The vice and drunkenness among the lowering laboring classes is growing to frightful excess, and the multitudes of low Irish Catholics …… — John Pintard Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
The century would seek to dominate nature as it had never been dominated, would attack the idea of war, poverty and natural… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“Furnishing was not a priority in the Citadel. Shelves, stools, tables... There was a rumor among the novices that priests towards the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
In a world where millions of human beings live in extreme poverty, die of malnutrition and lack medical care, where pandemics continue… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
Our foremost priority is the removal of poverty, hunger and malnutrition, disease and illiteracy. All social welfare programmes must be implemented efficiently.… — Pratibha Patil Copy Share Image
In this country we're unprecedentedly safe, comfortable, and well fed, with more and better venues for stimulation. And yet if you were… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
You know how people love to glamorize poverty? There's nothing glamorous about it. But it did make me really creative. Those days,… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
Have not all theists painted their Deity as the god of love and goodness? Yet after thousands of years of such preachments… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“This, then, is the dread that seems to lie beneath the fear of equalizing. Equity is seen as dispossession. Local autonomy is… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
We live increasingly in a world of haves and have-nots, of gated communities next to ghettos, of extreme poverty and unbelievable riches.… — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
“As of early 2017, GiveDirectly planned to mobilize $30 million for what it claims will be the largest basic income experiment ever.… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
“ Jeremy Bentham argued that 'even in the best of times the great mass of citizens will most probably possess few resources… — Linda McQuaig Copy Share Image
... nothing seems completely to differentiate the poor but poverty. We find no adjectives to fit them, as a whole, only those… — Albion Fellows Bacon Copy Share Image
You have extreme poverty and high crime and you have to admit that the governance of the Kabul regime has been poor… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“For when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs all of the others ... the fact that it annihilates… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
[Praying] demands that you take to the road again and again, leaving your house and looking forward to a new land for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Government programs aim at getting money for poor people. Our hope was that knowledge would in the long run be more useful,… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Where there is Love and Wisdom, there is neither Fear nor Ignorance. Where there is Patience and Humility, there is neither Anger… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that… — Taylor Sheridan Copy Share Image
there does seem to me something sad in life. It is hard to say what it is. I don't mean the sorrow… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
Right now, with millions of Americans still out of work, and struggling to recover from the worst economic downturn since the great… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
According to UNESCO: there are over 154 million children in the world deprived of education due to poverty, slavery, racism, religious extremism,… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
This country is going to implode, or put another way, it's going to get crushed under the weight of poverty. You can't… — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
Bhagavad Gita is very relevant to modern times when you see things like global warming, climate chaos, changing weather patterns, natural disasters… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“If there are so many references in the Mass to poverty, sadness, failure and loss, it is because the Church views the… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
But ask yourself this Eragon: If gods exist, have they been good custodians of alagaesia? Death, sickness, poverty, tyranny and countless other… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
Environmentalism is a luxury. Just like being a vegetarian is a luxury. When you have to worry about eating - you're not… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
We have to use all of America's strengths to build a world with more partners and fewer adversaries, more shared responsibility and… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The deepest poverty is the inability of joy, the tediousness of a life considered absurd and contradictory. This poverty is widespread today,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Look, we'll have to confront the pathologies of poverty at some point. We can deal with them cheaply at the front end,… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
“If there is any church service that you attend and it quickens your purpose and adds value to your life, if that… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Homo sapiens Yuck You contemporary fools laugh at religious and political lies spewed by sociopaths, lies that tether you forever to poverty… — Bobby Miller Copy Share Image
“We have all read about poverty and starvation around the world, but I never imagined I would be witnessing it firsthand. On… — Bryan A. Wood Copy Share Image
To me the early childhood story is an ecumenical one. You take poverty seriously. You take seriously maternal depression. You take seriously… — Robert Manne Copy Share Image
I have been poor and I wanted to document poverty; I had lost a child and I was obsessed with birth; I… — Eve Arnold Copy Share Image
Anyone who has read Yeats's wonderful Autobiography will remember his Sligo shabby, shadowed, half country and half sea, full of confused romance,… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
![“[Praying] demands that you take to the road again and again, leaving your house and looking forward to a new land for yourself and your [fellow human]. This is why praying demands poverty, that is, the readiness to live a life in which you have nothing to lose so that you always begin afresh.” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/52d/anonymous-1_demand_praying-demands-that-you-take-to-the-roa_3186897.jpg)
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