“the big house and the nice suits and the other things that our money culture says you should buy ... betrays a… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“..but when one human creature dies a whole world of hope and memory and feeling dies with him. To be robbed of… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“Fundamentally, poverty is a denial of choices and opportunities, a violation of human dignity. It means lack of basic capacity to participate… — Dean Karlan Copy Share Image
We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Every man is our brother, and every man’s burden is our own. Where poverty exists, all are poorer. Where hate flourishes, all… — Whitney M. Young Copy Share Image
“Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the obsessive phenomenon… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Is it possible that the environmental severity of the 1930s induced-particularly in the most aware, alert, and compassionate of [British] men-a morality… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
“It is my desire that you consider the advice I am rendering here; that you should no longer sell your life but… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
When you resolve to become pious, the devil in your nature cries out at you, "Tread not those paths, O confused one;… — Rumi Copy Share Image
If I were a supervillain, I would end capitalism, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia... but I guess that's a little too obvious and… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
“By the aid of philosophy you will live not unpleasantly, for you will learn to extract pleasure from all places and things:… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
I cannot understand antiabortion arguments that center on the sanctity of life. As a species, we’ve fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we don’t… — Caitlin Moran 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
If you search for poverty, you'll find it, often in the family. Why? Because the family makes this great investment, from which… — Rocco Buttiglione Copy Share Image
“To answer your question as honestly as I can, I've wanted since I was very little to not have to worry about… — Ryan North Copy Share Image
All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, some of our poor choices are irreversible, but many are not. Often, we can change course and get back on the… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
Poor people never, or hardly ever, ask for an explanation of all they have to put up with. They hate one another,… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
“If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The reality is that capital punishment in America is a lottery. It is a punishment that is shaped by the constraints of… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
What does fighting crime mean, exactly? Does it mean upholding the law when a woman shoplifts to feed her children, or does… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“Give that your one life your best input so that it could yield the best output in the form of products that… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
It has to have a payroll tax that's dedicated to Social Security. The Social Security tax has been very successful over the… — James Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus… — Harri Holkeri Copy Share Image
We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of soul, deprivation of God's… — Thomas R. Kelly Copy Share Image
I fight for the environment because we only have one planet, but I see how the environment affects poverty and how the… — Sophia Bush Copy Share Image
How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is rather your limitation that decides to what extent of greatness and to what height you are going to arise in… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“People are training for success when they should be training for failure. Failure is far more common than success; poverty is more… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Where you find obesity, you'll find poverty. It's a reflection of the South's struggle to raise its standard of living. — William R. Ferris Copy Share Image
I've come across a lot of people in my life who talk about poverty and talk about the poor, but you rarely… — Kumi Naidoo Copy Share Image
“The forces of justice had finally come to Annawadi. That the beneficiaries were horses was a source of bemusement to Sunil and… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
Being in the neighborhood and the poverty stricken environment that I grew up in, I took a detour. I gravitated towards some… — Kevin Gates Copy Share Image
As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of… — James Allen Copy Share Image
“No, there is nothing at all funny in poverty—to the poor. It is hell upon earth to a sensitive man; and many… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Be present to those who, living in the midst of a society burdened by poverty and corruption, are broken in spirit, tempted… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I know we have a lot of poverty and we have a lot of problems over here in the U.S., but for… — Malcolm Brogdon Copy Share Image
I have certain objectives. They're the same objectives my father had to give people a higher standard of living, to do away… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Hunger and necessity are poor teachers of morality. A society that cannot provide the basics of life does not get its laws… — A.J. Quinnell Copy Share Image