Even today we don't pay serious attention to the issue of poverty, because the powerful remain relatively untouched by it. Most people… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
It was a very economically depressed time [the 80s] and because of that, there was a lot of space. Everything was relatively… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
The fact is that people who strap bombs to their bodies to blow up families at a Bar Mitzvah in Israel, plant… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
The best way to perpetuate poverty is spending on arms, and poverty itself is a form of violence. The wealthy industrialized countries… — Oscar Arias Copy Share Image
Isn't it sad, that in a time when we face so many devastating problems - poverty, HIV/AIDS, war and conflict - that… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
There was an undercurrent of poverty throughout my childhood. We lived with my grandmother in her two-bedroom flat, and I slept with… — Bernard Hill Copy Share Image
The television reports gave me my first inkling of a world beyond my own, a world that wasn't fair or equal, a… — Chrissie Wellington Copy Share Image
Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake. If material poverty is to… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
At CARE, a leading humanitarian organization, we recognize people live their lives in a holistic manner. Issues such as health care, education… — Helene D. Gayle Copy Share Image
Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Of course witnessing poverty was the first to be ticked off the list. Then I had to graduate to the more obscure… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
Think of the wonders uncorked by wine! It opens secrets, gives heart to our hopes, pushes the cowardly into battle, lifts the… — Horace Copy Share Image
“Perhaps to them and their peers their ecological consciousness is a bigger sign of prestige than a fur coat. Perhaps they feel… — Slavenka Drakulić Copy Share Image
The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Between now and 2015, we must make sure that promises made become promises kept. The consequences of doing otherwise are profound: death,… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
To politicians, solved problems represent a dire threat - of unemployment and poverty. That's why no problem ever tackled by the government… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
There is but one love of Jesus, as there is but one person in the poor - Jesus. We take vows of… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
It was not the goal that really concerned us, the journey was the thing. Who ever reaches any goal? From what journey… — Ben Robertson Copy Share Image
of all the deprivations which afflict humankind, none is more dreadful than loneliness. A corrosive, it eats the heart out. People were… — Zelda Popkin Copy Share Image
In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
We cannot eliminate poverty without enabling developing countries to engage more people in economic activity that use natural resources, and we cannot… — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
[Terrorism] is formed of certain fundamental problems, [including] ignorance, poverty, and fear of others. Some people take advantage of the young and… — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image
“Measured in terms of the World Bank poverty standard, the number of poor people in China fell from 652 million to 135… — Wang Shaoguang Copy Share Image
“Simplicity does not mean want or poverty. It does not mean the absence of any decor, or absolute nudity. It only means… — Giles Colborne Copy Share Image
“life itself is a form of suffering. The rich suffer because of their riches. The poor suffer because of their poverty. People… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
It is then, we say, in the successive stages of his experience, that the believer sees more distinctly, and adores more profoundly,… — Octavius Winslow Copy Share Image
Without financial literacy, divorce rates soar, families rupture, and women stay with abusive men for financial security. A lack of jobs contributes… — John Hope Bryant Copy Share Image
Boredom is the keynote of poverty — of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with —… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
“poor. They argue that greater economic equality is a matter of simple justice that governments should enforce. We certainly agree with the… — Barry Asmus Copy Share Image
'Tis sorrow builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden rounds are our calamities, Whereon our firm feet planting, nearer God The spirit… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
It is doubtful if even experience of riches and success is as intense among those who have experienced nothing else as among… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
A few hundred years ago, perhaps 85 or even 90 percent of humanity lived below a standard of living that today only… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
I could have easily been a statistic. Growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y., it was easy - a little too easy - to… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
Read whatever chapter of scripture you will, and be ever so delighted with it - yet it will leave you as poor,… — William Law Copy Share Image
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or cancer or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling or being unwanted, uncared for, deserted by… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The oil is a gift bestowed by God on the Arab nation, to use after centuries of poverty, backwardness and servitude -… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
We don't actually have rich and poor together instead we have a family. What does it mean? If you have resources, you… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
We need to make sure that access to a curative drug doesn't become a yardstick by which poverty is eventually measured. Doing… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“The border between the State of Israel and the occupied Gaza Strip had always reminded him of the line between Tijuana and… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
![“It was a very economically depressed time [the 80s] and because of that, there was a lot of space. Everything was relatively dilapidated, and one could live on a pretty low income. One could live well below the poverty line and not suffer immensely.” quote by Kiki Smith](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/6f7/kiki-smith-10643_80s_it-was-a-very-economically-depressed-tim_26978.jpg)
![“Isn't it sad, that in a time when we face so many devastating problems - poverty, HIV/AIDS, war and conflict - that in our Communion we should be investing so much time and energy on disagreement about sexual orientation?" [The Communion, which] "used to be known for embodying the attribute of…” quote by Desmond Tutu](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/942/desmond-tutu-442_accommodate_isn-t-it-sad-that-in-a-time-when-we-face_805419.jpg)
![“[Terrorism] is formed of certain fundamental problems, [including] ignorance, poverty, and fear of others. Some people take advantage of the young and foolish. They are manipulated, abused, and even drugged to such an extent that they can be used as murderers on the pretext of some crazy ideals or…” quote by Fethullah Gulen](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3cd/fethullah-gulen-7833_advantage_terrorism-is-formed-of-certain-fundament_1991265.jpg)
