The peoples of many countries are being taxed to the point of poverty and starvation... to enable governments to engage in a… — Franklin D. Roosevelt 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
“At the street corner, a one-storey house built of freestone, but repulsively decrepit and filthy, seemed to command the entrance, like a… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
Poverty should be one of the top concerns for any elected leader. It has a negative effect on almost everything we as… — Ron Crumpton Copy Share Image
I mean, you just go down the line, and with any of these issues, it's about rich people staying rich. And using… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“You'd think (losing his job and degree for having made false claims as a researcher) would be a lesson to him," said… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“To the RKO motion picture camera at her 100th birthday party: “I pray for the day when working men and women are… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
Poor people of all colors are getting poorer and our communities are getting more toxic. There is a misconception that to grow… — Majora Carter Copy Share Image
The first thing we should acknowledge is that poverty is hugely expensive. It varies from country to country, but most of the… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
The popularity of the famous device of the use of lands into England is said to be largely due to the mendicant… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
“Honey, it isn’t democracy that runs this country. Capitalism rules. It does no good to reason with the capitalists or their politicians.… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
The slaving Poor are incapable of any Principles: Gentlemen may be converted to true Principles, by Time and Experience. The middling Rank… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasures amid smoke and vapour,… — Johann Joachim Becher Copy Share Image
Isn't it sad, that in a time when we face so many devastating problems - poverty, HIV/AIDS, war and conflict - that… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
There was an undercurrent of poverty throughout my childhood. We lived with my grandmother in her two-bedroom flat, and I slept with… — Bernard Hill Copy Share Image
Even today we don't pay serious attention to the issue of poverty, because the powerful remain relatively untouched by it. Most people… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
What I would say to young women is: Pay attention to the real. Pay attention to what you're really thirsting for. What… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
“Wealth File 1. Rich people believe "I create my life." Poor people believe "Life happens to me." 2. Rich people play the… — T. Harv Eker Copy Share Image
It was a very economically depressed time [the 80s] and because of that, there was a lot of space. Everything was relatively… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
The best way to perpetuate poverty is spending on arms, and poverty itself is a form of violence. The wealthy industrialized countries… — Oscar Arias Copy Share Image
The fact is that people who strap bombs to their bodies to blow up families at a Bar Mitzvah in Israel, plant… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
There are still hundreds of millions, billions of people living in abject poverty around the world. They need electricity. They need electricity… — Rex Tillerson Copy Share Image
My family spent many years sleeping side by side in the same room. It's important for me to not separate myself from… — Abdellah Taia Copy Share Image
The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
There is not such a mighty difference as some men imagine between the poor and the rich; in pomp, show, and opinion,… — Thomas Sherlock Copy Share Image
As for the spirit of poverty, I do not remember any moment when it was not in me, although only to that… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I have somewhere heard or read the frank confession of a Benedictine abbot: "My vow of poverty has given me a hundred… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“And yet for aught I see, they are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing. It… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Let my silence grow with noise as pregnant mothers grow with life. Let my silence permeate these walls as sunlight permeates a… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
I am not so repelled by Communism: an element of Communism in politics is necessary and inevitable. In any involved society there… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of… — Ahmed Ben Bella Copy Share Image
“For if in careless summer days In groves of Ashtaroth we whored, Repentant now, when winds blow cold, We kneel before our… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Socialism's results have ranged between the merely shabby and the truly catastrophic - poverty, strife, oppression and, on the killing fields of… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Ti's not religion nor politics nor decree, Ti's not history nor ethics nor the visions you might see, Ti's the simplicity to… — Jasmina Siderovski Copy Share Image
The legacy of the embargo will be Cuba's poverty and desperation. When the island comes out of it, they'll be even more… — Achy Obejas Copy Share Image
There are still hungry people in Ethiopia, but they are hungry because they have no money, no longer because there is no… — Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher Copy Share Image
“It was a grand opportunity for the low whites, who had no negroes of their own to scourge. They exulted in such… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
![“In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich; then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth…” quote by Will Durant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6b1/will-durant-948_ability_in-progressive-societies-the-concentrati_2532010.jpg)
![“Isn't it sad, that in a time when we face so many devastating problems - poverty, HIV/AIDS, war and conflict - that in our Communion we should be investing so much time and energy on disagreement about sexual orientation?" [The Communion, which] "used to be known for embodying the attribute of…” quote by Desmond Tutu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/942/desmond-tutu-442_accommodate_isn-t-it-sad-that-in-a-time-when-we-face_805419.jpg)
![“It was a very economically depressed time [the 80s] and because of that, there was a lot of space. Everything was relatively dilapidated, and one could live on a pretty low income. One could live well below the poverty line and not suffer immensely.” quote by Kiki Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6f7/kiki-smith-10643_80s_it-was-a-very-economically-depressed-tim_26978.jpg)
