I fight for the environment because we only have one planet, but I see how the environment affects poverty and how the… — Sophia Bush 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
“It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
As an anthropology major, I wanted to understand the cultural significance of poverty - why it exists and why some countries can… — Lauren Bush Copy Share Image
Traditionally the great men of our country have sprung from poor environments; that being so, it would appear we have long suffered… — Gerald F. Lieberman Copy Share Image
We Live In A Paradoxical World... Where Poor People Walk Many Kilometers To Earn For Food.. While, The Rich Walk A Great… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
Great numbers of Asian Americans do not fit the model minority or 'tiger family' stereotypes, living instead in multigenerational poverty far from… — Eric Liu 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
Mother Earth is in pain and ailing - bglobal warming. The world is dealing with issues of immigration, deindustrialization, and poverty. When… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
I think for a certain demographic of American families that are not living below the poverty line, what is now becoming the… — Reshma Saujani Copy Share Image
Once I knew the City very well, spent my attic days there, while others were being a lost generation in Paris, I… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Government-to-government foreign aid promotes statism, centralized planning, socialism, dependence, pauperization, inefficiency, and waste. It prolongs the poverty it is designed to cure.… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The riches of the rich are not the cause of the poverty of anybody; the process that makes some people rich is,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Bhagavad Gita is very relevant to modern times when you see things like global warming, climate chaos, changing weather patterns, natural disasters… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
A simple life is not seeing how little we can get by with-that's poverty-but how efficiently we can put first things first.… — Victoria Moran Copy Share Image
Many problems that challenge us today can be traced back to a profound tension between what is good and desirable for society… — Martin Nowak Copy Share Image
There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor, that's what the Statue of Bigotry says. Your poor huddled masses, let's just club… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
“When you understand the value of time, the resource and the wealth of time, you will be running away from the crowd,… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
We cannot confront the massive challenges of poverty, hunger, disease and environmental destruction unless we address issues of population and reproductive health — Thoraya Obaid Copy Share Image
There are tens, perhaps hundreds of millions of people living in poverty and danger who might readily seek to enter a Western… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
“If you devote three to six hours of your time every day to practicing anything repeatedly, in the next five years, you… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The elimination of profit, whatever methods may be resorted to for its execution, must transform society into a senseless jumble. It would… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Americans think African writers will write about the exotic, about wildlife, poverty, maybe AIDS. They come to Africa and African books with… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“More than a fifth of our children live in poverty—the second worst of all the advanced economies, putting us behind countries like… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Poverty and backwardness in the midst of clear waters and verdant mountains is no good, nor is it to have prosperity and… — Li Keqiang Copy Share Image
There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
My God, give me neither poverty nor riches; but whatsoever it may be Thy will to give, give me with it a… — Christian Scriver Copy Share Image
“Nor am I nostalgic, as a French philosopher once wrote, for a lost poverty. I am nostalgic for the solidarity and sharing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Despite the hundreds of non-governmental organizations and the continued outpouring of foreign aid, East Africa remains as a region overwhelmed by extreme… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
“When you are able to overcome distractions, then you will be able to do something more specific, something more precise and definite… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
People say 'Poor guy.' That insults me. I despise sympathy. So I screwed up. I made some mistakes. 'Poor guy,' like I'm… — Mike Tyson 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
I experienced how foreign aid for large-scale vaccination projects helps to save the life of children and thus give a real input… — Jonas Gahr Store Copy Share Image
“A Life of poverty is not as bad as it looks through the wealthy person's eye, neither is the life of the… — Shon Mehta Copy Share Image
If our life is not a course of humility, self-denial, renunciation of the world, poverty of spirit, and heavenly affection, we do… — William Law Copy Share Image
Abject poverty is demeaning, is an assault on the dignity of those that suffer it. In the end it demeans us all.… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“He who restrains himself within the limits prescribed by nature, will not feel poverty; he who exceeds them will always be poor,… — Seneca Copy Share Image
