“The spirit of poverty always causes a person to do two things: blame their circumstance for their lack, and feel entitled.” — Kynan Bridges Copy Share Image
Because Social Security is specifically designed to boost the retirement income of low earners with a progressive benefit formula, the program has… — Grace Napolitano Copy Share Image
It is not necessarily poverty of spirit that makes a woman surround herself with life—it can be a superabundance of interest... — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Even today, if my title hadn't been given back to me and I was in such poverty where I had to go… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
“That’s got to stop,” says I. “The idea of any blood-thirsty pirate (Mexican President Diaz) sitting on a throne and reaching across… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
Empowering small farmers to increase productivity, improve crop quality and access reliable markets is critical to addressing global hunger and poverty. — Sylvia Mathews Burwell Copy Share Image
There's an awful lot of white British kids who have never really gone hungry, always had a roof to live under but… — Richey Edwards Copy Share Image
Vietnam remains an underdeveloped economy with a high poverty incidence, ... party, people and army will continue to stand united and ...… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are people in whole parts of our cities who are being totally left behind and disregarded. They are unheard. They are… — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavour of life until he has known poverty, love and war.… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
“To get rich, one must have but a single idea, one fixed, hard, immutable thought: the desire to make a heap of… — Petrus Borel Copy Share Image
Through job creation, quality public services and better working conditions, people, communities and countries can lift themselves out of poverty, improve livelihoods,… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
In this fight I want to show people who are in poverty, downtrodden or denied that you can succeed. I want my… — Tavoris Cloud Copy Share Image
“Without some redistribution of wealth and power, downward mobility and debilitating poverty will continue to drive people into desperate channels. And without… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“From books, I winnowed the glue that held together my psyche as it struggled to stay whole. It was from stories and… — J. Don Cook Copy Share Image
Without Social Security benefits, more than 40 percent of Americans 65 years and older would live below the federal poverty line. Even… — Mike Quigley Copy Share Image
Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when… — Haile Gebrselassie Copy Share Image
The burdens of generations of poverty and powerlessness lie heavy in the fields of America. If we fail, there are those who… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
“The typical poverty program creates dependency, robs people of dignity, stifles initiative, and can foster a “What have you done for me… — Barry Asmus Copy Share Image
“If you know what the treasure of time is worth, if you know that time is a resource, then you will actually… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“carrying laborer to teacher and manager. It seems a bittersweet result of the family’s loss that the remaining children had managed to… — Saroo Brierley Copy Share Image
It's clear that agriculture, done right, is the best means the world has today to simultaneously tackle food security, poverty and environmental… — Irene Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
Illegitimacy is the single most important social problem of our time - more important than crime, drugs, poverty, illiteracy, welfare or homelessness… — Charles A. Murray Copy Share Image
“Dynasties rise and fall according to what the Chinese used to call ‘the mandate of heaven’, but life for the peasant changes… — Kenneth Minogue Copy Share Image
The first Western attempt to save Africa from itself was in the late 19th century. It was led by Christian missionaries who… — Andrew Mwenda Copy Share Image
The real proof of spiritual poverty is to patiently endure the loss of worldly goods and without any regret when it pleases… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
I have been very strongly advocating that poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labour. It perpetuates poverty.… — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
“The material used to make MONEY should be changed from paper to RUBBER. So people can STRETCH it to make both ends… — Nelson M. Lubao Copy Share Image
Hunger wakes you for work, Failure makes you to achieve, Poverty pushes you to earn, Problems keep you alert. Makes life sweeter… — Babloo Copy Share Image
Corruption in state-owned enterprises and other public institutions has undermined our government's programs to address poverty and unemployment. — Cyril Ramaphosa Copy Share Image
In my family and in my community, I see people struggling with drug addiction, with poverty and the effects of generational poverty;… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
You know, its interesting to me that so much of the population is living under the poverty line, but when you look… — Kim Wayans Copy Share Image
It deals with so many different aspects of living in South Africa the racial issues of South Africans and Asians with poverty… — Laura Thielen Copy Share Image
“Wrote my way out of the hood...thought my way out of poverty! Don't tell me that knowledge isn't power. Education changes everything.” — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
Who hateth me but for my happiness? Or who is honored now but for his wealth? Rather had I, a Jew, be… — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
“The reason why most of your goals are probably not achieved is because you do not break down your goals into smaller… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“It is the quality of time you are able to convert into the production of value. The quality of time you are… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“In a letter to Francesco Vettori of 18 March 1513, Niccolò gives us a vivid summary of his youth: ‘I was born… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
