Trade is the all-but-forgotten weapon in the battle against poverty, but it can provide more help to the poor than aid can. — Richard N. Haass Copy Share Image
“To invest your life, you must invest your time and make sure it doesn’t just melt away like Salvador Dali’s melting clock.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“To correct a natural indifference, I was placed halfway between poverty and the sun. Poverty kept me from thinking all was well… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
To give either to any public matter of interest or to any concern of my own, but I am in utter poverty… — Socrates Copy Share Image
On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty,… — Hesiod Copy Share Image
In the developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of lack of love. There is… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
After losing everything, I went on a quest to find out how money really works, how I could get control of it,… — Dave Ramsey Copy Share Image
Realism gives me the impression of a mistake. Violence alone escapes the feeling of poverty of those realistic experiences. Only death and… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
The planet's biggest problems have to do with sustainability, environmental decline, global poverty, disease, conflict and so forth. Really, they're all interconnected… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
“Poor women suffer terrible sexual violence that goes unreported. Because of their social class, these women do not have access to therapy… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
The great have private feelings of their own, to which the interests of humanity and justice must curtsy. Their interests are so… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Many people might wonder why conserving wildlife should be considered so important when there are wider issues of global and national interest,… — David Lidington Copy Share Image
When people grow up in atmospheres of violence or atmospheres of poverty, they don't normally use hi-falutin' language to describe those things.… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside by a generous hand. But- and this is the point- who… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
One of the over-riding things for many who grow up in poverty is the simple desire to escape. I think it was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“On Epicurus; He says: "Contended poverty is an honourable estate." Indeed, if it is contented, it is not poverty at all. It… — Seneca Copy Share Image
Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Carbon negative power plants can provide energy while they overcome poverty and change economic values in the right direction. — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective -- the solution to poverty is to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Cuba's poverty is caused by the crackpot Marxist doctrines imposed by its sociopathic ruler and promoted by half the liberal arts professors… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
Like an odorless gas, [inequality] pervades every corner of the United States and saps the strength of the country's democracy. But it… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Famine, poverty, abuse, you can't keep that all blocked out. If you let those things teach you, influence you, change you, those… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“If you don’t just want to live an ordinary life, then you will have to be intentional about converting all your time… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
It is perfectly consistent - and also true - to say that the world poverty problem today is smaller (relative to world… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
I may not remember the name of a book's author, but let it be clear, what I will not forget is the… — Enrique Pena Nieto Copy Share Image
If admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out… — Jon Corzine Copy Share Image
I know of no system other than Hinduism under which a class has been set apart from generation to generation for the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
America is still the land of opportunity for most, but it is not a land of opportunity for all. If we are… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Money is only a vehicle that provides you with options, and I say there's only one thing that money can't buy -… — Jerry Doyle Copy Share Image
I have always been really troubled by the amount of poverty in America. Americans are matched in their rich democracy with the… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“The secret of all greatness is in knowing what to do with time. The secret of all the great men and women… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go… — Horace Copy Share Image
If a girl understand your bull-shit, sticks through your childish acts, care for you even when you've done jack-shit for her! It's… — London Mond Copy Share Image