Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always:… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Many of my contemporaries in the developed world see subsistence farming as soulful and organic, but it is a poverty trap and… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
“Your time keeps flying away into vanity while you dine with your distractions. Your life keeps diminishing while you waste your time… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
It's important to remember that, while poverty certainly makes single life harder, it also makes married life harder - so much harder… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
There are no causes of poverty. To ask what causes poverty is like asking what causes coldit is the absence of energy.… — Madsen Pirie Copy Share Image
I think Americans yearn for other alternatives to peace, than the path our government has currently taken, and perhaps why there is… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
The mystery of poverty is that by sharing in it, making ourselves poor in giving to others, we increase our knowledge of… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“The best way to detect the destructive element in someone is to watch closely their behavioural pattern when given authority over poverty.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
“People are wrong when they think that an unemployed man only worries about losing his wages; on the contrary, an illiterate man,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man… — Sydney Madwed Copy Share Image
We must not only control the weapons that can kill us, we must bridge the great disparities of wealth and opportunity among… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
At the very least, you must make the Internet free in areas that are poverty-stricken. Without the Internet and access to information,… — Byron Allen Copy Share Image
The existence of poverty in the US should not be accepted as a necessary evil or insoluble problem, but should be considered… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod-always bored, often… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
We have reduced poverty in the world by 50% since the year 1970 - the number of people who go to bed… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
To block the construction of centralized power projects, as not being 'appropriate' or 'sustainable' is to condemn billions of people to continued… — Paul Driessen Copy Share Image
I have not personally suffered from the deprivations, the bitterness and sorrow which bring so many men and women to a realisation… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
There's no magic bullet to end poverty in the world. But if you could, the closest thing to it would be basic… — Craig Kielburger Copy Share Image
Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed. — Iqbal Quadir Copy Share Image
We live on this very small and fragile planet: a world in which there is poverty and injustice is never going to… — Hilary Benn Copy Share Image
The internal conditions in Iran are worsening in all aspects. Poverty and unemployment are becoming more severe, despite the fact that Iran… — Moshe Katsav Copy Share Image
“Poverty has deceived many of us into believing that some people who are in that state love the food, clothes, places, and… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“What good does it do a black youth to know that an employer must pay him $2 an hour if the fact… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
Some got it bad, some got it worse. Life can sometimes look like a curse. So I cry my heart out, let… — Outlandish Copy Share Image
The erosion of equal opportunity is among the greatest threats to our exceptionalism as a nation. But it also provides us with… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
If you're one car accident away from poverty, you're on a high wire without a safety net. And that's a challenging proposition. — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
In business, poor performance leads to bankruptcy or, at a minimum, a restructuring of the company. In American education, failure entitles the… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
“Each new morn New widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows Strike heaven on the face, that it resounds As if it… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Awareness, not deprivation, informs what you eat. Presence, not shame, changes how you see yourself and what you rely on. — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is pain. I don't want you to go through that. So what I'm trying to do is save… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
As a child, I have seen what poverty is, and I try, to the best of my limits, to ensure that no… — Jackie Shroff Copy Share Image
It is more satisfying to sacrifice oneself for the poor victim than to enable the other to overcome their victim status and… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“You are to use this one life to make a difference in your world. You are to invest your time and not… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
For those who are able to work, work has to be seen as the best route out of poverty. For work is… — Iain Duncan Smith Copy Share Image
Poverty is terror. Having your Social Security threatened is terror. Having your livelihood as an elderly person slowly disappearing with no replenishment… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
“More than a fifth of our children live in poverty—the second worst of all the advanced economies, putting us behind countries like… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
The surest way for a poor nation to stay poor is to harass, hobble, and straitjacket private enterprise or to discourage or… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
