“If anyone's interested in the alleviation of poverty... the only thing we know definitely works is giving women control over their own… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“There is only one real deprivation, I decided this morning, and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Will we make all poverty history? No. But can we solve some of these extreme and egregious forms of poverty? I think… — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
“At every moment, the poverty and richness of God and destiny are not the main reasons, hegemony and surroundings are the main… — Kamaran Ihsan Salih Copy Share Image
The riches of successful entrepreneurs is not the cause of anybody's poverty; it is the consequence of the fact that the consumers… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“...the oppressor is truly repressed. Their poverty is existential, often surrounded by an abundance of material goods. (Leonardo Boff, p. 179)” — Mev Puleo Copy Share Image
When a poor man begs for your help , his pride is hurt. Then you dont deal another blow to his pride… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuffbox, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles… — Thomas Browne Sr Copy Share Image
Those who automatically say that the social pathology of the ghetto is due to poverty discrimination and the like cannot explain why… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Yes, victors are our strongest. They're the ones who survived the arena and slipped the noose of poverty that strangles the rest… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make… — Pericles Copy Share Image
I founded Grameen Bank to provide loans to those considered traditionally unbankable. Grameen Bank works with the poorest and often illiterate, providing… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Poverty made me feel weak, as if I were coming down with an awful, debilitating, communicable disease - the disease of being… — Faith Sullivan Copy Share Image
Most poor people are not on welfare. . . I know they work. I'm a witness. They catch the early bus. They… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
You have to be willing to see that sometimes the governments of these poor countries don't come through. You have to think… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Lula da Silva was my hero when he was president. I Googled him so many times. The fact that he got 20… — Joyce Banda Copy Share Image
“The current danger for most of us is not the deprivation suffered by our ancestors but an excess of nutrition.” — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
We can help poor people ,but poverty is a decision they make everyday and no one can cure it since they don't… — Wordfaith3 Copy Share Image
“Poverty will keep for you your true and tried friends; you will be rid of the men who were not seeking you… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Poverty is a great evil, but to a woman of education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest.—I would… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Rather than engineering our economies solely to maximise GDP, Africa's business and political leaders must build economies explicitly designed to end poverty… — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
I think that America in general is piratical. Every time we accept a paycheck for doing almost nothing, allowing us to live… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
Because so many employers refuse to pay their workers a wage on which they can live - most Britons languishing below the… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
I'm calling for all responsible Americans to fight back and punish Pepsi for using a man who degrades women, who encourages substance… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from… — Ernie Fletcher Copy Share Image
There's a point of poverty at which the spirit isn't with the body all the time. It finds the body really too… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
Poor America, of what avail is all her wealth, if the individuals comprising the nation are wretchedly poor? If they live in… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
America is still the land of opportunity for most, but it is not a land of opportunity for all. If we are… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
I know of no system other than Hinduism under which a class has been set apart from generation to generation for the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is perfectly consistent - and also true - to say that the world poverty problem today is smaller (relative to world… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
“If you don’t just want to live an ordinary life, then you will have to be intentional about converting all your time… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Famine, poverty, abuse, you can't keep that all blocked out. If you let those things teach you, influence you, change you, those… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out… — Jon Corzine Copy Share Image
If admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
I may not remember the name of a book's author, but let it be clear, what I will not forget is the… — Enrique Pena Nieto Copy Share Image
“The secret of all greatness is in knowing what to do with time. The secret of all the great men and women… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
If a girl understand your bull-shit, sticks through your childish acts, care for you even when you've done jack-shit for her! It's… — London Mond Copy Share Image
It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go… — Horace Copy Share Image
