A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty. — David Hume Copy Share Image
“no poverty of any kind, except of conversation, appeared—but there, the deficiency was considerable.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“But the lesson of those years is that the ruling class can't be relied upon to redistribute wealth and power.” — Selina Todd Copy Share Image
Sometimes poverty is the greatest gift you can ever be given. Sometimes loss is the key that leads you to gain. — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In this great country of ours, it is inexcusable that so many children grow up in poverty and despair. The well-being of… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Many of my contemporaries in the developed world see subsistence farming as soulful and organic, but it is a poverty trap and… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
“Your time keeps flying away into vanity while you dine with your distractions. Your life keeps diminishing while you waste your time… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
It's important to remember that, while poverty certainly makes single life harder, it also makes married life harder - so much harder… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Instead of looking at difficulties as deprivations, we can learn to recognize them as opportunities for deepening and widening our love. — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
Policies are also to blame: the only thing that the governments and people can come up with to give to the poor… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
There are millions and millions of people who are thrown in the midst of poverty and starvation. Animals don't die of starvation,… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
We create institutions and policies on the basis of the way we make assumptions about us and others. We accept the fact… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey,… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
In a perfect world what poor countries at the lowest rungs of economic development need is not a multi-party democracy, but in… — Dambisa Moyo Copy Share Image
“Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more.… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
There is still an assumption among many people that to be black is to be lower class. In the last fifteen to… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
An economy cannot long remain prosperous by government's taxing and spending more, now absorbing national output at a rate equal to the… — John Hospers Copy Share Image
“The municipality sent water through six Annawadi faucets for ninety minutes in the morning and ninety minutes at night. Shiv Sena men… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
“For you to be great, you must learn to convert every second of your life.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Time is the raw material from which products are made, when products are sold, money is made.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“Finish the most important tasks and stop wasting time on irrelevant activities.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Poverty existed before January 20, 2008, OK? Before President Obama took office. — Hill Harper Copy Share Image
Progress is more plausibly judged by the reduction of deprivation than by the further enrichment of the opulent — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
“Poor people waste time, rich people save time. Poor people who invest time are no longer poor.” — Alin Sav Copy Share Image
The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Everybody potentially can be great. It is not only some few people who could be great.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time. — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“For you not to waste or spend your life, you must first understand that time is life and life is time.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
