“The difference between working for a salary and working for your promise land is that when you work for a salary, you… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
He wondered if what he had taken for the richness of silence was really the poverty of never being heard [...]. How… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Material success is not something that will bind you, unless you become attached to it, any more than poverty will liberate you. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one's full potential as a human… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity. — Abdolkarim Soroush Copy Share Image
“Racism—if you look closely—is about profit. The whole system was built on it. War—if you look closely—is about profit. Poverty, which is… — Stan Goff Copy Share Image
I was an aid worker for a decade and then worked in the voluntary sector in the U.K. on U.K. child poverty… — Jo Cox Copy Share Image
poverty ... is very bad for the formation of a personality. ... Not until I knew for certain where my next meal… — Helen Westley Copy Share Image
To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I recognize that individuals and organizations with tremendous financial clout and open access to the political system in the post-Citizens United era,… — Sasha Abramsky Copy Share Image
For centuries, as pope and emperor tore each other apart in their quarrels over power, the excluded went on living on the… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Riches and rank have no necessary connection with genuine gentlemanly qualities. The poor man with rich spirit is in all ways superior… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
This growing poverty in the midst of growing population constitutes a permanent menace to peace. And not only to peace, but also… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Slowly, God is opening my eyes to needs all around me. In Scripture, God revisits this issue of caring for the poor-… — Margaret Feinberg Copy Share Image
I've had two great years, probably five good years. So I had 20 years of just kind of uncertainty and suffering and… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
The next most dangerous thing [after nuclear proliferation] is probably... global warming, and then, right behind that are overpopulation -- we need… — Ted Turner Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Poverty is no crime; always remember that. After all, why should we despair? Our present difficulties will pass away, and God will… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Leave the poor Some time for self-improvement. Let them not Be forced to grind the bones out of their arms For bread,… — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
Many of the snarly bad-tempered teachers whom we remember with hatred were really nice people soured by years of anxiety and penny-pinching. — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
“It is the peculiar lowness of poverty that you discover first; the shifts that it puts you to, the complicated meanness, the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I loathed poverty and I would have liked to put my hands on the party who said that poverty is an honorable… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
But will this attention to poverty be sustained or transient? That depends on our leaders - whether we step up and sustain… — John Edward Copy Share Image
“Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I believe we should appoint a cabinet-level position that will be solely and fully devoted to ending poverty as we know it… — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
Money is human kind's greatest invention. Money doesn't discriminate. Money doesn't care whether a person is poor, whether a person comes from… — Takafumi Horie 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 Copy Share Image
“Most people who possess life, in reality, do not quite understand that they possess life only because they possess time.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I saw people rise out of poverty right in front of me. ... It made me believe that the market was the… — Paul Rice Copy Share Image
The Arab soul is broken by poverty, unemployment, and general recession. The Tunisian revolution is not far from us. The Arab citizen… — Amr Moussa Copy Share Image
“The secret of all greatness is to discover what you were born to do in life and then do it. You must… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
People with a culture of poverty suffer much less from repression than we of the middle class suffer and indeed, if I… — Brian Friel Copy Share Image
In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the conditions of existence in our… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Acting on our own, by ourselves, we cannot establish justice throughout the world, but joined with other free nations, we can ...… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Coronavirus has exposed for all what many of us already knew - some of our most important workers have barely enough to… — Caroline Lucas Copy Share Image
[French intellectuals] could never address themselves to the working classes. They don't know what it means, and that gives them a bad… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
Bill Clinton championed discriminatory laws against formerly incarcerated people that have kept millions of Americans locked in a cycle of poverty and… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“If you don’t have any results to show for all your passing time, then you must have been trivializing time and you… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The extermination of millions of unborn children, in the name of the fight against poverty, actually constitutes the destruction of the poorest… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Poverty is such a relative thing; but no man is really poor till life becomes a desert island that gives him neither… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
![“He wondered if what he had taken for the richness of silence was really the poverty of never being heard [...]. How could he have forgotten what he had always known: there is no match for the silence of God.” quote by Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/edf/nicole-krauss-920_forgotten_he-wondered-if-what-he-had-taken-for-the_2746450.jpg)
![“The next most dangerous thing [after nuclear proliferation] is probably... global warming, and then, right behind that are overpopulation -- we need to get serious about family planning-and trying to alleviate poverty, to get clean, renewable energy, probably with solar panels to the billion and a…” quote by Ted Turner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dcf/ted-turner-2784_about-family_the-next-most-dangerous-thing-after-nucl_200482.jpg)
![“[French intellectuals] could never address themselves to the working classes. They don't know what it means, and that gives them a bad conscience about it. [Albert] Camus has a greater proximity to those in poverty.” quote by Catherine Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/45a/catherine-camus-12238_addresses_french-intellectuals-could-never-address_2766658.jpg)
