Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil.… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
You know all the money we spend on nuclear weapons and defence every year? Trillions of dollars? Correct? Trillions. Instead, if we… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
From religion ... they will learn the only true lesson of equality - the conviction that our destinies are not in our… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Nothing was easy, and sometimes she failed, and sometimes she thought that the fairy stories were right, that there must indeed be… — Sonya Hartnett Copy Share Image
Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
We should govern our actions by assuming that people are more good than bad. Whereas, most of our social policies dictate that… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
Money is one of the greatest instruments of freedom ever invented by man. It is money which in existing society opens an… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Several national tests have revealed the following startling statistics about why salespeople fail...15% Improper training both product and sales skills. 20% Poor… — Jeffrey Gitomer Copy Share Image
We cannot continue to mourn about our country being poor while our minerals are lying untapped and with harvesting at Lake Natron,… — Jakaya Kikwete Copy Share Image
What profession is more trying than that of author? After you finish a piece of work it only seems good to you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but the stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till… — Stephen Johnson Field Copy Share Image
Knapsack of the Metaphysicians.- Those who boast so mightily of the scientificality of their metaphysics should receive no answer; it is enough… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Our poor eyes were so enriched as to behold, and our low hearts so exalted as to love, a maid who is… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel and it must remain undivided."Truth: Obama later said, "This was an example where we had… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“[A man], who is in prosperity, while he sees that others have to contend with great wretchedness and that he could help… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
there i was in late middle age, cut loose in a thoroughly looted, bankrupt nation whose assets had been sold off to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It's obsequious little nicety-nice girls like me who allow assholes to run the world: Miss Harlot O'Harlots, billionaire phony tree huggers, hypocrite… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I would say that the one incredible thing that Karachi has going for it is the unabated supply of new migrants that… — Steve Inskeep Copy Share Image
When the press writes scare stories about the global labor supply draining jobs from rich to poor places, the story is usually… — Richard Sennett Copy Share Image
Mallory dropped her head to the steering wheel. "Look, I'm mad at you, okay? This isn't about me. I know my painful… — Jill Shalvis Copy Share Image
Overall, female scientists have fewer resources than male scientists, just as poor people have less access to health care. But if you… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
The Jewish usurers are fast-rooted even in the smallest villages, and if they lend five gulden they require a security of six… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
Fishes do not roar; they cannot express any sound of suffering; and therefore the angler chooses to think they do not suffer,… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
...99% of the casualties linked to climate change occur in developing countries. Worst hit are the world's poorest groups. While climate change… — Rajendra K. Pachauri Copy Share Image
“I really believe that if the political leaders of the world could see their planet from a distance of, let's say 100,000… — Michael Collins Copy Share Image
The invention of the micro-loan was a big surprise to me. Who would have guessed loans of less than $20 made to… — Joel A. Barker Copy Share Image
When I pick up a person from the street, hungry, I give him a plate of rice, a piece of bread. But… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I think philanthropy is also growing and catching on. Figuring out how the philanthropy sector, which is quite small compared to the… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“Nina sniffed, shifting her shoulders to look at the sky through the branches. "She's a sweet girl, but poor." Ire pricked through… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
We must act now and wake up to our moral obligations. The poor and vulnerable are members of God's family and are… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and happy that now think of themselves… — Daniel Everett Copy Share Image
I became a soldier, not because I had a military vocation initially, but because it was the only way that that young,… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
Bail out the bankers and bankrupt the school teachers - we will still teachI will never follow the lead of those who… — John Kuhn Copy Share Image
In a composite Nation like ours, made up of almost every variety of the human family, there should be, as before the… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The death of Jesus was the opening and the emptying of the full heart of God; it was the outgushing of that… — Octavius Winslow Copy Share Image
'Is that really the best you can say? An average-looking boy? An awful lot of boys are average-looking, S.Q.!' And poor S.Q.,… — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
One of the great problems of the world today is undoubtedly this problem of not being able to talk to scientists, because… — Michael Flanders Copy Share Image
Some men are born to good luck: all they do or try to do comes right—all that falls to them is so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image