Quotes About Disparity

I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.

It's funny how feelings can be sometimes, someone can mean everything to you while you mean absolutely nothing to them.

It is an ironic fact that while half the world's population is dying as a result of diseases of poverty (largely starvation and infection) the other half is succumbing to diseases of affluence.

People who can see their neighbors with air-conditioning and cars, but who themselves live in shacks and often lack sewage disposal or a reliable water supply, have little to lose, and may find violence a rational option.

You're all at least a year behind and …' 'And whose fault is that?' Callum said with erupting bitterness. 'Until a few years ago we were only allowed to be educated up to the age of fourteen – and in noughts-only schools at that, which don't have a quarter of the money or resources that your schools have.

Sé que no tot és pur. Però hi ha una cosa que no puc suportar: el sentiment del meu propi benestar quan els altres, tants d'altres!, encara no han pogut trobar el seu.

All the drug dealers and gang members with whom I dealt had [a cell phone] long before any police officer I knew did.

Vad är det som skiljer oss åt? En ocean och två kontinenter eller åtta våningar?

The income ratio of the one-fifth of the world's population in the wealthiest countries to the one-fifth in the poorest went from 30 to 1 in 1960 to 74 to 1 in 1995.3 The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we could provide clean water, adequate diets, sanitation services, and basic education to every person on the planet.4

The rich get richer and the poor grow poorer. Yet, from a statistical standpoint, this is recorded as economic progress.

It's just a reminder that war favors the rich. The ones who can leave, do. The ones who can't, suffer." Kiva was silent for a moment. Then, "Fuck you for having a conscience, Tomi.

There's no but. You're right. It's just a reminder that war favors the rich. The ones who can leave, do. The ones who can't, suffer.

It was a day as different from other days as dogs are from cats and both of them from chrysanthemums or tidal waves or scarlet fever.

Where the rich lead,the poor will follow, or try to.

Man differs more from man than man from beast

That whole 99% thing, they are all in the 1% of the world. Every one of them pays a cellphone bill that is the yearly income for a family in much of the rest of the world.

His brothers were the type; he was the variation.

'Results may vary.' means that it probably wont work for you at all.

an inverse operation multiplies to such a degree what concerns our welfare and divides by such a formidable figure what does not concern it, that the death of millions of unknown people hardly affects us more unpleasantly than a draught.

Interesante como a divisão de classes cria rituais próprios, que aumentam a distância entre elas.

I had to admit, my little Accord hadn't looked all that great next to the Benzes and Rolls in that garage to begin with, but now that it'd been turned into a mobile tribute to the artistic rendering of Lil' Loco, it stuck out like a Cracker Jack ring in a a Tiffany display.

It's been said that only the very rich understand the difference between themselves and the poor, and only the truly brilliant understand the difference between themselves and the relatively dumb.

Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.

Rich men hold their secrets close to their chest and share among themselves only. I am not afraid to share my secrets to poor people because I know most of them will not use it