The rich man has his motorcar, His country and his town estate, He smokes a fifty-cent cigar And jeers at Fate. He… — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
More than poverty, more than degree of education, religion, access to natural resources, even degree of democracy - violence against females is… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
There are a lot of Egyptians who live below the poverty line and are preoccupied with meeting basic needs. Therefore, we have… — Mindy Baha El Din Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a book about poverty that wasn't only about the poor. I was looking for some sort of narrative… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Population diminishing, even in Japan and Italy, the population is diminishing. When society can reach a sustainable place or gain comfortable income,… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
There are major disappointments with the outcomes of Solidarity: corruption, and major pockets of economic backwardness and even poverty. By and large,… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
I have seen a lot of men, for example, who will make a will and include their daughters whether they are married… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Kids in high poverty are much more expensive to educate and need much more support... When they're packed into a classroom of… — Gretchen Whitmer Copy Share Image
“Man is born rich, but almost everywhere is poor. It is to the elucidation of this paradox that many of the finest… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
“When evening comes, I return home and enter my study; on the threshold I take off my workday clothes, covered with mud… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
And one thing to be remembered: it is not that the people who are poor, starving, become frustrated with life - no.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If ever household affections and loves are graceful things, they are graceful in the poor. The ties that bind the wealthy and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Media mystifications should not obfuscate a simple, perceivable fact; Black teenage girls do not create poverty by having babies. Quite the contrary,… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
I utterly reject the view that the Third World is doomed to poverty and starvation. Not only is this wrong, I think… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
In America, the problems of poverty and low income, particularly for minorities, are disproportionately focused in the inner cities. Shining a spotlight… — Michael Porter Copy Share Image
Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease,… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
“Communism is a hateful thing and a menace to peace and organized government; but the communism of combined wealth and capital, the… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
Every morning our newspapers could read, 'More than 20,000 people perished yesterday of extreme poverty.' How? The poor die in hospital wards… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
If my time has come I shall have nothing to complain of. For fifty-tree years I have been painting; so I have… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Copy Share Image
If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“According to the World Values Survey, while 60 percent of Europeans say they think “the poor are trapped in poverty,” only 29… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It breaks my heart when I watch TV or walk on the streets and see these little kids struggling; walking around with… — London Mond Copy Share Image
I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical;… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
In the past, the poverty they shared had a certain sweetness about it. When the end of the day came and they… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the… — Arthur Hertzberg Copy Share Image
That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I conceive of a world without poverty, without classes, without nations, without religions, without any kind of discrimination. I conceive of a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Vacation time is the best time to do solitude because you could just take two weeks of it or one week of… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The dignity of the human person is a transcendent value, always recognized as such by those who sincerely search for the truth.… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“If you will invest the maximum amount of time in hard work, polishing and building your own land of promise, you will… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The world's proverb is, "God help the poor, for the rich can help themselves;" but to our mind, it is just the… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Women continue receiving less salary for the same kind of job. Women have a higher unemployment rate in our country. When you… — Laura Chinchilla Copy Share Image
Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease. Greed is the key. It's… — Roger Moore Copy Share Image
Hunger, disease and poverty can lead to global instability and leave a vacuum for extremism to fill. So instead of just managing… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The new millennium began with a great global dream. World leaders gathered at the United Nations in 2000 and adopted, among others,… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
I'm very familiar with poverty. I find it easy to be with, whether I'm in America or in Africa or in Asia.… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
Go, all of you poor people, in the name of God the Creator, and let him forever be your guide. And henceforth,… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
“Life gets harder and harder. They say we have a lot of people in this country. And the most abundant are the… — Manlio Argueta Copy Share Image
Love is very important in The First Man, in that [Albert] Camus loves these things he never chose, he loves his childhood… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
“The informal economy is the livelihood of many Lagosians. But corruption, in the form of piracy or of graft, also means that… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image