The extent of poverty in the world is much exaggerated. Our sensitiveness makes half our poverty; our fears--anxieties for ills that never… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The World Bank adjusts its poverty estimates for differences in prices across countries, but it ignores differences in needs. — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The more millionaires, the more paupers. — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
The noblest people are those despising wealth, learning, pleasure and life; esteeming above them poverty, ignorance, hardship and death. — Diogenes Copy Share Image
“Food in our society is a chronic poverty need, not a life-threatening one. And when we respond to a chronic need as… — Robert D. Lupton Copy Share Image
Economic justice is not just something blacks are crying out for; whites are desperate for it, too. But in the public imagination,… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
Thoughts and words form your mental image. And since we become what we picture be sure your thoughts and words express prosperity… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
“There are places where you can live only when you are healthy, in those places when you fall ill it's the end… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Liberalism had come to mean spending more on everything-speech police, failed poverty programs that reward dependence, a bigger nanny state telling us… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who… — Marvin Olasky Copy Share Image
As we come to know the seriousness of the situation, the war, the racism, the poverty in our world, we come to… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“The phenomenon of relative deprivation applied to education is called—appropriately enough—the “Big Fish–Little Pond Effect.” The more elite an educational institution is,… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“A poor man is not disposed to quick and high resentment when he is among the rich: he is apt to yield… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
I think we start suffering as soon as we come out of the womb. I think that people tend to stereotype. When… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
Reforming the social structures which perpetuate poverty and the exclusion of the poor first requires a conversion of mind and heart. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
In the 21st century, I think the heroes will be the people who will improve the quality of life, fight poverty and… — Bertrand Piccard Copy Share Image
When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
It's pretty obvious that Western lifestyles which rely on gigantic amounts of electricity use up far more resources than a subsistence-based life.… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
“Don’t live your life not to know what to do with your time. If you don’t have any results to show for… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the history of the recruitment of labor is an uninterrupted story of coercion either through the brute force of poverty or… — Michael Perelman Copy Share Image
The way the [welfare] programs are organized, poor people are only paid to do things that are counter-productive - such as breaking… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“It was a hard life, a life of poverty, of incessant struggle, of toil ill paid, of disappointment, but Cervantes carried within… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
“Discover what you could do with your life and empower yourself in that area. Add value to yourself in that your area… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
They said that I had sold out and (am an) Uncle Tom. And I said well, they deserve to have that view.… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
I have been broke a lot of times, but I have never been poor. Poor is just a state of mind, and… — Sara Bokhari Copy Share Image
Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
As policy makers, Congress has the power to promote public policies that economically empower single parents and drastically reduce childhood poverty. — Marc Veasey Copy Share Image
“You must arrest every passing time and convert it into growing your knowledge and prowess in that chosen field of influence.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
It is no mere coincidence that there is both an historic and a present relationship between community (people assisting each other) and… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Let each one of us pray day and night for the downtrodden millions who are held fast by poverty, priestcraft, and tyranny.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
For whatever reason I was born into privilege; I've never known hunger, poverty, or despair. I have been blessed, blessed, blessed--relationally, emotionally,… — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
“The only way to get the best out of the diminishing life is to invest it into the fulfillment of your purpose.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
If we are looking for one single action which will enable the poor to overcome their poverty, I would focus on credit — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
The poverty found in rural areas has some characteristics that are very different from the poverty found in inner cities. — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don't know is how to photograph affluence - whose other face… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
For a hundred years we have been one of the largest oil-producing countries in the world but with a 60 percent poverty… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
“Not every poor or unemployed person who has one wears a political party’s t-shirt to reveal their political affiliation; some use it… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
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