As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty and… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
New technology lets you grow the resource pie, which is the only way you can get out between that pincer of rising… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
We believe that poverty does not belong in a civilized human society. It belongs in museums [...] A poverty-free world might not… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
“You can create the best out of your life by understanding the wealth of time and converting that time into the life… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“If you recieved a nickel for every act of your kindness and had to pay a nickel for every act of your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You know what you learn when you study the legal system? Poor people pass down damage the way rich people pass down… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
Time and again we’ve seen that reducing poverty comes down to economic opportunity-not just connecting the poor to services like banking, but… — Leila Janah Copy Share Image
Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Between 1965 (the beginning of LBJ's "Great Society") and 1994, welfare spending has cost the taxpayers $5.4 trillion in constant 1993 dollars.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“So long as I confine my activities to social service and the blind, they compliment me extravagantly, calling me ‘arch priestess of… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“Is this a holy thing to see, In a rich and fruitful land, Babes reduced to misery, Feed with cold and usurous… — William Blake Copy Share Image
As liberals, men like Richter viewed socialism as the great modern counter-revolution, and believed that the achievement of the socialist goal would… — Ralph Raico Copy Share Image
The Civilized… murder their children by producing too many of them without being able to provide for their well-being. Morality or theories… — Charles Fourier Copy Share Image
“If we are going to spend the bulk of our public dollars on the affluent — at least when it comes to… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“Stale beer sticks to wobbling tables. The cigarette machine flashes in the corner, mocking smokers who never have any change on them.… — Craig Stone Copy Share Image
“Silently, she wondered whether this was the same desperation, the same impotence that grips many men by their shirts, their T-shirts, their… — Panashe Chigumadzi Copy Share Image
If we see someone who needs help, do we stop? There is so much suffering and poverty, and a great need for… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Each individual person is very important. Each person has tremendous potential. She or he alone can influence the lives of others within… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Take benefit of five before five: Your youth before your old age, Your health before your sickness, Your wealth before your poverty,… — Prophet Muhammad (PBUH Copy Share Image
I was aware that a quarter of the children in the country are born in poverty, and that the condition of public… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
From this vision of the role of the United Nations in the next century flow three key priorities for the future: eradicating… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
If we have an honest discussion on whether the war on poverty should be fought with welfare or with economic growth in… — Alveda King Copy Share Image
We're also going to fix our inner cities. Forty-five percent of African-American children are - under the age six - are living… — Donald Trump 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
The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need, it's the feeling of being embarrassed every… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
If I care about poverty, I have to care a lot about investments in the private sector. The private sector creates the… — Jim Yong Kim Copy Share Image
We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
“How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative… — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
“When your race on earth is finally over and your time has completely disappeared, what will continue to live on in the… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Are we going to solve the issue of poverty? Absolutely not. Are we going to have an impact? I'm committed to it,… — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
“The recession and regression of any society are always an indication of how poorly the citizens of that country understand the value… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“His strength for your weakness! His wisdom for your folly! His drive for your drift! His grace for your greed! His love… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Abject poverty, political instability, torture, and other abuses push thousands across our border. There is not a deterrent imaginable that equals the… — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
In the Bible poverty is a scandalous condition inimical to human dignity and therefore contrary to the will of God. — Gustavo Gutiérrez Copy Share Image
Thank God for poverty That makes and keeps us free And lets us go our unobtrusive way, Glad of the sun and… — Bliss Carman Copy Share Image
Wealth brings with it refinement, the spirit of conservation, while poverty inspires adventurous ideas, the desire to change things, and has little… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
Desires to which we cling closely can easily prevent us from being what we ought to be and can be; and on… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
This is not about charity, it's about justice... The war against terror is bound up in the war against poverty - I… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image