“I believe that the emphasis on curbing population growth diverts attention from the more vital issue of pursuing policies that allow the… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Fundamentalism is not bred in poverty. There are plenty of poor countries in the world that don't have violence because amid the… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair. — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
Giving every girl in the world the chance of a healthy, educated, and economically independent life is essential if we are to… — Alok Sharma Copy Share Image
The impact of NCDs is not only affecting the urban populations but also rural poor. This is compounding the basic problem of… — Marty Natalegawa Copy Share Image
Economic progress and justice do not consist in superbly equalized destitution, but in the constant creation of more and more goods and… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Remember, aid cannot achieve the end of poverty. Only homegrown development base on the dynamism of individuals and firms in free markets… — William Easterly Copy Share Image
The ultimate objective of subsidies should be to empower the poor, to break the cycle of poverty, and become foot-soldiers in our… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
“Illness and death are not the only consequences of the lack of access to water; it also hinders education and economic development.… — Tom Standage Copy Share Image
There is no worse material poverty than one that does not allow for earning one’s bread and deprives one of the dignity… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Humanity will be better served when those in power, privileged and keepers of it's flame realize that poverty is not a crime… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
“Twelve years ago we characterized the scene as poor service, no service, or self-service. Unfortunately, little has changed. As a result, customers… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The foes now are universal - poverty, famine, religious radicalization, desertification, drugs, proliferation of nuclear weapons, ecological devastation. They threaten all nations,… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Women represent 70 percent of the 1.3 billion people in our world who live in absolute poverty. Consequently, as Joan Holmes, president… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
“Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression.” — C.L.R. James Copy Share Image
We have a middle class that lives on a razor blade. So sometimes when you say poverty, you neglect a large portion… — Elizabeth Edwards Copy Share Image
In imitation of our Master, we Christians are called to confront the poverty of our brothers and sisters, to touch it, to… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“A writer is anyone who follows only the truth of who they are, without ever relying on anything other than the poverty… — Christian Bobin Copy Share Image
Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
it is impossible to attack the problem of poverty in the industrialized or the developing world effectively unless the extent to which… — Hilda Scott Copy Share Image
“The desire of most people on earth is to make money and money seems to be the greatest motivation in life for… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
We have to tackle child poverty by getting to people when they are young, through education, giving them hope and making sure… — Heidi Allen Copy Share Image
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists,… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“The poor, I am told, are kind to each other but that is because they have nothing to lose,' he said. 'The… — M.R.C. Kasasian Copy Share Image
There is a proper measure in all things, certain limits beyond which and short of which right is not to be found.… — Horace Copy Share Image
As a nation, there are many issues we don't talk about, we just don't talk about, push them under the rug. Poverty… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A grateful person is rich in contentment. An ungrateful person suffers in the poverty of endless discontentment. — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
“Many of those living in poverty in this country, in fact, would be considered quite wealthy by poor people in other countries.” — Ben Carson Copy Share Image
We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people,… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
... what's been building since the 1980's is a new kind of social Darwinism that blames poverty and crime and the crisis… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“I'm a peasant I'm the muzhik A pest you're destined to play the music And yes it's pleasant to say it's beauty… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“The world awaits your products. Humanity lives in eager expectation of your products. Begin to convert your time into products. Begin to… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Can you ever “solve” poverty? Can you ever “solve” crime? Can you ever “solve” disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes?… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those… — Anzia Yezierska Copy Share Image
Latin Americans have gotten tired of the Washington consensus - a neoliberalism that has aggravated misery and poverty. — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
