I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of… — Hans Rosling Copy Share Image
As we progress as a species, we will unlock new means for enhancing our lives at every turn - and our conceptions… — Joe Lonsdale Copy Share Image
“Why are record numbers of Americans on food stamps? Because record numbers of Americans are in poverty. Why are people falling through… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Riches seem to come to the poor in spirit, the poor in interest and joy. To put it straight - the very… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Ignorance and poverty are the best condiments for the great feast of the world, but the inexperienced and poor are never invited… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The debate that I'm interested in having is with seriously smart people about how we design institutions in the 21st century that… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
If you want poor people to work you restore their incentive by giving them less, such as by cutting social services. If… — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
It is poverty's speech that seeks us out the most. It is older than the oldest speech of Rome. This is the… — Wallace Stevens (1879_1955 Copy Share Image
At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by illusion, a point of pure truth, a… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Peace is not just the absence of war. True peace depends upon creating the opportunity that makes life worth living. And to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When schools truly become centers of the community, where you have extraordinary teachers, the best teachers, the best principals, great nonprofit partners… — Arne Duncan Copy Share Image
All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud,… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
So far it has been assumed that the only pregnancies which are aborted are accidental ones and the only foetuses destroyed those… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“I hate my country. There are so many rich people who don't share their shit. They're like spoiled little ten-year-old bullies on… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
Here's Williams' roadmap out of poverty: Complete high school; get a job, any kind of a job; get married before having children;… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
In the poorest countries...it is women who are the key to breaking out of poverty...and preparing another generation for...leading their countries into… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
I didn’t create poverty. This church didn’t create poverty. Poverty is not an issue, human suffering is not an issue at all,… — Peter Akinola Copy Share Image
The hard part that I had to go through in life, period, is living in poverty and not being able to get… — Derrick Rose Copy Share Image
Credit is a human right that should be treated as a human right. If credit can be accepted as a human right,… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“Disease is certainly not a sin. And poverty is not a sin; it is a condition, a circumstance that allows God’s work… — Katie J. Davis Copy Share Image
If you can't go to secondary school, the boys get to go and the girls don't, you're locked into a cycle of… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
“To measure your time management you must access yourself by how many products you were able to produce on that particular day,… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
We could also say that there is only one real kind of poverty: not living as children of God and brothers and… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“If you are generous, you are rich, no matter how little you have; if you are stingy, you are poor, no matter… — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
We are unnecessarily wasting our precious resources in wars... if we must wage war, we have to do it on unemployment, disease,… — Atal Bihari Vajpayee Copy Share Image
Nowhere in the world, in no act of genocide, in no war, are so many people killed per minute, per hour and… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
Most of the characters in 'The Little Rascals' were living in poverty, but they decided to focus on the joy of being… — Sean Baker Copy Share Image
Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
My appeal to the rich is, Deal liberally with your poor brethren, and use your means to advance the cause of God.… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Finally I got to the point where I said, I'd like to start a project where we can actually talk about race… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
Being a young kid from the hood in Paris, growing up in poverty and then scoring the goal that took Chelsea to… — Demba Ba Copy Share Image
Poverty can turn a person into a flaming torch for change and revolution, without which mankind would come to a standstill. — Jean Sasson Copy Share Image
part of the problem with a war on poverty today is that many Americans have decided that being poor is a character… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
... those, who from an immoderate and false self-love, study to keep their humanity under, always take care, for their own sakes,… — Mary Collyer Copy Share Image
“Instead he was grabbing at whatever was available in this system that no longer held the old predictable relationship between effort and… — Panashe Chigumadzi Copy Share Image
“The homeless dudes on Alameda all have legs any runway model would kill for, and sometimes I think of giving them money,… — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
In this life you can take poverty, you can take failure, you can take the big things; it's the little griefs that… — Hedda Hopper Copy Share Image
