Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity. — Abdolkarim Soroush Copy Share Image
“The essence of economic inequality is borne out in a simple fact: there are 400 billionaires in the United States and 45… — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Copy Share Image
Indeed, ask every man separately whether he thinks it laudable and worthy of a man of this age to hold a position… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Jesus lived in occupied territory, in poverty and misery, and his stories and preaching are all about food, land, liberation from bondage… — Megan McKenna Copy Share Image
Poverty hath slain a thousand, but riches have slain ten thousand. They are very uncertain, they promise that which they cannot perform,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Promoting education is an effort that is close to my heart. Illiteracy contributes to poverty; encouraging children to pick up a book… — Sasha Grey Copy Share Image
“There are millions of people who believe themselves “doomed” to poverty and failure, because of some strange force over which they believe… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Children, together with women, constitute 90 percent of all refugee populations on the planet as well as the vast majority of those… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
“To be an effective time user, you must make sure you are spending your time on only what is important.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
We are raising a generation that has a woefully small stock of ideas and interests and emotions. It must be amused at… — Robert McCracken Copy Share Image
“Don't drive a car in the dream, else you won't drive it on earth. Don't wish to become, else you won't become.… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Do not let the bread of the hungry mildew in your larder! Do not let moths eat the poor man's cloak. Do… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is not poverty so much as pretence that harasses a ruined man--the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse--the… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Occasionally I hear a band that blows me away. For instance, there's a musician in Oakland named Weasel Walter who has a… — Glenn Branca Copy Share Image
Once I knew the City very well, spent my attic days there, while others were being a lost generation in Paris, I… — John Steinbeck 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
President Lyndon Johnson's administration was known for his War on Poverty. President Obama's will become notable for his War on Prosperity. We're… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
[French intellectuals] could never address themselves to the working classes. They don't know what it means, and that gives them a bad… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image