For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Given the proper suggestion, the Subconscious Mind will manifest success from failure, health from disease, prosperity from poverty, friendship and love from… — Uell Stanley Andersen Copy Share Image
“Lajwanti made the cardinal mistake of trying to cross the dividing line that separates the existence of the rich from that of… — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the… — Plato Copy Share Image
I am Catholic, I was raised Catholic, I am a practicing Catholic. But I say we need to agree to disagree. We… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
The Master said, "Wealth and honor are things that all people desire, and yet unless they are acquired in the proper way… — Confucius Copy Share Image
My family moved to the Philippines when I was 14. While living there, I learned that my mom grew up very poor.… — Manny Pacquiao Copy Share Image
I actually believe that some residue of discrimination would lessen, because it's my view that there is a certain percentage of the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
No-one is destined to live a life of poverty, because each of us has the ability to change everything in this life.… — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
If you are weakened by the pains of hunger and poverty, with no money in your pockets, and no one will give… — Sri Guru Granth Sahib Copy Share Image
For a long time, rich countries have promised to reduce poverty but have failed to match their words with adequate action. Of… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Begin to build up confidence and joy in your own richness. That richness is the essence of generosity. It is the essence… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
I was deeply concerned then, and have become more concerned since, that unless we can deal with the questions of development and… — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
“When Americans find out I grew up in the tenements, the question they invariably ask me is “how did you end up… — Susan Lynn Peterson Copy Share Image
Development requires major source of unfreedom: poverty as well as tyranny, poor economic opportunities as well as systematic social deprivation, neglect of… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Yeah, you got the family dog and the white picket fence, and you just think that's all there is. Some of us… — Michael Vick Copy Share Image
“As I grew into womanhood my confusion at the world became more apparent. I was taking comfort in behaviours that were familiar,… — Jane Hersey Copy Share Image
What we need to do is increase the totality of money that is given to the poorest areas and then we can… — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
“Zehrunisa didn’t know Abdul’s age herself. Seventeen was what she’d said before the burning, when people asked her, but he could have… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
“Laziness can be a value on its own for those who want to show supremacy through contempt for work and wish to… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
If I were an immigrant Latino not born in the US, I could not have written Searching for Whitopia: An Improbably Journey… — Richard Benjamin Copy Share Image
We must remember that self-reliance and eradication of poverty demands - indeed, compel - the present generation to bear hardship and make… — Rajiv Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Poverty drove their parents to have them castrated as young children, hoping they would earn a better living at court. Usually the… — Jung Chang Copy Share Image
I'm proud of [Big] K.R.I.T., I'm proud that the person that came after me shares so many similar views [as mine]. From… — David Banner Copy Share Image
Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Both died, ignored by most; they neither sought nor found public favour, for high roads never lead there. Laurent and Gerhardt never… — Charles Adolphe Wurtz Copy Share Image
Love is the reason I just keep filling up my little eyedropper, keep filling it up and emptying my ocean one drop… — Katie Davis Copy Share Image
Being grateful is the bridge between the world of nightmares and the world where we are free to say no. It's the… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
The importance of detachment from things, the importance of poverty, is that we are supposed to be free from things that we… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Jesus said, “If those who lead you say to you, ‘Look, the Kingdom is in the sky,’ then the birds of the… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
“I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
By almost any measure, the world is better than it has ever been. People are living longer, healthier lives. Many nations that… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I don't want to sound Pollyannish about this. I understand that poverty is never just poverty. It's often this collection of maladies,… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...hideous psychic fallout they'd all endured both in active marijuana-dependency and then in marijuana-detox: the social isolation, anxious lassitude, and the hyperself-consciousness… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
...it is proper that the duty of helping the poor and unfortunate should especially stir Catholics, since they are members of the… — Pope John XXII Copy Share Image
As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what more civilized… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“WITH GOD YOU CAN TURN YOUR impeaching importunities into optimal opportunities. Frightful frustration into fortifying fortunes. Humble attitudes into higher altitudes .Distress… — Ikechukwu Joseph Copy Share Image
Poverty is a strange and elusive thing. ... I condemn poverty and I advocate it; poverty is simple and complex at once;… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image