You can be horrified by the state of the prisons, the misery in certain neighborhoods of its cities, or their level of… — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
“[...] Just because a person has a title doesn't make him an aristocrat. Some people are great aristocrats who have no other… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
We have already discovered the fact that fear is the chief reason for poverty and failure and misery that takes on a… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Passive commerce . . . should thus . . . [compel us] to content ourselves with the first price of our commodities,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“We used to talk and smile seven days ago when I was wearing a suit. Now I'm dressed in a beard and… — Craig Stone Copy Share Image
People would rather live in an area of poverty than in an area where there are no jobs, because if they live… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
Rationality and the instinct of collaboration have already given us large regions and long periods of peace and prosperity. Ultimately, they will… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
I attempted to see famines as broad "economic" problems (concentrating on how people can buy food, or otherwise get entitled to it),… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
“Through silent alleys where dark shadows fleeted past them like forest beasts on the prowl; through bustling market-places where bloaters predominated, into… — Hume Nisbet Copy Share Image
Simplicity in its essence demands neither a vow of poverty nor a life of rural homesteading. As an ethic of self-conscious material… — David Shi Copy Share Image
Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Most of the writers I know work every day, in obscurity and close to poverty, trying to say one thing well and… — Timothy Egan Copy Share Image
“If poverty defines greatness, then become the poorest person on earth, in terms of weakness and bigotry. And if wealth defines glory,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
To love God and neighbor is not something abstract, but profoundly concrete: it means seeing in every person and face of the… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Yes, we have to seek redemption! Redemption from the divisive politics based on caste and religion, redemption from the corruption which is… — Madhu Vajpayee Copy Share Image
Innovative, bottom-up methods will solve problems that now seem intractable—from energy to poverty to disease. Science and technology, powered by the fuel… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
We were on welfare, and my mom thought you needed the government to survive. 'Don't try to make it on your own,… — Lauren Boebert Copy Share Image
While civilization is more than a high material living standard it is nevertheless based on material abundance. It does not thrive on… — Krafft Arnold Ehricke Copy Share Image
“You can perhaps, in a number of circumstances, tell yourself that you can't have more than you have until you do better… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I think it depends on what agenda that female president brings. It's not good if that female president brings an agenda which… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
“There was another reason why the dollar's hegemony grew: the intentional impoverishment of America's working class. A cynic will tell you quite… — Yanis Varoufakis Copy Share Image
When I pick up a person from the street, hungry, I give him a plate of rice, a piece of bread. But… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
If poverty is a disease that infects the entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Making systems work is the great task of my generation of physicians and scientists. But I would go further and say that… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
My loneliness...still comes over me sometimes...It's a liminal, lost sensation of having wandered wide, endless boulevards, among rows of orange trees, winter… — Marco Roth 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
It's obsequious little nicety-nice girls like me who allow assholes to run the world: Miss Harlot O'Harlots, billionaire phony tree huggers, hypocrite… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again and again… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings… — Horace Copy Share Image
They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled… — Denis Kearney Copy Share Image
“The Triumph of Goodness" If only the reality was like cartoons like teenager books and stories or like the countless movies and… — Louis Yako Copy Share Image
I spent almost all my life in poverty, raised by a single mother who had to raise three children on minimum wage,… — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I understood it was a poor area when I was young because you're driving through it and you see these low-income homes… — Joe Burrow Copy Share Image
What will drive people if they don't have money or reward? The reward is the end of war, the end of poverty,… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image