There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sri Yukteswar showed no special consideration to those who happened to be powerful or accomplished; neither did he slight others for their… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
It has been convincingly demonstrated that countries where there are high rates of poverty, or high rates of economic inequality, are the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity. — Abdolkarim Soroush Copy Share Image
“The essence of economic inequality is borne out in a simple fact: there are 400 billionaires in the United States and 45… — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Copy Share Image
Indeed, ask every man separately whether he thinks it laudable and worthy of a man of this age to hold a position… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Jesus lived in occupied territory, in poverty and misery, and his stories and preaching are all about food, land, liberation from bondage… — Megan McKenna Copy Share Image
Poverty hath slain a thousand, but riches have slain ten thousand. They are very uncertain, they promise that which they cannot perform,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Promoting education is an effort that is close to my heart. Illiteracy contributes to poverty; encouraging children to pick up a book… — Sasha Grey Copy Share Image
“There are millions of people who believe themselves “doomed” to poverty and failure, because of some strange force over which they believe… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Children, together with women, constitute 90 percent of all refugee populations on the planet as well as the vast majority of those… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
“To be an effective time user, you must make sure you are spending your time on only what is important.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
We are raising a generation that has a woefully small stock of ideas and interests and emotions. It must be amused at… — Robert McCracken Copy Share Image
“Don't drive a car in the dream, else you won't drive it on earth. Don't wish to become, else you won't become.… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Do not let the bread of the hungry mildew in your larder! Do not let moths eat the poor man's cloak. Do… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is not poverty so much as pretence that harasses a ruined man--the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse--the… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Occasionally I hear a band that blows me away. For instance, there's a musician in Oakland named Weasel Walter who has a… — Glenn Branca Copy Share Image
Once I knew the City very well, spent my attic days there, while others were being a lost generation in Paris, I… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The Cairo conferenceis about a complicated web of education and employment, consumption and poverty, development and health care. It is also about… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
President Lyndon Johnson's administration was known for his War on Poverty. President Obama's will become notable for his War on Prosperity. We're… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
[French intellectuals] could never address themselves to the working classes. They don't know what it means, and that gives them a bad… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
Remember... Poor man is not the one who own nothing..But the one without a dream... — Ahmed Mahdi Saleh Copy Share Image
In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Great wants proceed from great wealth; but they are undutiful children, for they sink wealth down to poverty. — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I lived in a really poor neighbourhood and in our street, my family is one of the poorest. Sometimes the landlord would… — Victor Osimhen Copy Share Image
How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
We love to think this fundamentalism and terrorism is all about poverty, and, of course, it has a connection. You can see… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
Without effective states working with active and involved citizens, there is little chance for the growth that is needed to abolish global… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image