A truly moral nation enacts policies that encourage personal responsibility and discourage self-destructive behavior by not subsidizing people who live irresponsibly and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The cruel injustice is that even though the world’s poor are doing essentially nothing to cause climate change, they’re going to suffer… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
My father was a Presbyterian minister, working among the poor in West Virginia. He had taken what amounted to a vow of… — James Green Somerville Copy Share Image
Aside from the poor example it sets, the federal government enables reckless spending on public-employee pensions by offering hope of assistance from… — Devin Nunes Copy Share Image
Oh England is a pleasant place for them that's rich and high, But England is a cruel place for such poor folks… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
In a composite nation like ours, as before the law, there should be no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
We used to say poor people had lousy genes. Then we decided that wasn't OK, but we transferred the prejudice to upbringing.… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The only way to end poverty, to make it history, is to build viable systems on the ground that deliver critical and… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
Nothing, not even the best and noblest, can go on as it now is. Nothing, not even what is lowest and most… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm from Naples. I was born in a poor neighborhood and I always, in my heart, felt like it would be amazing… — Giuliana Rancic Copy Share Image
By... [selecting] the youths of genius from among the classes of the poor, we hope to avail the State of those talents… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Poor dusky children of slavery, men and women of my own race-the transition from slavery to freedom was too sudden for you!… — Elizabeth Keckley Copy Share Image
The average businessman began to be agnostic, not so much because he did not know where he was, as because he wanted… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
What you see around the world is that poverty is not destiny. In other countries, much more systemically, student after student, school… — Arne Duncan Copy Share Image
At the piping of all hands,When the judgment-signal's spread-When the islands and the landsAnd the seas give up their dead,And the South… — John Gardiner Calkins Brainard Copy Share Image
Venice Beach: proof of the biological impossibility of imagining a person being simultaneously good-looking and poor. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
When I say, 'Life as a shorty shouldn't be so rough,' I'm talking about me, myself - I grew up poor, but… — Inspectah Deck Copy Share Image
The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned. — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
To be poor and be without trees, is to be the most starved human being in the world. To be poor and… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Jesus announced a great reversal of values in His Sermon on the Mount, elevating not the rich or attractive, but rather the… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
There's an old saying,'It's a poor craftsman who blames his tools.' It's usually the player who misses those three-footers, not the putter. — Kathy Whitworth Copy Share Image
..And the same rapper who revels in a woman's finely proportioned behind may also speak against racism and on behalf of the… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
What if angry vectors veer Round your sleeping head, and form. There's never need to fear Violence of the poor world's abstract… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
If you've got a billion dollars and you're ungrateful, you're a poor man. If you have very little but you're grateful for… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Anybody who runs for president in this country and comes out as strong as the Democrats were about helping the poor folks… — Charles Evers Copy Share Image
Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I have nothing but contempt for you idiotic chosen ones who have the heart to rejoice when there are the damned in… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
When someone brutally kills someone else, we call him "animalistic." But we consider ourselves "human" when we give to the poor. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Reagan's approach will achieve one of the basic goals of the conservative: Things remain basically the same. The rich stay rich and… — Mike Royko Copy Share Image
Wretched are the poor that sell their hopes instead of a filling meal part of a day or a pail... and a… — Mariana Fulger Copy Share Image
The most wonderful street in the universe is Broadway. It is a world within itself. High and low, rich and poor, pass… — Frank Rich Copy Share Image
I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes. — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
I took upon myself to enact the part of a poor, unfortunate crazy girl, and felt it my duty not to shirk… — Nellie Bly Copy Share Image
I'm very grateful that I was too poor to get to art school until I was 21. . . I was old… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And on the way home I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.” — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
An advanced city is not one where even the poor use cars, but rather one where even the rich use public transport. — Enrique Peñalosa Londoño Copy Share Image
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