“If you fear poverty, poverty will chase you down. If you fear wealth, wealth will evade you. Fear and money are horrible… — Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr Copy Share Image
I want us to raise the national minimum wage, because people who live in poverty should not - who work full-time should… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“In order to gain mastery over whatever you have been called to do, you must look for ways of improving how you… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I call for a march from exploitation to education, from poverty to shared prosperity, a march from slavery to liberty, and a… — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
“Give that your one life your best input so that it could yield the best output in the form of products that… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The reality is that capital punishment in America is a lottery. It is a punishment that is shaped by the constraints of… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
“If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Love floods our nervous system with positive energy, making us far more attractive to prospective employers, clients, and creative partners... Love leads… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Here's Williams' roadmap out of poverty: Complete high school; get a job, any kind of a job; get married before having children;… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Corruption is a major cause of poverty as well as a barrier to overcoming it, .. The two scourges feed off each… — Peter Eigen Copy Share Image
Celebrity poverty, that's the hidden scandal in Blair's Britain. You can't help but worry for them. A girl I knew developed X-ray… — Peter York Copy Share Image
Nearly one billion women and men, a third of the world's workforce, are either unemployed or unable to earn enough to keep… — Juan Somavia Copy Share Image
“They have shown that problems endemic to poverty—residential instability, severe deprivation, concentrated neighborhood disadvantage, health disparities, even joblessness—stem from the lack of… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
I think a lot about the poems I wasn't able to write...I masturbrated...Solitude is essentially a matter of pride; you bury yourself… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
We need to ask the moral questions: Do I have a right to be rich? And do I have a right to… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
What does fighting crime mean, exactly? Does it mean upholding the law when a woman shoplifts to feed her children, or does… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, some of our poor choices are irreversible, but many are not. Often, we can change course and get back on the… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
“It is my desire that you consider the advice I am rendering here; that you should no longer sell your life but… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Poor people never, or hardly ever, ask for an explanation of all they have to put up with. They hate one another,… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
Every man is our brother, and every man’s burden is our own. Where poverty exists, all are poorer. Where hate flourishes, all… — Whitney M. Young Copy Share Image
Is it possible that the environmental severity of the 1930s induced-particularly in the most aware, alert, and compassionate of [British] men-a morality… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
“Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the obsessive phenomenon… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“..but when one human creature dies a whole world of hope and memory and feeling dies with him. To be robbed of… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Fundamentally, poverty is a denial of choices and opportunities, a violation of human dignity. It means lack of basic capacity to participate… — Dean Karlan Copy Share Image
“the big house and the nice suits and the other things that our money culture says you should buy ... betrays a… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
What government has been doing, we've got major programmes now, of billions of pounds, which are directed by central government into these… — John Prescott Copy Share Image
When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, "Now is that political, or social?" He said, "I feed you." Because the good news… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
FORMA PAUPERIS. [Latin] In the character of a poor person - a method by which a litigant without money for lawyers is… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
People who are denied access to power are also denied the opportunity to make or influence decisions to live a better life… — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
There is a thought that poverty is a public policy failure; poverty is man-made by action and non-action: poverty can be eliminated. — Benjamin Mkapa Copy Share Image
“Poverty among naturalized immigrants—that is, those who have become U.S. citizens—is lower than poverty among native-born Americans.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the… — James Payn Copy Share Image
We now see numerous examples of brands working together to address issues such as environmental degradations, climate control, pollution, poverty and disease. — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
I've learned so much through life. Starting off in Asia, the cultures, the people you meet, the poverty you see. It's been… — Vijay Singh Copy Share Image
I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of… — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image
I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
Obama's plan for higher taxes and more spending is a blueprint for perpetual poverty. The last thing America needs is more of… — Steve Stockman Copy Share Image