“We each have the choice in any setting to step back and let go of the mindset of scarcity. Once we let… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
I believe poor people are good people, except the ones that are mean . . . — Fannie Flagg Copy Share Image
As we mourn President Mandela’s passing we must ask ourselves the fundamental question - what shall we do to respond to the… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
“For in the latter days of that passionate life that lay now so far behind him, the conception of a free and… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
But the economic meltdown should have undone, once and for all, the idea of poverty as a personal shortcoming or dysfunctional state… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride. — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
“If trickle-down economics worked, we would not have four food banks in Kensington and Chelsea.” — Emma Dent Coad Copy Share Image
“The time of solitude is actually an opportunity to make time work for you.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
In 'Saami,' I take a poor dhobi's son for admission to a private school. The principal refuses for various reasons and finally… — Vivek Copy Share Image
“The worst stories usually make you think: 'but nobody had to die'. These are called true stories.” — Moonshine Noire Copy Share Image
All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In Los Angeles, wealth and poverty are separated by the freeways. In New York, they're next to each other. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
I trained myself. Long ago, `Boy' [Arthur] Capel introduced me to 'Bludgeon the Poor!' (Assommons les pauvres!) which, rejecting resignation, informed my… — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“It may be that some disadvantaged kids who get into trouble suffer not solely from poverty or neglect, say those who hold… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer. Lack of desire is poverty. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Welfare now erodes work and family and thus keeps poor people poor. Accompanying welfare is an ideology - sustaining a whole system… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
If I could repeat my childhood, I would repeat it exactly as it was, with the poverty, the cold, little food, with… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
I've never been anywhere in my life like it and I only really noticed it when I returned to Los Angeles and… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
The trouble with poverty, as an issue, is that it has basically exhausted the patience of the general public. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
“Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove… — Imelda Marcos Copy Share Image
SO the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, "Loneliness is the ultimate poverty" — Abigail Van Buren Copy Share Image
I think that we are trying to move towards the First World slowly but surely. But we must do a good job… — Juan Manuel Santos Copy Share Image
Historically, it has required a combination of favorable employment trends and active government intervention to lower the percentage of people in poverty… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
Socialism's results have ranged between the merely shabby and the truly catastrophic - poverty, strife, oppression and, on the killing fields of… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The more millionaires, the more paupers. — Rutherford B. Hayes 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
If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
[Praying] demands that you take to the road again and again, leaving your house and looking forward to a new land for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When a mother feels cold, she asks the child to wear a sweater. Our concept of poverty is that way. When we… — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image