If you believe that when the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, then you believe that creating wealth causes poverty, and… — Michael Medved Copy Share Image
You speak of poverty and dependence. Who are poor and dependent? Who are rich and independent? When was it that men agreed… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When Michael Jackson, a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich, white woman, married Elvis Presley's daughter the Scientologist.… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the… — Abbe Pierre Copy Share Image
Decades of Saddam’s rule made what could have been a fairly rich country, due to its oil reserves, into a very poor… — Chris Kyle Copy Share Image
Rich or poor, we all need organizations that can represent us; we all need modes of collective action when individual action does… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
Martin King was fundamentally committed to the least of these [poor, working people]. Of course, he was a Christian soldier for justice… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Obviously, personal responsibility is important. But there's no evidence that people who are poor are less ambitious than anyone else. In fact,… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
From high Meonia's rocky shores I came, Of poor decsent, Acoetes is my name, My sire was measly born: no oxen ploughed,… — Ovid Copy Share Image
And when we go to church, read our Bibles, have our quiet times, and go to Christian conferences, we too can build… — Richard Stearns Copy Share Image
No matter whether it is their intention or not, almost anything that the rich can legally do tends to help the poor.… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Well, in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit With Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit, And, in strong proff of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I've always been leery of comical artists because I think oftentimes they're hiding the fact that they're not that talented. For example,… — Diego Cortez Copy Share Image
To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs:… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
I wouldn't necessarily assume that because Capricornia has traditionally been a Labor seat, that it'll go back to the Labor Party this… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
You have to be very productive in order to become excellent. You have to go through a poor period and a mediocre… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“poor ain’t poor unless you name it so & kids prefer playing to counting so there was never much time to wallow… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
Who fathoms the Eternal Thought? Who talks of scheme and plan? The Lord is God! He needeth not The poor device of… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
Poor artist! You gave away part of your soul when you painted the picture which you are now trying to dispose of. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor,… — Emily Greene Balch Copy Share Image
Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We have police stations for the poor but CBI, CVC and CAGs for the rich with nearly nil recovery of ill usurped… — Arvind Kejriwal Copy Share Image
Ultimate Reality is not clearly and immediately apprehended except by those who have made themselves loving, pure in heart and poor in… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I am no metaphysician, no philosopher, nay, no saint. But I am poor and I love the poor. I see what they… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In education, they say either property taxes have to go up, or we'll have poor education - that's a false choice. — Scott Walker Copy Share Image
I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
The irony of Christmas is always upon the poor in heart; the mystery of the solstice is always upon the rest of… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies...that which to us is merely an evening's meal, but to them is life… — T. Casey Brennan Copy Share Image
We came from a poor, poor family and for them to see me winning a trophy in front of 90,000 people and… — Emiliano Martinez Copy Share Image
If a man successful in business expends a part of his income in things of no real use, while the poor employed… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
Do console your poor friend, who is so troubled to see his paintings so miserable, so sad, next to the radiant nature… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Copy Share Image
I am from the poor people; I represent the poor people. I like workers. I like people that suffer because these people… — Roberto Clemente Copy Share Image
I've had my share of problems along the way. Don't get me wrong, because there is no school for this. You go… — Steve Harvey Copy Share Image
We talk of the enormous virtues of work, but it turns out that that is mostly for the poor. If you're rich… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“For when he was poor, he had an unpretentious heart, but when he became rich, he became filled with arrogance.” — Charmaine J Forde Copy Share Image
Good governance is treating development as a mass movement in order to see that fruits of development reach the poor and the… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
At the most basic level, the key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
The real solution to the problem of poverty consists in finding how to increase the employment and earning power of the poor. — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Wealth means nothing at all if you do not know, to the last penny, what your fortune is. You might as well… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image