Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived. — Margaret Mead 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
“The poor, I am told, are kind to each other but that is because they have nothing to lose,' he said. 'The… — M.R.C. Kasasian Copy Share Image
We have to tackle child poverty by getting to people when they are young, through education, giving them hope and making sure… — Heidi Allen Copy Share Image
“The desire of most people on earth is to make money and money seems to be the greatest motivation in life for… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists,… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
There is a proper measure in all things, certain limits beyond which and short of which right is not to be found.… — Horace Copy Share Image
As a nation, there are many issues we don't talk about, we just don't talk about, push them under the rug. Poverty… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
When you read Marx (or Jesus) this way, you come to see that real wealth is not material wealth and real poverty… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
As long as a population can be induced to believe in a supernatural hereafter, it can be oppressed and controlled. People will… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Only that which lasts forever is real. That which is done in the temple lasts forever; therefore, the temple is the real… — John H. Groberg Copy Share Image
We love to think this fundamentalism and terrorism is all about poverty, and, of course, it has a connection. You can see… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
If I had not grown up in Nigeria- and if all I knew of Africa were of popular images- I too would… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I want to make sure that we have a tax code that makes sure that everyone benefits, including those in poverty and… — Mark Meadows Copy Share Image
There is a saying in Tibetan that "at the door of the miserable rich man sleeps the contented beggar". The point of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Here the whole world (stars, water, air, And field, and forest, as they were Reflected in a single mind) Like cast off… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition.… — Barack Obama 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
... 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 year's worth of Social Security for an individual is not considered to be below the poverty level, and yet we know… — Mellody Hobson Copy Share Image
“I didn't need to know the worth of everything in this room to understand that the emerald curtains alone- silk, with gold… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
In a country like Mexico, you can't forget about poverty - about how half of the population lives in poverty, and how… — Jose Angel Gurria Copy Share Image
But poverty, though it does not prevent the generation, is extremely unfavourable to the rearing of children. The tender plant is produced,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of… — Irwin Redlener Copy Share Image
“People who have become great like Benjamin Franklin only became great because they learned how to invest time into improving whatever it… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“The worker picked up Pakhom’s spade, dug a grave, and buried him - six feet from head to heel, exactly the amount… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
What is it with Democrats and their hostility to schools that offer poor minority kids the best ticket out of generational poverty… — Miranda Devine Copy Share Image
You have this response of angry young people, with a war going on in Vietnam, a poverty program that was insufficient, and… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
Ordinary citizens are so accepting of what is going on, grumbling when their material interests were affected, but seemingly accepting the spiritual… — Charles Handy Copy Share Image
“I believe that the emphasis on curbing population growth diverts attention from the more vital issue of pursuing policies that allow the… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Fundamentalism is not bred in poverty. There are plenty of poor countries in the world that don't have violence because amid the… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair. — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
Economic progress and justice do not consist in superbly equalized destitution, but in the constant creation of more and more goods and… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Giving every girl in the world the chance of a healthy, educated, and economically independent life is essential if we are to… — Alok Sharma Copy Share Image
The impact of NCDs is not only affecting the urban populations but also rural poor. This is compounding the basic problem of… — Marty Natalegawa Copy Share Image
Remember, aid cannot achieve the end of poverty. Only homegrown development base on the dynamism of individuals and firms in free markets… — William Easterly Copy Share Image
The ultimate objective of subsidies should be to empower the poor, to break the cycle of poverty, and become foot-soldiers in our… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
