los Angeles and not have the number 1 record in New York? It's crazy.

We, as actors, see luxury around us, but when we step out, we see the struggle and reality which people are going through.

Unequal prosperity is better than shared poverty.

Half the world is redoing its kitchens, the other half is starving.

We have growing wealth creation and growing social inequality. Powerful

In America, the rich man tries to pretend that the poor man is his equal in every respect but money, which is simply not true.

The laws are like spiders' webs: just as spiders' webs catch the weaker creatures but let the stronger ones through, so the humble and poor are restricted by the laws, but the rich and powerful are not bound by them (Valerius Maximus Memorable Deeds and Sayings 7.2 ext. 14).

the differences among them were great, but the reasons they had come to be so different were slight.

There are more doctors in a single North Shore medical building than in one entire West Side ghetto.

Out of forty-eight boys twenty had never seen the Brooklyn Bridge that was scarcely five minutes' walk away, three only had been in Central Park, fifteen had known the joy of a ride in a horse-car. The street, with its ash-barrels and its dirt, the river that runs foul with mud, are their domain.

Covid-19 vaccine and medicine will be only effective in making rich people further richer especially pharma cos and poor population more poorer.

Lockdown simply means enjoyment for rich and harassment for poor

The space between the idea of something and its reality is always wide and deep and dark. The longer they are kept apart—idea of thing, reality of thing—the wider the width, the deeper the depth, the thicker and darker the darkness.

In 1980, the wage of a worker in the financial sector was roughly comparable to the wages of workers with the same qualifications in other sectors. By 2006, a person in the financial sector was making 70 percent more.

America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.

Then again, I don't suppose the very poor care much about the doings of the rich, either. The gulf is too wide. Not many have been on both sides of it, as we have.

In contrast to Marxism, with its emphasis on class struggle between owners and workers, modernization traces conflict to the disparity between modernizing forces and traditional groups who are left behind or resist incorporation into the modern world.

The world is an unjust place.