I'm interested in illuminating the enormous disparity between vast poverty and the tiny upper class... This vast inequity is unfair by definition,… — Nick McDonell Copy Share Image
“Pride thinks its own happiness shines the brighter, by comparing it with the misfortunes of other persons; that by displaying its own… — Sir Thomas More Copy Share Image
There are tens, perhaps hundreds of millions of people living in poverty and danger who might readily seek to enter a Western… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
“You must not allow any of your time to pass by without adding value to yourself and reproducing your life in others.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“People who understand how to convert their time into useful products do not complain of boredom. They have too many important tasks… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
We have so much poverty in our country. Not every parent can afford to buy their kids all the frills and perks,… — Raveena Tandon Copy Share Image
Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Greatness is not dependent on your background, it is dependent on how much value you were able to add to yourself per… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“The truth was that nature had endowed them with a larger share of brains than was common in their circle, and had… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation—of loneliness, poverty,… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“History testifies to the truth that it is misery that teaches men more than happiness, that it is poverty that strengthens them… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
The United States, which has been called the home of the persecuted and the dispossessed, has been since its founding an asylum… — Eileen Simpson Copy Share Image
We believe that a civilised society can be measured by the way in which it treats its most vulnerable members and that… — Grant Shapps Copy Share Image
I have a fear of poverty in old age. I have this vision of myself living in a skip and eating cat… — Jenny Eclair Copy Share Image
The whole attempt to advance the kind of consumer society that depends for its growth on the ceaseless stimulation of unlimited covetousness… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
And every historic effort to forge a democratic project has been undermined by two fundamental realities: poverty and paranoia. The persistence of… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I know too much from personal observation from how the poor and working classes live to be satisfied with a system which… — Vida Goldstein Copy Share Image
Throwing young men out of work, throwing people into poverty and ending business life don't promote stability in the Palestinian territories,. — Chris Patten Copy Share Image
Poverty does not make people terrorists, but terrorists can exploit the frustration it creates and use it as a breeding-ground for violent… — Anna Lindh Copy Share Image
We need to realize that poverty doesn't only consist of being hungry for bread, but rather it is a tremendous hunger for… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and… — Anna Lindh Copy Share Image
Some people just don't want to put in the effort. I just show up and say some lines and I'm famous. Anyone… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
African-Americans now 45 percent poverty in the inner cities. The education is a disaster. Jobs are essentially nonexistent. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families. — Hans Kung Copy Share Image
“You must understand that your creativity comes alive when you spend time alone focusing on your projects without distractions.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Do not romanticize the poor...We are all people, human beings subject to the same temptations and faults as all others. Our poverty… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
May I not forget that poverty and riches are of the spirit. Though the world knows me not, may my thoughts and… — Max Ehrmann Copy Share Image
The absence of state capacity - that is, of the services and protections that people in rich countries take for granted -… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
The poor too often turn away unheard, From hearts that shut against them with a sound That will be heard in heaven. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
How well a posse policy will fare in a world with 3 billion people below the poverty line and nuclear warheads scattered… — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
A short time ago the demagogues blamed capitalism for the poverty of the masses. Today they rather blame capitalism for the "affluence"… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“You can have anything you need in life, the only price you have to pay is for you to exchange your life… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
My empathy for poor people comes from having been one of them for so long, from knowing that their humanity is more… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The potential savings in the national budgets from the elimination of police, criminal courts, standing armies, pollution control agencies, drug enforcement, and… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
To leave the number of births unrestricted, as is done in most states, inevitably causes poverty among the citizens, and poverty produces… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Whenever you make up your mind to go into solitude, you must decide first of all what you want to go and… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness. — Herodotus Copy Share Image
Gotta start teaching the children that they can be just what they want to be, there's much more to life than poverty. — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem of two… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
