In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“The Rooster Coop was doing its work. Servants have to keep other servants from becoming innovators, experimenters or entrepreneurs. The coop is… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
Let's focus on the real causes of violence, poverty and health disparities to heal Baltimore and transform it into a successful and… — Leana S. Wen Copy Share Image
The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“I didn’t know, even vaguely, the difference between physical deprivation and the emotional loss of one’s child, even when you know that… — Stuart Rojstaczer Copy Share Image
“Some of the common occurrences of injustice are the presence of poverty, starvation, gender inequality, neglected widows and orphans and the injustice… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
If one looks at the history of India after independence in 1947, for the first 30 to 40 years I think we… — Cyril Shroff Copy Share Image
My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and… — Jennifer Garner Copy Share Image
... the hey-day of a woman's life is on the shady side of fifty, when the vital forces heretofore expended in other… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
When it comes to solving problems of poverty, impact investing can act as a catalyst, but it is not a silver bullet.… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
“The train bore me away, through the monstrous scenery of slag-heaps, chimneys, piled scrap-iron, foul canals, paths of cindery mud criss-crossed by… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“As for my own answers to any of this? I have none. I'm far more confused than before I first went. I've… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Materialism blinds us to our spiritual poverty. Jesus rebuked the Laodicean Christians because although they were materially wealthy, they were desperately poor… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
“At present I do not feel that I have seen more than the fringe of poverty. Still, I can point to one… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Black child poverty is higher. As I write in the epilogue, "Yes we can. No he didn't. President [Barack] Obama didn't push… — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
Boredom is the keynote of poverty - of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with -… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
Meaningful solutions to the problems of mass poverty that prevails in India I believe can only be found in the framework of… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
“Poverty is so unfair but, if one prays & create and educate oneself to have assets poverty no longer is the ruler… — Mrs.Tabatha D. Cain, Malik Copy Share Image
Ants do no bend their ways to empty barns, so no friend will visit the place of departed wealth. [Lat., Horrea formicae… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Industrial Society is not merely one containing 'industry,' large-scale productive units capable of supplying man's material needs in a way which can… — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
“… what right [do] people in wealthy countries have to blame the poor for their poverty, much less for humanity’s environmental dilemma,… — Mark Hertsgaard Copy Share Image
“Blind luck, to arrive in the world with your properly formed parts in the right place, to be born to parents who… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
The majority of people who come to America come for a better life, just like the Italians, the Jews, the Irish, and… — Marty Walsh Copy Share Image
Chinese Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood,… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
There are so many things that are incompatible with a single life. No one can learn fully in one life the lessons… — J. M. E. McTaggart Copy Share Image
There are a limited number of things we can be personal with. This understanding can bring us to pare down to what… — Gunilla Brodde Norris Copy Share Image
“But the poor and indigent who earn scarcely enough to keep themselves alive and who also have to pay tribute to the… — José Rizal Copy Share Image
The amount of poverty and suffering required for a Rockefeller to emerge, and the amount of depravity entailed in the accumulation of… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
“My great worry is the problem of poverty…Instead of prisons, I would have schools, art and vocational academies, free trade, free love,… — Luisa Capetillo Copy Share Image
“I also remember that my father was one of the people who voted to get the Dauntless out of the factionless sector… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
The haggardness of poverty is everywhere seen contrasted with the sleekness of wealth, the exhorted labour of some compensating for the idleness… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
“One would never defeat one's circumstances by working and saving one's pennies; one would never, by working, acquire that many pennies, and,… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
I would say that the writers I like and trust have at the base of their prose something called the English sentence.… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Pregnant women who are at risk for suffering complications and even death are in the prime of their lives. The most affected… — Robin Lim Copy Share Image
But the economic meltdown should have undone, once and for all, the idea of poverty as a personal shortcoming or dysfunctional state… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“Would it not be better if they spent more money on wholesome things like oranges and wholemeal bread or if they even,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It is time that capital and labor realized that their interests are really comutual, as interdependent as the brain and the body;… — William Cowper Brann Copy Share Image
“Suppose a country starts its independence with the three economic characteristics that globally make a country prone to civil war: low income,… — Paul Collier Copy Share Image