When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated.… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
I have never witnessed poverty like I did in Haiti. The kind that is so deep and wide-reaching that it feels impossible… — Toni Collette Copy Share Image
“The only thing I knew for sure is I hadn’t slept in ten years. Not really. I’d been fighting my own monster… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“Marginalised and abused children are often overlooked even today, and risk becoming marginalised and abused adults who may never receive acknowledgment or… — Jane Hersey Copy Share Image
“If you really want to buy greatness with time, you must invest the quality amount of time into your purpose and land… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The basic building block of peace and security for all peoples is economic and social security, anchored in sustainable development. It is… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
We could say that compassion is the ultimate attitude of wealth: an anti-poverty attitude, a war on want. It contains all sorts… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“Throughout history, societies have suffered from two kinds of poverty: social poverty, which withholds from some people the opportunities available to others;… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I know that if I feel any deprivation or fear [about money], the solution is to give. The solution is to go… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
When I travel, I make certain that I spend at least half of my time in the field. You have to get… — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
“Deprivation draws on two convictions: (1) The deprived person does not believe that he or she is worthy or deserving of pleasure… — Patrick J. Carnes Copy Share Image
Our life is composed of events and states of mind. How ewe appraise our life from our deathbed will be predicated not… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
“My honey child, them housing projects Cannot contain her multitudes A sunbeam, hard upon her Just a fly strugglin’ through her braid… — Valentine Xavier Copy Share Image
Few things in this world more trouble people than poverty, or the fear of poverty; and, indeed, it is a sore affliction;… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
If your experiences suggest to you that poor black folk are lazy, then you must be true to those experiences - except,… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
When poor people get involved in a long conflict, such as a strike or a civil rights drive, and the pressure increases… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
The farmer is a poor creature who skins the land and leaves it worthless to his children. The farmer is a good… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I think people have to remember where we were in 2009. We were losing 800,000 jobs a month. We had an unemployment… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
The key phrase used by the synod, which I'll take up again, is 'integrate' in the life of the Church the wounded… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Seventy-five percent of our energy around the earth is being poured into war efforts. Are we servants of death and destruction? This… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
[Albert Camus] positions are sensed. So, naturally, those intellectuals who don't have that experience have difficulty in comprehending it. But I think… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
“It is so sad, that poor people are not fighting for solutions , but are fighting the opposition. Every time you try… — De philosopher DJ Kyos Copy Share Image
We've got to remember that the core of Christ's plan is to rescue us from sin. Our pain, poverty, and broken hearts… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
Of all the art forms, poetry is the most economical. It is the one which is the most secret, which requires the… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
People think that this concept of GDP is scientific economics, partly because it has a precise number and can be quantified. But… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
“A saint addicted to abnegation is a dangerous neighbor; he is very likely to infect you with an incurable poverty, a stiffening… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We would solve a lot of huge problems that are causing massive suffering. Poverty, violence, homophobia, heterosexism, racism, the environment - all… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Wages never seem to go up. The whole economy feels stuck, and millions of Americans, millions of Americans, middle-class security is now… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
…the poor of the world cannot be made rich by redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I've been to the Bahamas before, and it's so crass. You land in Nassau, and the whole island is replete with beauty… — Matt Skiba Copy Share Image
“Our world is structured in such a way for you not to even know and for you not to even be told… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“THEY SAY "MOST RELATIONSHIPS FAIL DUE TO THE POVERTY." I COMPLETELY DISAGREE WITH THAT.I HAVE SEEN COUPLES WHO COME FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES… — Beta Metani' Marashi Copy Share Image
A considerable proportion of the developed world's prosperity rests on paying the lowest possible prices for the poor countries' primary products and… — Philip Agee Copy Share Image
“She has never been in the presence, before, of two people who are in love with each other. She feels like a… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I was haunted always by my other life-my drab room in the Bronx, my square foot of the subway, my fixation upon… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Physical deprivation and hunger are one thing; the poverty of the mind and psyche is quite another. Crashing Costco to find bulk… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
“I don’t want to wake up. I can’t feel the cold of life. I can’t feel fear in my dreams. When awake… — Craig Stone Copy Share Image
“Suppose that my "poverty" be a secret hunger for spiritual riches: suppose that by pretending to empty myself, pretending to be silent,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I think there are so many children being brought up in some form of violence, be it violence of poverty or sexism… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I'm truly thankful that Life's blows knocked me off the Ivory Tower that so comfortably afforded me the luxury of looking down… — Anonymous Copy Share Image