The Christian church has set up a religion of pomp and revenue in pretended imitation of a person (Jesus) who lived a… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Welfare mostly subsidizes people in poverty, helping few escape from it. In their hearts, most people who are poor would like to… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
“Poverty is two-faced—a matter of income and expenses, input and output—and in a world of exploitation, it will not be effectively ameliorated… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“She grew into a quiet, beautiful young woman. The beauty was a nuisance, like smog and poverty.” — John Varley Copy Share Image
A peculiarity of the American historical sensibility allows us to be proud of great-grandfathers (or even grandfathers) who lived in crushing poverty,… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
Everything I do is going to be gangsta rap, street based, street oriented... I'm from Gary, Indiana, and everybody's damn near at… — Freddie Gibbs Copy Share Image
In the free market, a man born into wealth or who has otherwise acquired great riches can lose his fortune depending on… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
“Instead of your life just disappearing or being wasted or spent, you are racing to make sure that it is being converted,… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“The proof that most people don’t know how to measure their life by converting time into products is reflected in what they… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I strongly believe that we can create a poverty-free world, if we want to.... In that kind of world, [the] only place… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
The poverty of the West is far more difficult to solve than the poverty of India. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I think a lot about the poems I wasn't able to write...I masturbrated...Solitude is essentially a matter of pride; you bury yourself… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The minimum wage can play a vital role in lifting hard-working families above the poverty line. — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
We fail to see the gospel as the solution to our greatest problem-our guilt, condemnation, and alienation from God. Beyond that, we… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
“From 1960 to 1970, as the New Deal expanded into the Great Society, the number of Americans in poverty declined from 40… — Ian Haney López 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
If farmers become weak the country loses self-reliance but if they are strong, freedom also becomes strong. If we do not maintain… — Rajiv Gandhi Copy Share Image