“I grew up in extreme poverty,’ said Hari Das. ‘Like me, my father was a day labourer, who also did theyyam during… — William Dalrymple Copy Share Image
We must be like the fountain or spring that is continually emptying itself of all that it has and is continually being… — Shoghi Effendi Copy Share Image
I began to realize that poverty was really more of a choice than anything else and that I could change that. And… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth; but, if poor, it is not quite so easy to conceal our… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
While all too many people live in dire poverty, others are caught up in materialism and lifestyles which are destructive of family… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
If poverty and underdevelopment are primarily consequences of poor institutions, then by weakening those institutions or stunting their development, large aid flows… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
Social Security is one of the greatest achievements of the American government, protecting our elderly against poverty and assuring young people of… — Mark Foley Copy Share Image
“Poverty is a state of the mind that was created as a result of unhealthy environmental factors. When you are surrounded with… — Uzoma Nnadi Copy Share Image
Short-sighted and impatient efforts to wipe out poverty by severing the connection between effort and reward can only lead to the growth… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The vision of the anointed is one in which ills as poverty, irresponsible sex, and crime derive primarily from 'society,' rather than… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
You no wins, callin the field up and the drama done build up and this poverty's the cards that they dealed us. — D Block Copy Share Image
No matter how you measure it, women and girls bear the brunt of poverty. But it's also clear that women are also… — Helene D. Gayle Copy Share Image
“Two out of ten U.S. children of all backgrounds live in poverty, and one-third of black and close to one-third of Latino… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“In England there is no mercy for the poor. You pay for everything, even a broken neck." 472” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
In the Catholic Worker we must try to have the voluntary poverty of St. Francis, the charity of St. Vincent de Paul,… — Peter Maurin Copy Share Image
“You can really never give birth to anything in this world without solitude. Everything precious comes out of solitude.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I don't think losing things - in my case, the use of my legs - really damages or hurts you. What hurts… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
The hard part that I had to go through in life, period, is living in poverty and not being able to get… — Derrick Rose Copy Share Image
The unemployed, poverty-stricken white man must be made to realize that he is in the very same boat with the Negro. Together,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The differences in income between the poor world and the rich world are so great that people have to be interested. — Esther Duflo Copy Share Image
I was very poor and I was a waitress, and it's hard to be a poor waitress in New York. — Kristin Davis Copy Share Image
“Solitude is a way of overcoming distraction so that you can convert your time into something of worth.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The extent of poverty in the world is much exaggerated. Our sensitiveness makes half our poverty; our fears--anxieties for ills that never… — Christian Nestell Bovee 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
Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when a person sees the roguery of poor people and the thievery of people in high positions, he is tempted to… — Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
We have to realize that science is a double-edged sword. One edge of the sword can cut against poverty, illness, disease and… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“The difference between one person who is living in poverty and another person living in wealth is their understanding of what to… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
A united humanity will be able to confront the many troubling problems of the present time: from the menace of terrorism to… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like. — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We know that there are several predisposing factors to gun violence: poverty, lack of education, lack of good parenting, lack of jobs,… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I attempted to see famines as broad "economic" problems (concentrating on how people can buy food, or otherwise get entitled to it),… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
