Quotes About Disparity

The same formula, applied by two people, can produce different results. The experience is individualized.

It is important that we understand Bacon's Rebellion for what it revealed: the most promising land was never equally available to all.

what would happen, he posed, if one hundred thousand poor children and one hundred thousand rich children were all given the same food, clothing, education, care, and protection? Class lines would likely disappear.

We cling to the comfort of a middle class, forgetting that there can't be a middle class without a lower.

The poor man and the beggar are two quite different classes: one commands respect, the other arouses anger.

A Tax Foundation study for 2002 has found that taxpayers with adjusted gross incomes under $20,000 incur a compliance cost of 4.53 percent of income compared to only 0.29 percent for taxpayers with adjusted gross incomes over $200,000.

Now ... this" idea: the phenomenon whereby the reporting of a horrific event—a rape or a five-alarm fire or global warming—is followed immediately by the anchor's cheerfully exclaiming "Now ... this," which segues into a story about Janet Jackson's exposed nipple or a commercial for lite beer, creating a sequencing of information so random, so disparate in scale and value, as to be incoherent, even psychotic.

When its 100 degrees in New York, it's 72 in Los Angeles. When its 30 degrees in New York, in Los Angeles it's still 72. However, there are 6 million interesting people in New York, and 72 in Los Angeles.

If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent.

Between 1980 and 2000 the number of patents registered in Israel was 7652 compared with 367 for all the Arab countries combined. In 2008 alone is really inventors applied to register 9591 new patents. The equivalent figure for Iran was 50 and for all majority Muslim countries in the world with 5657.

America's schools rarely convey much understanding of the 2.7 billion people (40 percent of the world's population) who today live on less than $2 a day.

The United States has about 13 million children living in poverty. Of those, about 2 million may live in "extreme poverty" by global definitions (in households earning less than about $2 per person per day), when looking at their cash incomes. These kids would be considered extremely poor if they lived in Congo or Bangladesh, yet they're here in the United States.

lifetime risk of maternal death is one thousand times higher in a poor country than in the West. That should be an international scandal. The gap, moreover, is getting wider.

Since the end of the twentieth century, the United States has witnessed an ominous and growing divergence among three trends that should ordinarily move together: wealth, output, and employment.

In Japan, the highest-paid executive earns only fifteen times what the average worker does. Here, CEOs earn five hundred times more, but that's supposed to motivate the American worker. To do what, kidnap his boss?

The most salient feature of the statement is its categorical rejection of the idea that there is any wide disparity among people in their innate ability to master science. A blithe egalitarianism reigns. Any attempt to confront this pipe dream with an "elitist" view of the spectrum of talent would be rejected with pious horror.

qu'il n'y a que les gens malheureux, pour mettre la souffrance des humbles de plain-pied avec la leur… Il y a toujours de l'insolence et de la distance dans la bonté des heureux !…

I didn't know how bad it would be or when it would come. But everything was getting worse: the climate, the economy, crime, drugs, you know. I didn't believe we would be allowed to sit behind our walls, looking clean and fat and rich to the hungry, thirsty, homeless, jobless, filthy people outside.

I have watched education become more a privilege of

The clash between rich and poor is a hackneyed enough subject, but I am now convinced that it really is one of the eternal themes of drama.

Incluso ahora pienso que los enfrentamientos entre pobres y ricos es un tema de parece caduco, pero que siempre formará parte de las tragedias

Wizards don't all look alike.

Leslie absorbed that. "If that's so, I peg our Anna at sixteen and her husband at ten thousand and change.

For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.