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Discrepancy Quotes

Naming the gap is the first step.

Discrepancy here isn't abstract — it's the pay gap between men and women doing the same job, or the widest gap in health and longevity between a country's richest and poorest residents.

No, I think that we've got a basic discrepancy here between the rule of law versus the rule of man.

Quotes by Roy Moore

The United States has the biggest discrepancy in health and longevity between our wealthiest and our poorest of any country on Earth.

Quotes by Robert Sapolsky

You have to look at the discrepancy between what you hoped and imagined and the reality of yourself and all your shortcomings.

Quotes by Richard Grant

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.

Quotes by Rem Koolhaas

Acceleration Quotes

A small pay discrepancy between men's and women's salaries for the same job may seem inconsequential. But over the years, salary discrimination adds up to a significantly smaller pension.

Quotes by Madeleine M. Kunin

The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains the standard orthodoxy among them. This discrepancy sometimes leads to guilty consciences.

Quotes by John Frame

There's a discrepancy between what you think you are and what other people think you are.

Quotes by Jake Lacy

Once the Third World has become a mass market for the goods, products, and processes which are designed by the rich for themselves, the discrepancy between demand for these Western artifacts and the supply will increase indefinitely.

Quotes by Ivan Illich

We shouldn't force ourselves to do something that really is just painful to us. If there is a discrepancy between what we are doing or putting our bodies through and then what our minds are telling us, you really have...

Quotes by David Belle

Architecture Quotes

My discrepancy with children in the industry is that they are made famous before they know who they are as human beings.

Quotes by Corey Feldman

If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.

Quotes by Charles Horton Cooley

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

Quotes by Carl Jung

The ouster of Jill Abramson as executive editor of 'The New York Times' sent shock waves through the media landscape. Reports that she was fired thanks in part to a soured relationship based on the 'Times' alleged sexist pay discrepancy...

Quotes by Ben Shapiro

When I see the discrepancy between kids in the Philippines and the U.S., I feel like I have to give them an opportunity.

Quotes by apl.de.ap

Frequently Asked Questions

What kinds of discrepancies do these quotes name?
Real, specific ones — pay differences between men and women, and the widest gap in health and longevity between a country's richest and poorest residents.
Why would someone search for discrepancy quotes?
Usually for writing about inequality, fairness, or policy gaps. These quotes are useful because they name concrete discrepancies rather than speaking in generalities.
Is there a quote that uses discrepancy in a legal sense?
Yes — one frames it as the basic discrepancy between the rule of law and the rule of man, applying the word to governance rather than economics or biology.
Do any quotes connect discrepancy to long-term consequences?
One does, tracing how a seemingly small pay discrepancy compounds over years into a significantly smaller pension, showing how minor gaps Become major ones over time.
Is this topic more about economics or about fairness generally?
Mostly fairness, with economics as the evidence — every quote uses a measurable gap to make a broader point about who a system leaves behind.

One line pulls it into legal territory instead, framing discrepancy as the difference between the rule of law and the rule of man. Small or systemic, every quote asks what got left unequal, and why.