“Simplicity does not mean want or poverty. It does not mean the absence of any decor, or absolute nudity. It only means… — Giles Colborne Copy Share Image
[Terrorism] is formed of certain fundamental problems, [including] ignorance, poverty, and fear of others. Some people take advantage of the young and… — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image
“Measured in terms of the World Bank poverty standard, the number of poor people in China fell from 652 million to 135… — Wang Shaoguang Copy Share Image
Without financial literacy, divorce rates soar, families rupture, and women stay with abusive men for financial security. A lack of jobs contributes… — John Hope Bryant 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
It is then, we say, in the successive stages of his experience, that the believer sees more distinctly, and adores more profoundly,… — Octavius Winslow Copy Share Image
“poor. They argue that greater economic equality is a matter of simple justice that governments should enforce. We certainly agree with the… — Barry Asmus Copy Share Image
One-third of the world, it has been said, may be free- -but one-third is the victim of cruel repression--and the other one-… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“In our day, this global offensive plays a well-defines role. Its aim is to justify te very unequal income distribution between countries… — Eduardo Hughes Galeano Copy Share Image
People do make considered choices about whether they want to fight, and how, and they do so from disparate circumstances. But I… — Joshua Clover Copy Share Image
We have lost the power even of imagining what the ancient idealization of poverty could have meant: the liberation from material attachments,… — William James Copy Share Image
The oil is a gift bestowed by God on the Arab nation, to use after centuries of poverty, backwardness and servitude -… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
“The problem with dreams is that they are always futuristic and gives a deceptive impression that there is still enough time to… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
We don't actually have rich and poor together instead we have a family. What does it mean? If you have resources, you… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“The border between the State of Israel and the occupied Gaza Strip had always reminded him of the line between Tijuana and… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
We need to make sure that access to a curative drug doesn't become a yardstick by which poverty is eventually measured. Doing… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I think America the symbol and America the notion are still very different from America the nation. What's touching and almost regenerative… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I am going to do my best to try to create a country in which children are not living in poverty, in… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“The assistant director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, Hyman Bookbinder, in a frank statement on December 29, 1966, declared that the… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“Perhaps to them and their peers their ecological consciousness is a bigger sign of prestige than a fur coat. Perhaps they feel… — Slavenka Drakulić Copy Share Image
The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Between now and 2015, we must make sure that promises made become promises kept. The consequences of doing otherwise are profound: death,… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
The television reports gave me my first inkling of a world beyond my own, a world that wasn't fair or equal, a… — Chrissie Wellington Copy Share Image
At CARE, a leading humanitarian organization, we recognize people live their lives in a holistic manner. Issues such as health care, education… — Helene D. Gayle Copy Share Image
Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake. If material poverty is to… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Think of the wonders uncorked by wine! It opens secrets, gives heart to our hopes, pushes the cowardly into battle, lifts the… — Horace Copy Share Image
Of course witnessing poverty was the first to be ticked off the list. Then I had to graduate to the more obscure… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
of all the deprivations which afflict humankind, none is more dreadful than loneliness. A corrosive, it eats the heart out. People were… — Zelda Popkin Copy Share Image
There is but one love of Jesus, as there is but one person in the poor - Jesus. We take vows of… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
It was not the goal that really concerned us, the journey was the thing. Who ever reaches any goal? From what journey… — Ben Robertson Copy Share Image
To politicians, solved problems represent a dire threat - of unemployment and poverty. That's why no problem ever tackled by the government… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
When the Kerner Commission told white America what black America has always known, that prejudice and hatred built the nation’s slums, maintains… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
“Today, fewer and fewer people, including fewer and fewer Christians, agree with Jesus on this matter. Poverty is increasingly seen as a… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Sure, you can choose the safety and predictability of the cage, forfeiting the adventure God has destined for you. But you won't… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
A poverty learned with the humble, the poor, the sick and all those who are on the existential outskirts of life. A… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Our world is one of terrible contradictions. Plenty of food, but one billion people go hungry. Lavish lifestyles for a few, but… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
Yahweh demanded justice for the poor, compassion and equality for foreigners and refugees, systemic redress for poverty, structural mechanisms to protect the… — Christopher J. H. Wright Copy Share Image
The only really effective means of enabling States to deal with the grave problem of poverty is to provide them with the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The notion that aid can alleviate systemic poverty, and has done so, is a myth. Millions in Africa are poorer today because… — Dambisa Moyo Copy Share Image