“The poor man, a term which means the man who doesn't know how to operate and release the riches of his mind,… — Joseph Murphy Copy Share Image
“You see, it is my passionately held belief that the right to possess property is at best a contingent one. When disparities… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I think President Barack Obama is going to be treated very, very well by history in terms of his ability to save… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The problems we face today, violent conflicts, destruction of nature, poverty, hunger and so on, are human-created problems which can be resolved… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“The millions of vacationers who came here every year before Katrina were mostly unaware of this poverty. French Quarter tourists were rarely… — Billy Sothern Copy Share Image
We have begun a throw away culture. This tendency is seen on the level of individuals and whole societies; and it is… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Philips, whose touch harmonious could remove The pangs of guilty power and hapless love! Rest here, distress'd by poverty no more; Here… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
No one knows my struggle, they only see the trouble. Not knowing its hard to carry on when no one loves you.… — Unknowns Copy Share Image
The evident character of this defective cognition of which mathematics is proud, and on which it plumes itself before philosophy, rests solely… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“Don't drive a car in the dream, else you won't drive it on earth. Don't wish to become, else you won't become.… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Tipsy, they tumbled early into bed - to get as much sleep as they could. So they would feel less hunger. The… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
The country is in the worst conditions ever in its history. It's unjustifiable that in a country with the largest petroleum reserves… — Henrique Capriles Radonski Copy Share Image
My father and his eight siblings grew up in the kind of poverty that Americans don't like to talk about unless a… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
[The right] may never bring prayer back to schools, but it has rescued all manner of rightwing economic nostrums from history's dustbins.… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
“In his 1907 retirement address, Joseph Pulitzer urged his successors to always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
“I've never understood it,' continued Wilfred Carr, yawning. 'It's not in my line at all; I never had enough money for my… — W.W. Jacobs Copy Share Image
In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I challenge British Muslims to accept that as strongly as they feel about Iraq or counter-terrorism measures, poverty and inequality have the… — Sadiq Khan Copy Share Image
Poverty is a national waste as well as individual waste. We are all diminished when any of us are denied proper education.… — Gough Whitlam Copy Share Image
Poverty in Egypt, or anywhere else, is not very difficult to explain. There are three basic causes: People are poor because they… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
One day there springs up the desire for money and for all that money can provide - the superfluous, luxury in eating,… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“We're not as free and independent as we thought. Street-level work that disrupts the infrastructure (the sewer system below or the electrical… — Matthew B. Crawford Copy Share Image
The scientific community having made a rapid ascent from deep poverty to great affluence, from academe's cloisters to Washington's high councils, still… — Daniel S Greenberg Copy Share Image
True evangelical faith, cannot lie dormant, it clothes the naked, it feeds the hungry, it comforts the sorrowful, it shelters the destitute,… — Menno Simons Copy Share Image
Don't be a writer; it's a terrible way to live your life. There's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Which statements are true according to the passage? A) Science, governments, and your doctor should be trusted. B) 'Comforting her deep into… — Tupelo Hassman Copy Share Image
No matter how much I wanted all those things that I needed money to buy, there was some devilish current pushing me… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
If that's your definition of the Clinton faction, then I think that that seems to be in ascendancy. That might include a… — John Podesta Copy Share Image
It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
“There are millions of people who believe themselves “doomed” to poverty and failure, because of some strange force over which they believe… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
I am proud to live in a country with an African-American president. But President Obama cannot be proud of the fact that… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
Man! The most complex of creatures, and for this reason the most dependant of creatures. On everything that has formed you, you… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Twenty per cent of American children grow up in poverty, and that means they get inadequate nutrition, inadequate health care, and because… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
“It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
What we've undergone in recent decades worldwide has been totally insane, and all of this is a result of capitalism. The workforce… — Rafael Correa Copy Share Image
“If you don’t monitor your life, you will regret it. If you don’t measure your life you will regret it. If you… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“How reprehensible it is when those blessed with commodities insist on ignoring the poor. Better to torment them, force them into indentured… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
There's much talk about how there can't be democracy in a region that has problems of illiteracy and poverty. But I bring… — Bobby Ghosh Copy Share Image