Quotes about Disparity

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

One great reason why the rich in general have so little sympathy for the poor is because they so seldom visit them. Hence it is that one part of the world does not know what the other suffers. Many of them do not know, because they do not care to know: they keep out of the way of knowing it — and then plead their voluntary ignorance as an excuse for their hardness of heart.

Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.

Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhuman because it often results in physical death.

That equality is a good thing, a fine goal, may be generally accepted. What is lacking is a sense of the monstrosity of inequality .

In its best prewar year, Europe with almost 300 million people had a gross national product of 150 billion dollars. In that same year, the United States with 150 million people had a gross national product of 300 billion dollars.

Civilization, or that which is so called, has operated two ways to make one part of society more affluent and the other part more wretched than would have been the lot of either in a natural state.

You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.

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.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

One thing's sure and nothings' surer the rich get richer and the poor get -children In the meantime In between time.

The poor are poor because the rich are rich.