Quotes About Disparity

Living as a richer person among the poor is very stressful

There are more people now with wireless connections than with flush toilets, according to the United Nations (2013).

When most people come to believe the same thing, large gaps open up between price and value.

If the only advantage of affluence were the ability to buy yachts, sports cars, and fancy vacations, inequalities

al igual que ocurrió con el triunfo del Brexit en Reino Unido, la elección de Donald Trump en 2016 fue una airada condena a décadas de desigualdad en aumento y de extensión de una versión de la globalización que beneficia a quienes ya están en la cima pero deja a los ciudadanos corrientes sumidos en una sensación de desamparo.

Justice and fairness are like rain that falls more heavily on some people than others. People with umbrellas tend to stay dry. People on high ground avoid the flood. Rich people. Connected people.

There are people who can afford to eat healthfully and there are people who cannot. I'd say that represents a fundamental brokenness of our system and our food supply. It doesn't have to be like that.

The great white joker in the sky dooms us all to stupidity or poverty from birth. No two things on earth are equal or have an equal chance, not a leaf or a tree.

If I make $100,000 a year and Elon Musk makes $100,000,000 a year and we both see a doubling of our incomes, while I should be thrilled at my newfound fortune of $200,000, if I compare it to Musk's massive $200,000,000, that comparative difference may feel worse, even though I'm better off and no one is worse off for the Tesla and SpaceX CEO's fortune.

There were never in the world two opinions alike, any more than two hairs or two grains. Their most universal quality is diversity.

Igual que el liberalismo económico desenfrenado, y por motivos análogos, el liberalismo sexual produce fenómenos de empobrecimiento absoluto. Algunos hacen el amor todos los días; otros cinco o seis veces en su vida, o nunca. Algunos hacen el amor con docenas de mujeres; otros con ninguna. Es lo que se llama la «ley del mercado».

en la mayoría de las ocasiones la transmisión del saber es imposible, la diversidad de las inteligencias es extrema y que nada puede suprimir ni siquiera atenuar esa desigualdad fundamental

our countrymen are starving, she is decorating herself with diamond aigrettes!

There's always an imbalance with actors and actresses in the industry. And I think because there are just fewer movies overall being made, it's that trickle down effect.

There are only two families in the world, the Haves and the Have-Nots.

There are only two families in the world, the Haves and Have-Nots.

Even were the time to come when there would be neither poor nor rich, yet there will always be wise and stupid, sly and simple, for so there have ever been and ever will be. The strong man sets his foot on the neck of the weakling; the cunning man runs off with the simpleton's purse and sets the dunce to work for him. Man is a crooked dealer and even his virtue is imperfect. Only he who lies down never to rise again is wholly good.

Rikkaat tulivat yhä rikkaammiksi ja mahtavat yhä mahtavammiksi ja köyhät yhä köyhemmiksi, kuten jumalat ovat säätäneet, niin että kaikki ihmiset olivat tyytyväisiä eivätkä napisseet.

We live in a rich society with poor children, and that should be intolerable.

4. There will always be a difference between God and human beings. The gap between us is not merely a moral and spiritual disparity which originated with the fall. It is metaphysical, stemming from creation. Even when redeemed and glorified, we will still be his human creatures. We will never become God.

There will always be a difference between God and human beings. The gap between us is not merely a moral and spiritual disparity which originated with the fall. It is metaphysical, stemming from creation. Even when redeemed and glorified, we will still be his human creatures. We will never become God.

I kept getting older while he stayed young, my tiny husband.

The distance between taking social action and having the knowledge is as wide as the mouth of the Mississippi.

The hungry ones are praying and begging for daily bread, while food is thrown daily in the palaces.