If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Look how the world's poor people are amazed at apparitions, signs and prodigies! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“You see life is predictable. What you do with your time now will dictate how your life will become tomorrow.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Where penury is felt the thought is chain'd, And sweet colloquial pleasures are but few. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Contrary to age-old prejudices, the wealth of the rich is not the cause of the poverty of the poor, but helps to… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt… — Iqbal Quadir Copy Share Image
[It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
We speak here of the challenge of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and non-violence, racism and human dignity, oppression and… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
[Giving welfare to poor people] is the equivalent of the government sending [fat people] a jumbo bag of Bugles in the mail… — Adam Carolla Copy Share Image
It's outrageous to line your pockets off the misery of the poor; It's outrageous, the crimes some human beings must endure... — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
“Your life must be planned in such a way that you could get to a stage when you can say every day… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Having stumbled upon a tolerable career, for the first time in my life I was actually living above the poverty line. My… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“Where the conditions to which material progress... are most fully realized... where wealth is greatest... we find the deepest poverty, the sharpest… — 1884 Henry George (Progress and Poverty Copy Share Image
“It required all his delicate Epicurean education to prevent his doing something about it; he had to repeat over to himself his… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
I think it's important for people to say look, what does each party and each candidate have to offer for you. If… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
When I consider how little of a rarity children arethat every street and blind alley swarms with themthat the poorest people commonly… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Go forth today, by the help of God's Spirit, vowing and declaring that in life - come poverty, come wealth, in death… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
This is what people don't understand: obesity is a symptom of poverty. It's not a lifestyle choice where people are just eating… — Tom Colicchio Copy Share Image
“What I remember most of those times is that poverty creates desperation, and desperation creates violence.” — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
“When you invest more time into something than others, you become the best among equals.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity. — Emmanuel Jal Copy Share Image
“Solitude is a time when you go into a determined period of making the best of your time.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families. — George Gilder Copy Share Image
“Thus God's work and His eyes are in the depths, but man's only in the height.” — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Pity the poor infant. Born perfect into the world from imperfect parents. — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
“I would rather be a poor man in a rich country than a rich man in a poor country.” — Wanchain Copy Share Image
I was the second of six kids. I wouldn't say we were poor; we had no money. That's different. — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
“Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man’s yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight. — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“You can't do much for the poor, as they are not in with the right people.” — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
Yes I graduated from high school. Welfare. Temporary work, please. What is my problem? I want to eat. — Alexis De Veaux Copy Share Image
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