It's great to see countries like China and India lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty by essentially copying Western… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity. — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
“The vast majority of Americans, at all coordinates of the economic spectrum, consider themselves middle class; this is a deeply ingrained, distinctly… — Ellen Cushing Copy Share Image
Everything I do is going to be gangsta rap, street based, street oriented... I'm from Gary, Indiana, and everybody's damn near at… — Freddie Gibbs Copy Share Image
If our family was poor, of what did our poverty consist? If our clothes were torn the torn places only let in… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
I had known poverty firsthand, but there I learned how to fight its evil - along with the evil of racism -… — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
“You are not told that while you try to eliminate your boredom by playing games and chatting on social media or watching… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Most people on earth are just spending time at work, in school or in church without having anything of value to show… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In the Catholic Worker we must try to have the voluntary poverty of St. Francis, the charity of St. Vincent de Paul,… — Peter Maurin Copy Share Image
If you search for poverty, you'll find it, often in the family. Why? Because the family makes this great investment, from which… — Rocco Buttiglione Copy Share Image
Every farmer must go to the seed industry every year to buy their seed and pay an 80 percent royalty to a… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
If I were president, I would want to spend a lot of time going to the legislatures and telling them about best… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
“There was a problem: No one cared about human rights anymore, not at home or abroad. They cared about growth--hoped for and… — Daniel Alarcón Copy Share Image
If I were a supervillain, I would end capitalism, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia... but I guess that's a little too obvious and… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
When you resolve to become pious, the devil in your nature cries out at you, "Tread not those paths, O confused one;… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The good news is we have the technology and the tools to alleviate poverty on a global scale. All that is standing… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
The fact that war is the word we use for almost everything—on terrorism, drugs, even poverty—has certainly helped to desensitize us to… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
I think that we are trying to move towards the First World slowly but surely. But we must do a good job… — Juan Manuel Santos Copy Share Image
“Oh! Your poverty, ye men, and your sordidness of soul! As much as ye give to your friend, will I give even… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“If you must record some greatness in your account before you leave this earth, you must value time and understand the importance… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs and symbols that indicate the presence of [Muslim] rule more surely than the crescent-flag itself,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am still a socialist. I am a left-of-center politician. I believe that in Africa, if you see the poverty around us,… — John Dramani Mahama Copy Share Image
“If you invest your life into yourself, you are not pouring your life out somewhere, to some job or for some salary,… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I have got immense love from the poor people. What more do I need? I don't think of death and ailment. Life… — Lalu Prasad Yadav Copy Share Image
“This is why we said 'ain't' and 'he don't'. We wanted words to fit our cold linoleum, our oil lamps, our outhouse.… — Vern Rustsala Copy Share Image
One question we must consider today is how we can take action to unify our nation, heal racial division, end poverty and… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
The real solution to the problem of poverty consists in finding how to increase the employment and earning power of the poor. — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Wealth means nothing at all if you do not know, to the last penny, what your fortune is. You might as well… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
The superior man is anxious lest he should not get the truth; he is not anxious lest poverty should come upon him. — Confucius Copy Share Image
I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty, its most compelling scribes do not resign themselves to… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
At the most basic level, the key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
The lack of marriage is being blamed for almost every social ill - whether it's gun violence, whether it's poverty, whether it's… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
“She had developed a number of habits in her younger years, none of which carried with them a bright future, and the… — Rachel Autumn Deering Copy Share Image
A true prayer is an inventory of needs, a catalog of necessities, an exposure of secret wounds, a revelation of hidden poverty. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“The thought that your time and your life will melt away should create a sense of urgency to do something of worth… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Economic inequality is a corrosive force that undermines economic growth, puts a brake on the fight against poverty, and sparks social unrest. — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
India was a sensation. It was remarkable to see all those parrots flying about, the brilliant foliage and the brilliant sky. It… — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Copy Share Image
By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs,… — Elijah Cummings Copy Share Image
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