“The phenomenon of relative deprivation applied to education is called—appropriately enough—the “Big Fish–Little Pond Effect.” The more elite an educational institution is,… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I think we start suffering as soon as we come out of the womb. I think that people tend to stereotype. When… — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us knows what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thought-proof against all adversity.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The unemployed, poverty-stricken white man must be made to realize that he is in the very same boat with the Negro. Together,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is evil poured upon the earth from the overflowings of corruption-- Sickness, and poverty, and pain, and guilt, and madness, and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“You may not have all you could wish for, but you still have more than you deserve. Your circumstances are not what… — Charles Haddon Spurgeon Copy Share Image
There is no worse material poverty than one that does not allow for earning one’s bread and deprives one of the dignity… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The foes now are universal - poverty, famine, religious radicalization, desertification, drugs, proliferation of nuclear weapons, ecological devastation. They threaten all nations,… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
“Twelve years ago we characterized the scene as poor service, no service, or self-service. Unfortunately, little has changed. As a result, customers… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Humanity will be better served when those in power, privileged and keepers of it's flame realize that poverty is not a crime… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who… — Marvin Olasky Copy Share Image
Liberalism had come to mean spending more on everything-speech police, failed poverty programs that reward dependence, a bigger nanny state telling us… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
“Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Women represent 70 percent of the 1.3 billion people in our world who live in absolute poverty. Consequently, as Joan Holmes, president… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
“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
As we come to know the seriousness of the situation, the war, the racism, the poverty in our world, we come to… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance, this new version is the past and no different… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The image titled “The Homeless, Psalm 85:10,” featured on the cover of ELEMENTAL, can evoke multiple levels of response. They may include… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Business is one of the most powerful institutions on Earth for creating wealth and opportunity and helping to lift people out of… — Peter Blair Henry Copy Share Image
“During those long stretches on the links, as I carried their bags, I watched how the people who had reached professional heights… — Keith Ferrazzi Copy Share Image
When Heaven is about to confer a great office on a man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews… — Mencius Copy Share Image
“Illness and death are not the only consequences of the lack of access to water; it also hinders education and economic development.… — Tom Standage Copy Share Image
We need to recognise that what really matters isn't buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
These often unsung heroes understand...that poverty, disease and famine are just as deadly and destructive as earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis. Individuals ...are… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“If we are going to spend the bulk of our public dollars on the affluent — at least when it comes to… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“Silently, she wondered whether this was the same desperation, the same impotence that grips many men by their shirts, their T-shirts, their… — Panashe Chigumadzi Copy Share Image
“Stale beer sticks to wobbling tables. The cigarette machine flashes in the corner, mocking smokers who never have any change on them.… — Craig Stone Copy Share Image
The time has come for an all-out war against poverty. The rich nations must use their vast resources of wealth to develop… — Martin Luther King, Jr 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
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
“[...] 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
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
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
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
Passive commerce . . . should thus . . . [compel us] to content ourselves with the first price of our commodities,… — Alexander Hamilton 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
We offer a better way for dealing with persistent poverty in this country. A way that shows poor Americans the world beyond… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
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