I did not believe what I was told about being poor and black and female in Mississippi in 1954. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
For all of us, it's very hard to think about money, and because of that, we need help. In the same way… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
Once one has realized, following the great English literary visionaries William Shakespeare and Thomas Nashe, that sexual puritanism, political disciplinarianism, and abuse… — John Milbank Copy Share Image
The Grameen clinics prove that a medical system 'for the poor' can be almost entirely self-supporting, and we hope we can make… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Being poor is like being a child. Being rich is like being an adult: you get to do whatever you want. Everyone… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Without the rich - without those who accumulated capital - those poor who could exist at all would be very much poorer… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“I divested myself of despair and fear when I came here. Now there is no more catching one's own eye in the… — Jane Kenyon Copy Share Image
Outsiders tend to be the first to recognize the inadequacies of our social institutions. But, precisely because they are outsiders, they are… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
You know, probably the notion that conservatives, Republicans, only care about the rich and that Democrats care about the poor - is… — Daniel Garza Copy Share Image
Faith is a homely, private capital; as there are public savings-banks and poor funds, out of which in times of want we… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I deny the resurrection every time I turn my back on the poor or become a cog in a system of injustice — Peter Rollins Copy Share Image
Everything starts from prayer. Without asking God for love, we cannot possess love and still less are we able to give it… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I can live well with what I have.I’m called ‘the poorest president’, but I don’t feel poor. Poor people are those who… — Jose Mujica Copy Share Image
The way we use our money is a barometer of our present spiritual condition. Our neglect of the poor illustrates much about… — David Platt Copy Share Image
Art is the closest you can get to immortality, though it's a poor substitute - you're working for people not yet born… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
Think about it: You're trying to raise cash to save an endangered animal. You've got orphaned pandas getting 3 trillion YouTube hits,… — Stephen Rodrick Copy Share Image
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For me, when I think about Christ, I think about this iconoclastic man who lived and died for the broken. And the… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is, that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The chestnut's proud, and the lilac's pretty, The poplar's gentle and tall, But the plane tree's kind to the poor dull city… — E. Nesbit Copy Share Image
We were so poor that my mother would often leave me in a foster home until she could raise enough money to… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
I'm a liberal when it comes to human rights, the poor; so's George Bush. . . . But Liberal and Conservative don't… — Barbara Bush Copy Share Image
When people move from poor countries to America, they quickly adapt in at least one way - their consumption habits. — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
One truism of federal budgeting is that growing deficits force difficult spending decisions, and when they do, programs to help the poor… — Brian Deese Copy Share Image
How a peaceful, uncrowded place with ample wherewithal stays poor is hard to explain. How a conflict-ridden, grossly over-populated place with no… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Anger and humor are like the left and right arm. They complement each other. Anger empowers the poor to declare their uncompromising… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Any way you slice it, increasing the minimum wage in Michigan... is likely to make it more difficult for the working poor… — Paul Kersey Copy Share Image
We're making tin gods out of those poor buffoons in Hollywood; I dote on movies and appreciate the scanty art therein but… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
The death of American liberalism as a significant moral force can be traced to the point in when President Bill Clinton signed… — Robert Scheer Copy Share Image
He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor. — Samuel Johnson 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
If the "rich" were swarming into poor neighborhoods and beating the poor until they coughed up the dimes they swallowed for safekeeping,… — James Lileks 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
In this cash-rich, time-poor culture of ours, the most precious commodity we have is time...volunteering our precious time, is in this brutally… — Sally Brampton Copy Share Image
Is this the real life Is this just fantasy Caught in a landslide No escape from reality Open your eyes, look up… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
