Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency. — Nicolas Sarkozy Copy Share Image
Whatever the short term clashes between protecting the environment and eradicating poverty, medium term and long term it is clear. Unless we… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
“The secret of all the great men and women in history is that they converted their time into tangible products.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
It's as if we live in a house which has a vast treasury in one of its rooms. Only we've forgotten about… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too,… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“Many people who order their lives rightly in all other ways are kept in poverty by their lack of gratitude.” Wallace Wattles” — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
“It is important that any value you add to yourself should be converted to tangible products that could benefit humanity.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The collective shortfall of the 3.08 billion people (47 percent of world population) who, in 2005, lived below $2.50 per day was… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
“I knew, of course, that I should be well paid for my services, but I would gladly have accepted half the sum… — Catherine Crowe Copy Share Image
“For many great deeds are accomplished in times of squalid struggle. There is a kind of stubborn, unrecognized courage which in the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Conservatives highlight the primacy of family and argue that family breakdown exacerbates poverty, and they're right. Children raised by single parents are… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
“In liberation theology, Marxism is never treated as a subject on its own but always from and in relation to the poor.… — Leonardo Boff and Clodovis Boff Copy Share Image
When I was little, my parents belonged to a cult, a big Buddhist sect called Soka Gakkai. I didn't have any particular… — Takashi Murakami Copy Share Image
When men and women fail to form stable marriages, the result is a vast expansion of government attempts to cope with the… — Maggie Gallagher Copy Share Image
Houdini connected to people on an emotional level so that when he would escape that straight jacket it wasn't about the straight… — Criss Angel Copy Share Image
I have seen that traditional approaches to charity and aid don't solve problems of poverty. In fact, too often they create dependence. — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
We decided in the mid-1960s that all poor people are the same: they are all poor. We know they're poor because we… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
Poverty is a scorpion; it stings the poor and it also stings the men with high conscience who feel sad about the… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Single parent situations drive poverty and often lead to unsupervised kids. Many boys growing up without fathers often feel angry and abandoned.… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
“According to a World Report in this issue, more than 60 million people in India were forced below the poverty line by… — The Lancet Copy Share Image
If there are amazing graces on this earth, I believe that they are these good children sent to us by God and… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
“Your life is not meant to be used in exchange for mundane things like houses and cars but to purchase greatness.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“The rights of man are poor things beside the eyes of hungry children. Their hurts are keener than the soreness of injustice.” — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
The poor have been sent to the front lines of a federal budget deficit reduction war that few other groups were drafted… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“I have observed that in process of becoming ultra rich & famous individual, most of them at later years in life dies… — Aditya Ajmera Copy Share Image
“Most people have not become better than they were five years ago because people hardly invest time into improving their knowledge, skills,… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Spending time in Calcutta [India] really did a number on me. The way life and death are almost the same thing, the… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The spinning wheel and the spinning wheel alone will solve, if anything will solve, the problem of the deepening poverty of India. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In this great country of ours, it is inexcusable that so many children grow up in poverty and despair. The well-being of… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
We need to see the FLSA and the minimum wage as part of a larger struggle to cut poverty and to address… — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“Poor JZ is the perpetual victim. In the case of Nkandla, he was the victim of a 'supply-chain' fiasco; something he knew… — Jacques Pauw Copy Share Image
Instead of looking at difficulties as deprivations, we can learn to recognize them as opportunities for deepening and widening our love. — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
Policies are also to blame: the only thing that the governments and people can come up with to give to the poor… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
There are millions and millions of people who are thrown in the midst of poverty and starvation. Animals don't die of starvation,… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Capitalism, and capitalism alone, has rescued the human race from degrading poverty, rampant sickness and early death. — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
If not one more cent in new aid money flowed [to Africa], we could with more urgency and efficiency and creativity be… — Kumi Naidoo Copy Share Image