Once thrift shops hit your district it is a good sign that more citizens are being squeezed out of house and home. — Martin Dansky Copy Share Image
These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
David Cameron needs to get his head out of the sand. He and his colleagues need to see what poverty is really… — Luciana Berger Copy Share Image
I am from a poor background in Portugal. We were medium-down, not down-and-out. My parents felt problems around food in the past… — Carlos Carvalhal Copy Share Image
“I do not want to be rich yet live a life of unhappiness. I also do not want to be poor, because… — Gift Gugu Mona Copy Share Image
Look at any country that's plagued with poverty, disease or violence; the antidote is girls. Girls are the antibodies to many of… — Queen Rania of Jordan Copy Share Image
A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
No one who works a full-time job should live in poverty. It's that simple. We must stand on the side of hard-working… — Alex Padilla Copy Share Image
As we mourn President Mandela’s passing we must ask ourselves the fundamental question - what shall we do to respond to the… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
“Housework, handicrafts, subsistence agriculture, radical technology, learning exchanges, and the like are degraded into activities for the idle, the unproductive, the very… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
This problem will knock on the doors of all of us, whether through uncontrolled and unmanageable migration flows, by means of diseases… — Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla Copy Share Image
The stark truth is that as long as the welfare state makes it possible for young women - or teenage girls -… — David Boaz Copy Share Image
Work, work, proletarians, to increase social wealth and your individual poverty; work, work, in order that becoming poorer, you may have more… — Paul Lafargue Copy Share Image
The legacy of slavery comes from the sustained political, legal and economic effort to link permanently an entire group of people to… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
The Indian economy grew at 5.5 percent, but if you look at the last 30 years - for example, 1960 to 1985… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
I was born to a black childhood of confusion and poverty. The memory of that beginning influences my work today, It is… — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
I'm not a philanthropist. While I care about the poor, the issue of local or global poverty doesn't keep me up at… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
Those who despise fame seldom deserve it. We are apt to undervalue the purchase we cannot reach, to conceal our poverty the… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
“Pope John Paul II once said as well, “Lebanon is a message more than it is a country.” Now this diversity has… — Rami Ollaik Copy Share Image
In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: "Do not turn away a poor man...even if all you can give is half a date. If… — Muhammad ibn Isa at-Tirmidhi Copy Share Image
The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the… — Josiah Strong Copy Share Image
I have tremendous confidence in the capacity of the poor to transform not only their own lives but also to build a… — Ruth Manorama Copy Share Image
The only way to break the cycle of unwed motherhood, fatherless children, poverty, crime, and welfare is to recognize that welfare causes… — David Boaz Copy Share Image
“To be truly great, begin to convert all your passing time into products. Begin to invest your time into your purpose and… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“It’s a pity that majority of people on earth are either not measuring their lives at all or are measuring their lives… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Poverty destroys Americans every day by means of confrontations with the law, disease, pollution, violence and despair. — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
Any time you have poverty, joblessness, sub-par public schools, and a lack of opportunity, you're going to have a high rate of… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
“The dilemma is, in the United States, each penniless citizen believes that, with luck, he might become a millionaire; and so doesn't… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Defeating malaria is absolutely critical to ending poverty, improving the health of millions, and enabling future generations to reach their full potential. — Tedros Adhanom Copy Share Image
“Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will… — Martin H. Manser Copy Share Image
There can be no peace as long as there is grinding poverty, social injustice, inequality, oppression, environmental degradation, and as long as… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Look round, the wrecks of play behold; Estates dismember'd, mortgaged, sold! Their owners now to jails confin'd, Show equal poverty of mind. — John Gay Copy Share Image
“The key to your greatness is under your control. You are the one in charge of your life and how great you… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I will use the rest of my life to help the poor overcome the problems confronting them - poverty is the greatest… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
We have the ability now to arrange global economic institutions so that poverty declines to a fraction of what it is now. — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country. — Azim Premji Copy Share Image
