...men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption: it is the "culture of waste." If you break a… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“It’s material deprivation that starts all this off.” “They’ve got dishwashers, Miranda,” Billa said. “They’re not examples of material deprivation.” — Philip Hensher Copy Share Image
“For you not to waste or spend your life, you must first begin to see time and life correctly. You must first… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Stay away from lazy parasites, who perch on you just to satisfy their needs, they do not come to alleviate your burdens,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
I grew up in a mobile home, but it wasn't like white trash - it was a beautiful mobile home park, I… — Taryn Manning Copy Share Image
I classify Sao Paolo this way: The Governor's Palace is the living room. The mayor's office is the dining room and the… — Carolina Maria de Jesus Copy Share Image
As a journalist, I have spent years reporting on often difficult and depressing conflicts, on poverty, and the inhuman way we sometimes… — Gavin Esler Copy Share Image
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils.… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
The vital consideration of incentives is almost systematically overlooked in the proposals of agitators for more and bigger government welfare schemes. We… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The authoritarian child-rearing style so often found in working-class families stems in part from the fact that parents see aroundthem so many… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
“It is commonly thought that high-poverty neighborhoods are socially fragmented and suffer a weak sense of community, but that is mistaken (see,… — Karl Alexander Copy Share Image
The thing about superheroes is that they don't have problems, right? A feminist hooker superhero wouldn't have to worry about assault, or… — Daphne Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“Learning about Poverty’. ‘Two young American Jesuits showed up at the Jesuit headquarters in Rome. Father Arrupe asked what assignment had brought… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous conscientiousness of honor. It is not the produce of riches only, but… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
When a certain swathe of India's population considers the country's ancient past, it doesn't see a country fragmented into kingdoms, savaged by… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
...culture is useless unless it is constantly challenged by counter culture. People create culture; culture creates people. It is a two-way street.… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
“There are so many things and people craving your attention such that you could so easily forget that you have a purpose… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It is poverty's speech that seeks us out the most. It is older than the oldest speech of Rome. This is the… — Wallace Stevens (1879_1955 Copy Share Image
Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
I didn’t create poverty. This church didn’t create poverty. Poverty is not an issue, human suffering is not an issue at all,… — Peter Akinola Copy Share Image
In the poorest countries...it is women who are the key to breaking out of poverty...and preparing another generation for...leading their countries into… — Queen Noor of Jordan 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
Riches seem to come to the poor in spirit, the poor in interest and joy. To put it straight - the very… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Ignorance and poverty are the best condiments for the great feast of the world, but the inexperienced and poor are never invited… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The debate that I'm interested in having is with seriously smart people about how we design institutions in the 21st century that… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
If you want poor people to work you restore their incentive by giving them less, such as by cutting social services. If… — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of… — Hans Rosling Copy Share Image
As we progress as a species, we will unlock new means for enhancing our lives at every turn - and our conceptions… — Joe Lonsdale Copy Share Image
“Why are record numbers of Americans on food stamps? Because record numbers of Americans are in poverty. Why are people falling through… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“As I was to learn, patience and latitude and even humility are, paradoxically, the handmaidens of wealth, because virtue is costly only… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty… — Artur Davis Copy Share Image
If there is no education, there will be poverty. I believe in it strongly and feel that through education we can address… — Kumar Sanu Copy Share Image
The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
Many communities are already devastated by poverty. Increasingly, that poverty is born of the greed of a global trading system. — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
Trans activism in the US has most frequently been grassroots, centered on poverty and criminalization, and often oppositional to the exclusionary "mainstreaming"… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
How many kinds of moral and material poverty we face today as a result of denying God and putting so many idols… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I know what it means to go to the stream to fetch water... what it means when people are poor and don't… — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Copy Share Image
