“For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life. There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Under liberalism, went a famous quip, everyone is free to starve. Even worse, by encouraging people to view themselves as isolated individuals,… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The stinting poverty in which they lived was unbearable; it was destroying them. It did not mean that there was not enough… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“Physical comfort--materialism, if you like--is the enemy of any serious spirituality, I think. When we're warm and well fed, our souls can… — Lucinda Riley Copy Share Image
The great question for our time is, how to make sure that the continuing scientific revolution brings benefits to everybody rather than… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“It is true that almost everyone in the foothills farmed and hunted, so there were no breadlines, no men holding signs that… — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
High corruption and the influence of big business and the wealthy elite keeps the poorest Nigerians trapped in poverty and cut off… — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
A few years ago the idea that extreme poverty was harmful was on the fringes of the economic and political debate. But… — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
“The majority of people spoil their lives by an unhealthy and exaggerated altruism – are forced, indeed, so to spoil them. They… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I was a TV producer at a noncommercial station, and we were producing some good documentaries - on Head Start, on poverty.… — Joan Ganz Cooney Copy Share Image
The explosive growth in places like Shanghai has helped lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and into a thriving… — Gary Locke Copy Share Image
Vladimir Putin inherited a ransacked and bewildered country, with a poor and demoralized people. And he started to do what was possible… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
We have never seen the isolation of the rich to the degree that we see it now. They're global. They travel all… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Can we really believe that we are living a good life, an ethically decent life if we don't do anything serious to… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The present Arab uprising didn't stem from Israel. The old guard is trying to keep down the young chickens. The old guard… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Not afraid of poverty and drabness and who is untouched by it, untouched by the drunkenness of her friends; (she) who judges,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Productive and sustainable job creation, along with increased and better-targeted social expenditure, are the only routes to permanently beat the poverty trap… — Piyush Goyal Copy Share Image
The villager, born humbly and bred hard, Content his wealth, and poverty his guard, In action simply just, in conscience clear, By… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
Government-to-government foreign aid promotes statism, centralized planning, socialism, dependence, pauperization, inefficiency, and waste. It prolongs the poverty it is designed to cure.… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Public education is the key civil rights issue of the 21st century. Our nation's knowledge-based economy demands that we provide young people… — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
Nature herself in times of great poverty or bad climatic conditions, as well as poor harvest, intervenes to restrict the increase of… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
“Have you ever played Monopoly? It's a board game designed to teach kids capitalism. And what happens in the end? The winner… — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
“Jesus said, "If those who lead you say to you, 'See, the kingdom is in the sky,' then the birds of the… — Gospel of Thomas Copy Share Image
“What can defeat a strong man who believes in himself and cannot be ridiculed down, talked down, or written down? Poverty cannot… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“Join us. Play the game. It will bring you an untold number of rewards and you will finally have some direction and… — Martin Hopkins Copy Share Image
I am a sensitive person, so it is actually saddening to learn that these poverty-stricken families are most of the time mistreated… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I believe that what I've worked for - women and children, civil rights against poverty, trying to level the playing field for… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
In my experience, poor people are the world's greatest entrepreneurs. Every day, they must innovate in order to survive. They remain poor… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Take the case of just actions; just punishments and chastisements do indeed spring from a good principle, but they are good only… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“It is a central paradox of contemporary parenting, in fact: we have an acute, almost biological impulse to provide for our children,… — Paul Tough Copy Share Image
It is the women of Europe who pay the price while war rages, and it will be the women who will pay… — Kate Richards O'Hare Copy Share Image
The greatest percentage of poverty is found in female-headed households. Over 70 percent of female-headed households are poor. A large percentage of… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Men are naturally lazy, and require some great stimulus to goad their flagging ambitions and enable them to overcome the inertia which… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Haiti is the kind of place that grabs your heart, and never lets go ... When you arrive in Port-au-Prince, the first… — Andrea Mitchell Copy Share Image
Welfare mostly subsidizes people in poverty, helping few escape from it. In their hearts, most people who are poor would like to… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
Everyone knew that democracy - direct rule by all the people - required such spartan, soul-denying virtue on the part of all… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
Religion must be used in furthering great works of justice and reform. It must be used to establish right relations between different… — John Haynes Holmes Copy Share Image
In a society of little economic development, universal inactivity accompanies universal poverty. You survive not by struggling against nature, or by increasing… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
“One of those realizations was this: that life itself is a form of suffering. The rich suffer because of their riches. The… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
For believers, both privilege and privation are a trial, and both demand responses: one demands service, and the other demands patience. The… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
