When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
In the 21st century, I think the heroes will be the people who will improve the quality of life, fight poverty and… — Bertrand Piccard Copy Share Image
“Poor JZ is the perpetual victim. In the case of Nkandla, he was the victim of a 'supply-chain' fiasco; something he knew… — Jacques Pauw Copy Share Image
Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
We need to see the FLSA and the minimum wage as part of a larger struggle to cut poverty and to address… — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In this great country of ours, it is inexcusable that so many children grow up in poverty and despair. The well-being of… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“Your time keeps flying away into vanity while you dine with your distractions. Your life keeps diminishing while you waste your time… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Prosperity is an essential partner in civilization itself. It is the basis of leisure, charity, and a hopeful outlook on life. It… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
“The festive music died down and the granite pillars were replaced with rotted wooden beams as he continued down the alleyways. The… — Evan Meekins Copy Share Image
Poverty is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
What AI could do is essentially be a power tool that magnifies human intelligence and gives us the ability to move our… — Stuart J. Russell Copy Share Image
“What's important to recognize is that in the U.S. today, tens of millions of kids start life on a uneven playing field.… — Chelsea Clinton Copy Share Image
“The honest poor are the moneyless vulgar rich. Poverty forces them to have good qualities and pride in other things besides money.… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
People say that poverty is bad, but in fact poverty is good. The poorer people are, the more revolutionary they are. It… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Today I see more clearly than yesterday that the back of the problem of race and color lies a greater problem which… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Many of my contemporaries in the developed world see subsistence farming as soulful and organic, but it is a poverty trap and… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
It's important to remember that, while poverty certainly makes single life harder, it also makes married life harder - so much harder… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Instead of looking at difficulties as deprivations, we can learn to recognize them as opportunities for deepening and widening our love. — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always:… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
If not one more cent in new aid money flowed [to Africa], we could with more urgency and efficiency and creativity be… — Kumi Naidoo Copy Share Image
There are millions and millions of people who are thrown in the midst of poverty and starvation. Animals don't die of starvation,… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Capitalism, and capitalism alone, has rescued the human race from degrading poverty, rampant sickness and early death. — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
Policies are also to blame: the only thing that the governments and people can come up with to give to the poor… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
“The best way to detect the destructive element in someone is to watch closely their behavioural pattern when given authority over poverty.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The mystery of poverty is that by sharing in it, making ourselves poor in giving to others, we increase our knowledge of… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
I think Americans yearn for other alternatives to peace, than the path our government has currently taken, and perhaps why there is… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
There are no causes of poverty. To ask what causes poverty is like asking what causes coldit is the absence of energy.… — Madsen Pirie Copy Share Image
Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed. — Iqbal Quadir Copy Share Image
We live on this very small and fragile planet: a world in which there is poverty and injustice is never going to… — Hilary Benn Copy Share Image
I have not personally suffered from the deprivations, the bitterness and sorrow which bring so many men and women to a realisation… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
To block the construction of centralized power projects, as not being 'appropriate' or 'sustainable' is to condemn billions of people to continued… — Paul Driessen Copy Share Image
There's no magic bullet to end poverty in the world. But if you could, the closest thing to it would be basic… — Craig Kielburger Copy Share Image
Single parent situations drive poverty and often lead to unsupervised kids. Many boys growing up without fathers often feel angry and abandoned.… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
“According to a World Report in this issue, more than 60 million people in India were forced below the poverty line by… — The Lancet Copy Share Image
“It is important that any value you add to yourself should be converted to tangible products that could benefit humanity.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Poverty is a scorpion; it stings the poor and it also stings the men with high conscience who feel sad about the… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
We decided in the mid-1960s that all poor people are the same: they are all poor. We know they're poor because we… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
I have seen that traditional approaches to charity and aid don't solve problems of poverty. In fact, too often they create dependence. — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image