It's shocking to me still, that children - just because of where they're born - are born into a life of extreme… — Lauren Bush Copy Share Image
Wealth and rank are what men desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed. Poverty… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The right of individual property is no doubt the very corner-stone of civilization, as hitherto understood; but I am a little impatient… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“The most recent data available from the U.S. Census’s SIPP show that 90 million people, nearly one-third of all Americans, experienced poverty… — Jonathan Morduch Copy Share Image
“The best=laid plans, one's most fastidious contingency strategies have revealed themselves in the cold light of day to be laughably inadequate, no… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
When people said Africa would change me, I didn't understand what they meant. To see the poverty in the townships, for instance,… — Jennifer Hudson Copy Share Image
“Mohammad never assigned himself a status more than a common man and a messenger of God. People had faith in him when… — M.H. Hyndman Copy Share Image
Two decades ago, however, socialism and communism died rudely, then were buried forever by the empirical demonstration of the superiority of market… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Deep thinkers who look everywhere for the mysterious causes of poverty, ignorance, crime and war need look no further than their own… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If you go to Jamaica, you're going to these all-inclusive resorts where they're playing calypso and a bit of reggae or whatever.… — Shane Smith Copy Share Image
There is nothing in all the world greater than freedom. It is worth paying for; it is worth going to jail for.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We will not overcome world poverty unless we manage climate change successfully. I've spent my life as a development economist, and it's… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
“If I could remove one thing from the world and replace it with something else, I would erase politics and put art… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Most Americans living below the official poverty line own a car or truck - and government entitlement programs seldom provide cars and… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Mankind's survival is dependent on man's ability to solve the problems of racial injustice, poverty, and war; the solution of these problems… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
For Ragamuffins, God's name is Mercy. We see our darkness as a prized possession because it drives us into the heart of… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
It would take little more than $50 billion to raise every poor person above the official poverty line, yet the percentage of… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
Nowadays, by contrast, Christianity specialises in soft-focus mood music; its threats of hell, its demand for poverty and chastity, its doctrine that… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
“Still, connecting others to the world economy -voluntarily, by pressure, and even by force- constituted, in principle, their only road to sustained… — Azar Gat Copy Share Image
I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside by a generous hand. But- and this is the point- who… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Realism gives me the impression of a mistake. Violence alone escapes the feeling of poverty of those realistic experiences. Only death and… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
“Poor women suffer terrible sexual violence that goes unreported. Because of their social class, these women do not have access to therapy… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
The planet's biggest problems have to do with sustainability, environmental decline, global poverty, disease, conflict and so forth. Really, they're all interconnected… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
The great have private feelings of their own, to which the interests of humanity and justice must curtsy. Their interests are so… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
When people grow up in atmospheres of violence or atmospheres of poverty, they don't normally use hi-falutin' language to describe those things.… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
Many people might wonder why conserving wildlife should be considered so important when there are wider issues of global and national interest,… — David Lidington Copy Share Image
One of the unspoken themes that I'm grappling with in Day of Honey is the relationship between violence and cosmopolitanism. It's one… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
The issue I focus on the most is extreme poverty. I think it's kind of out of sight out of mind. I… — John Legend Copy Share Image
“Heri kuishi kama maskini mwenye pesa nyingi kuliko tajiri mwenye mifuko iliyotoboka, kuliko kusema mbele za watu kwamba pesa haijakupa furaha. Wengi… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
African Americans are doing a lot already, but I think we have an opportunity right now to change politics in a way… — David Beckmann Copy Share Image
When you set about your composing, it may be necessary for your ease, and better distillation of wit, to put on your… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“The new black conservatives claim that transfer payments to the black needy engender a mentality of dependence which undercuts the value of… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
You breathed on me and made my life a richer one to live, when I was deep in poverty you taught me… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
If I go home I'll see poverty, I didn't want to go home. No vegetables today. So make black tea and eat… — Bharti Singh Copy Share Image
A recent report by UNEP and Interpol estimated that between 50 to 90 per cent of logging in key tropical countries of… — Achim Steiner Copy Share Image
“You don't want to have any pity on these here tramps – scum, they are. You don't want to judge them by… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I think people in Botswana are pleased that my books paint a positive picture of their lives and portray the country as… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
It is a world completely rotten with wealth, power, senility, indifference, puritanism and mental hygiene, poverty and waste, technological futility and aimless… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
