In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod-always bored, often… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Lack of money rivets us firmly to the ground, one's wings are clipped. — Paula Modersohn-Becker Copy Share Image
The elimination of profit, whatever methods may be resorted to for its execution, must transform society into a senseless jumble. It would… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“A live dog is better than a dead lion, but death is preferable to poverty.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“In poverty, friends are few; in prosperity, acquaintances are numerous; in affluence, associates are countless.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
Let us remind ourselves that our work is far from complete. Where there is poverty and sickness, including AIDS, where human beings… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“Even if we act to erase material poverty, there is another greater task; it is to confront the poverty of satisfaction –… — Nic Marks Copy Share Image
Never before has man had such a great capacity to control his own environment, to end hunger, poverty and disease, to banish… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
A lot of people abroad know Lula's campaigns against poverty and hunger, but he had a tremendous legacy in education too. He… — Fernando Haddad Copy Share Image
Being born into poverty does not mean you are condemned to spend the rest of your life in poverty. — Kevin Harrington Copy Share Image
Spending time in Calcutta [India] really did a number on me. The way life and death are almost the same thing, the… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The basic building block of peace and security for all peoples is economic and social security, anchored in sustainable development. It is… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
The deepest poverty is the inability of joy, the tediousness of a life considered absurd and contradictory. This poverty is widespread today,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Oh, man, why is this the life? Why is it? Why is one rich and the other poor? Why is one black… — Tony D'Souza Copy Share Image
Political systems must love poverty-they produce so much of it. Poor people make easier targets for a demagogue. No Mao or even… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Born in poverty, he will take supreme power. He will bankrupt the country. Raising an army in the Milanese marches, he will… — Nostradamus Copy Share Image
I did not experience language deprivation. I did have access to language and communication, ever since I was a little kid. — Lauren Ridloff Copy Share Image
What makes the Southern Poverty Law Center particularly odious is its habit of taking legitimate conservatives and jumbling them with genuine hate… — Don Feder Copy Share Image
There is another form of poverty! It is the spiritual poverty of our time, which afflicts the so-called richer countries particularly seriously. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
There was no pomp and ceremony in connection with the birth of Jesus - rather the opposite: it took place in simplicity… — Keith O'Brien Copy Share Image
My father was brought to this country as an infant. He lost his mother as a teenager. He grew up in poverty.Although… — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
I am not here to judge whether people are locked in poverty because of themselves or because of the society in which… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image