I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“It is through solitude that you can convert your time into something of value.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I know what it means to go to the stream to fetch water... what it means when people are poor and don't… — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Copy Share Image
I have seen an entire family lifted out of poverty and into affluence by the simple boon of a broken leg. I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
One day there springs up the desire for money and for all that money can provide — the superfluous, luxury in eating,… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Going in is really more of an acknowledgment that kids in poverty, in their situations, can get out of it, and it… — Marshall Faulk Copy Share Image
There are so many things that are incompatible with a single life. No one can learn fully in one life the lessons… — J. M. E. McTaggart Copy Share Image
Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure-above all, it means loneliness. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
what about Christianity? Are we right in the face of so long a record of its poverty in international achievement, to keep… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money. — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share Image
“The greatest wealth in the world is the wealth of time. There is nothing more precious than the wealth of time. If… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
People who are denied access to power are also denied the opportunity to make or influence decisions to live a better life… — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
Within a single school, teachers often encounter differences in poverty levels, parent involvement, and student readiness. — Charles Best Copy Share Image
Too much dependence on the market has led to growing inequality and poverty, and too much stress on nature has exacerbated the… — Fumio Kishida Copy Share Image
“when you control for poverty, the students in the U.S. outperform nearly every nation across the globe on these same tests.” — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Vacation time is the best time to do solitude because you could just take two weeks of it or one week of… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Love everybody, love for all. Love conquers a lot of things. Even those who hate you, love them. I believe that when… — Young Dovey Copy Share Image
“What Francis heard on February 24, 1208, was this: go and preach, even without formation or ordination! No gold, no silver, no… — Dorothee Soelle Copy Share Image
If you look internationally over the last 50 years there have been improvements in the third world, but in the last 20… — David Korten Copy Share Image
Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them—and by laughing at them… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Honey, it isn’t democracy that runs this country. Capitalism rules. It does no good to reason with the capitalists or their politicians.… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
A pacifism which can see the cruelties only of occasional military warfare and is blind to the continuous cruelties of our social… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Racism is not nearly as important as poverty. That's the same around the world. What look like ethnic problems are really economic… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
China and India are the success stories; rapid growth in large countries is an engine that can make a colossal dent in… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
Most people recognize that to create jobs is really the essential element in their drive against poverty. — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
You can’t lose with the stuff I use!”; “Some may say money is the root of all evil, but being in poverty… — Reverend Ike Copy Share Image
Philips, whose touch harmonious could remove The pangs of guilty power and hapless love! Rest here, distress'd by poverty no more; Here… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The phenomenon of relative deprivation applied to education is called—appropriately enough—the “Big Fish–Little Pond Effect.” The more elite an educational institution is,… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The worst of this ever growing cancer of Statism [ie big 'paternal' government - socialism, communism and fascism] is its moral effect.… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
The free market is notorious for distributing resources in a highly unequal manner, with great concentrations of wealth at the top and… — Linda McQuaig Copy Share Image