What does fighting crime mean, exactly? Does it mean upholding the law when a woman shoplifts to feed her children, or does… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, some of our poor choices are irreversible, but many are not. Often, we can change course and get back on the… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
“It is my desire that you consider the advice I am rendering here; that you should no longer sell your life but… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Poor people never, or hardly ever, ask for an explanation of all they have to put up with. They hate one another,… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
Every man is our brother, and every man’s burden is our own. Where poverty exists, all are poorer. Where hate flourishes, all… — Whitney M. Young Copy Share Image
Is it possible that the environmental severity of the 1930s induced-particularly in the most aware, alert, and compassionate of [British] men-a morality… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
“Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the obsessive phenomenon… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“..but when one human creature dies a whole world of hope and memory and feeling dies with him. To be robbed of… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“But Buenos Aires also had poor outlying slums, called villa miserias, where hundreds of thousands of people lived in tin or cardboard… — Neal Bascomb Copy Share Image
I assume the president's going to say he got bad intelligence... I think that wherever you see poverty, whether it's in the… — Charles Rangel Copy Share Image
I think this book, Matthew Desmond's "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City.", if you have a friend who is a… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
In the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works a full time job should have to live in poverty. That's a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“No other economic system has brought any country from poverty to prosperity. A free-market system is the only type that offers a… — Barry Asmus Copy Share Image
“I began to feel sorry for myself, to understand what it means to be helpless, and to understand why it's a good… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Business is about problem-solving, but it does not always have to be about maximizing profit. When I went into business, my interest… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Fundamentally, poverty is a denial of choices and opportunities, a violation of human dignity. It means lack of basic capacity to participate… — Dean Karlan Copy Share Image
“the big house and the nice suits and the other things that our money culture says you should buy ... betrays a… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
What government has been doing, we've got major programmes now, of billions of pounds, which are directed by central government into these… — John Prescott Copy Share Image
When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, "Now is that political, or social?" He said, "I feed you." Because the good news… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“He was a poor man, the husband of a sickly woman, whom his desertion would leave alone and destitute; and even if… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me. And I ain't never did… — Tupac Copy Share Image
the wealthy white western minority of the world could not hope to prosper if most of the rest of mankind were foundering… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
A city suffering from chronic poverty, out-of-control crime, a $76 million budget deficit and a 15 percent unemployment rate (nearly 50 percent… — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
“People of civilized countenance made much of exposing the soft underbellies of their psyche—effete and sensitive were the brands of finer breeding.… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
I've seen it around the world, in the poorest countries and in countries riven with conflict, It is women who are the… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
In Blue Crush , we meet three Hawaiian surfers who work as hotel maids, live in a grotty rental, and are raising… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“Among foragers, where property is shared, poverty tends to be a nonissue. In his classic book Stone Age Economics, anthropologist Marshall Sahlins… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
The World Bank is the monopoly provider of poverty data and, partly due to a leadership change there, the World Bank's reporting… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
“Inequality and poverty, unhealth and no wealth are hand in hand. And if we are all born equal that should be true… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
“Only those who have been on the receiving end of poverty, unemployment, homelessess, mental illness, domestic violence, racism, sexism or ageism can… — Hugh Mackay Copy Share Image
“The Black Death is a vivid example of a critical juncture, a major event or confluence of factors disrupting the existing economic… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
If you want to get at African American poverty, the income gap, wealth gap, achievement gap, that the most important thing is… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Kuwa tajiri si kazi rahisi. Ukipata milioni ya kwanza utataka nyingine kulinda hiyo ya kwanza. Ukipata ya pili utataka mbili zingine kulinda… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
Lent is a fitting time for self-denial; we would do well to ask ourselves what we can give up in order to… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“As to having a preference, that was new too. You take what you're given and you're grateful for it. Once that message… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Everyone in the full enjoyment of all the blessings of his life, in his normal condition, feels some individual responsibility forthe poverty… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image