Outer achievements should be expressions of inner abundance, not compensation for inner poverty. — Sangharakshita Copy Share Image
I've still got family members living below the poverty line in New York. — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
Berlusconi's advice to Italians trying to escape poverty: "Do it my way and earn more money". — Silvio Berlusconi Copy Share Image
Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor. — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
“Where mothers were not under the intense pressures of urban poverty, breastfeeding could flourish.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
it is impossible to attack the problem of poverty in the industrialized or the developing world effectively unless the extent to which… — Hilda Scott Copy Share Image
“A writer is anyone who follows only the truth of who they are, without ever relying on anything other than the poverty… — Christian Bobin Copy Share Image
Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
... what's been building since the 1980's is a new kind of social Darwinism that blames poverty and crime and the crisis… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people,… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
A grateful person is rich in contentment. An ungrateful person suffers in the poverty of endless discontentment. — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
“Many of those living in poverty in this country, in fact, would be considered quite wealthy by poor people in other countries.” — Ben Carson Copy Share Image
...let us recognize that extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere. Let us recall that poverty is a denial… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
It is important to remember when reading Adam Smith or even when just thinking about Smith that the era that he lived… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Many people believe in eliminating gaps and eliminating poverty. They don't realize that in some sense those two things are antithetical. If… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“At all times it is a bewildering thing to the poor weaver to see his employer removing from house to house, each… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
We certainly would resolve the problems of the charities that are working in areas where they can do the most good. So… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“Many of my classmates have happier memories of Blessed Sacrament, and in time I would find my own satisfaction in the classroom.… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Never before has man had such a great capacity to control his own environment, to end hunger, poverty and disease, to banish… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Humility, or poverty of spirit, is not a matter of thinking low thoughts about ourselves. It is not a matter of groveling… — John W. Miller Copy Share Image
