“I consumed books about social policy and the working poor. One book in particular, a study by eminent sociologist William Julius Wilson… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“Did you take a vow of poverty or something?" "This is a housedress, Malloy," she said, indignant again. "I was cleaning when… — Victoria Thompson Copy Share Image
“We have all read about poverty and starvation around the world, but I never imagined I would be witnessing it firsthand. On… — Bryan A. Wood Copy Share Image
One question we must consider today is how we can take action to unify our nation, heal racial division, end poverty and… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Hunger is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
In this country we're unprecedentedly safe, comfortable, and well fed, with more and better venues for stimulation. And yet if you were… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
When we bear witness, when we become the situation - homelessness, poverty, illness, violence, death - the right action arises by itself.… — Bernie Glassman 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
We decided in the mid-1960s that all poor people are the same: they are all poor. We know they're poor because we… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
Nature herself in times of great poverty or bad climatic conditions, as well as poor harvest, intervenes to restrict the increase of… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Tis mighty easy o'er a glass of wine On vain refinements vainly to refine, To laugh at poverty in plenty's reign, To… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
I think there are so many children being brought up in some form of violence, be it violence of poverty or sexism… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If you think creating a world without any poverty is impossible, let's do it. Because it is the right thing to do. — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
“cross-national studies show that the U.S. poverty rate, which stands persistently above 12 percent, is not only the highest poverty rate of… — Cal Jillson Copy Share Image
It is said that the Negro is ignorant. But why is he ignorant? It comes with ill grace from a man who… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
One of the unspoken themes that I'm grappling with in Day of Honey is the relationship between violence and cosmopolitanism. It's one… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
“Hunger takes away what you are. Everything we were was just nothing then.” — Sebastian Barry 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
The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt… — Iqbal Quadir Copy Share Image
“The trouble is Indians aren't used to being prosperous. We are more comfortable dealing with poverty- after all, poverty has been the… — Shobhaa De Copy Share Image
Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of… — Plato 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
“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 you have to humble yourself before the process of starting and running a business. Only the incredibly fortunate achieve their… — Patrick Grant Copy Share Image
Both Hindu, as well as Islamic fundamentalism, feed on the poverty of the masses. — Michel Chossudovsky Copy Share Image
The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Sometimes the facts of the crime are so distracting - there's been some tragic murder or horrific incident, and people aren't required… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
Nobody wants to remain poor. Those who are poor want to move away from poverty. That is why, all our programmes must… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to… — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
The art of our time, sacred art included, will necessarily be characterized by a certain poverty, grimness and roughness which correspond to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
