Disparity Quotes

Illinois is large, but we do not always receive our fair share of federal resources because our leadership is often divided. When we all row together, good things happen.

Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.

The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.

While young men stand ready to pay with their lives for the honor and interest of the American people, the son of wealthy Mr. [Henry] Ford sits at home in ignoble safety.

I don't like being treated differently.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. It’s very hard in military or in personal life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair.

I believe that virtually all the problems in the world come from inequality of one kind or another.

I firmly believe that talent and intelligence are universal, but resources and opportunities are not.

The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.

O neglectful Nature, wherefore art thou thus partial, becoming to some of thy children a tender and benignant mother, to others a most cruel and ruthless stepmother? I see thy children given into slavery to others without ever receiving any benefit, and in lieu of any reward for the services they have done for them they are repaid by the severest punishments.

Gentlemen, I speak to you for the miners' families... The little children are gathered around a bare table without anything to eat. They are not asking for a $100,000 yacht like yours, Mr.______..." (here, he would gesture with his cigar toward an operator), "...or for a Rolls-Royce limousine like yours, Mr. _____..." (staring at another operator). They are asking only for a slim crust of bread.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

Equal doesn't mean identical.

The problem is we don't fight on the same level. We have laws that protect everybody.

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

The extremes of society are being driven further and further apart.

I'm not rich, though everybody thinks I am.

If somebody comes up and they're African American as Mike is, and they're extremely talented as Mike is, they say, "Oh, yeah, he's the next ..." I think that it points to disparity.

The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.

Inequality is an enormously complicated thing that is both good and bad.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.

The prime culprit in causing contemporary social inequality seems to be merit.

When people refer to a cage fight as war, I think it's kinda cute... A war, huh? You know what a war is? They, evidently, don't. It's not maybe their place to know what it is, but I do.

Since the invention of gunpowder has armed the weak as well as the strong with missile death, bodily strength, like beauty, good humor, politeness and other accomplishments, has become but an auxiliary ground of distinction.