You the rich are no whit more attractive or capable than you who were poor and struggling a few years back. But… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
“Whose boys are those with the holes in their pants?" I cringed. How would my grandpa answer such an embarrassing question? "Those… — Elizabeth Byler Younts Copy Share Image
Making loans and fighting poverty are normally two of the least glamorous pursuits around, but put the two together and you have… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
We hold death, poverty, and grief for our principal enemies; but this death, which some repute the most dreadful of all dreadful… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Naked I came into the world, but brush strokes cover me, language raises me, music rhythms me. Art is my rod and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The US, for historical reasons, mistrusts the concept of a welfare state, and this mistrust shows itself nakedly under present US government,… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
It is because the world is so full of suffering, that your happiness is a gift. It is because the world is… — Robert Holden Copy Share Image
I don't want to sound Pollyannish about this. I understand that poverty is never just poverty. It's often this collection of maladies,… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Jesus said, “If those who lead you say to you, ‘Look, the Kingdom is in the sky,’ then the birds of the… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
By almost any measure, the world is better than it has ever been. People are living longer, healthier lives. Many nations that… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“WITH GOD YOU CAN TURN YOUR impeaching importunities into optimal opportunities. Frightful frustration into fortifying fortunes. Humble attitudes into higher altitudes .Distress… — Ikechukwu Joseph Copy Share Image
Poverty is a strange and elusive thing. ... I condemn poverty and I advocate it; poverty is simple and complex at once;… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
...hideous psychic fallout they'd all endured both in active marijuana-dependency and then in marijuana-detox: the social isolation, anxious lassitude, and the hyperself-consciousness… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
...it is proper that the duty of helping the poor and unfortunate should especially stir Catholics, since they are members of the… — Pope John XXII Copy Share Image
As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what more civilized… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think we communicate only too well, in our silence, in what is unsaid, and that what takes place is a continual… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
I strongly believe that we can create a poverty-free world, if we want to… In that kind of world, [the] only place… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Raising the minimum wage may poll well, but having a job that pays $10 an hour is not the American Dream. And… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
People say what distinguishes us from the animals is that we think. Well, then why the hell don't we extend some compassion… — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
“If achieving world peace and ending poverty were really genuine concerns to the majority, then they would have happened already by now.… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Independently of the curious circumstance that such tales should be found existing in very different countries and languages, which augurs a greater… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Like many others, I'm deeply sympathetic to the huge numbers of people looking to come here today to escape suffering and poverty… — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
Poverty when coupled with creativeness is usually free of frustration. This is true of the poor artisan skilled in his trade and… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The intelligent poor individual was a much finer observer than the intelligent rich one. The poor individual looks around him at every… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
Investment in the eradication of hunger today is a good business decision. If we fail to make this investment, it is doubtful… — Alan Hassenfeld Copy Share Image
“They" hate us because they feel--and "they" are not wrong--that it is within our power to do so much more, and that… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“Do you find yourself in a dry place today? Don’t look back toward the land of your bondage, or even to the… — Amy Layne Litzelman Copy Share Image
The Millennium Development Goals were a pledge to uphold the principles of human dignity, equality and equity, and free the world from… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. They forget, perhaps, that his religion… — Charles Alexander Eastman Copy Share Image
We are working towards a shared vision of the future for health among all the world's people. A vision future in which… — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share Image
I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs -… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
I am furious at the way that we have allowed money to subvert our democracy. I am appalled at the way that… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
I see a violation of human rights not in the mere fact that people don't have enough to eat and that they… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
I would like to ask all those who have positions of responsibility in economic, political and social life, and all men and… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second,… — Xi Jinping Copy Share Image
If responsibility for the upbringing of children is to continue to be vested in the family, then the rights of children will… — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
![“I strongly believe that we can create a poverty-free world, if we want to… In that kind of world, [the] only place you can see poverty is in the museum. When school children will be on a tour of the poverty museum, they will be horrified to see the misery and indignity of human beings. They will…” quote by Muhammad Yunus](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/6b7/muhammad-yunus-2158_believe_i-strongly-believe-that-we-can-create-a_2616379.jpg)
