I have no patience for those who say that poverty is a blessing. Poverty is the greatest curse on earth. — Roger McDonald Copy Share Image
It's obsequious little nicety-nice girls like me who allow assholes to run the world: Miss Harlot O'Harlots, billionaire phony tree huggers, hypocrite… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“The respectable, like the despised, are always at the mercy of circumstances; the influences of environment and the weight of tradition are… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs -… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
The poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a… — Gustavo Gutiérrez Copy Share Image
The poor are always ragged and dirty, in very picturesque clothes, and on their poor shoes lies the earth of the Lacustrine… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
Many developing countries continue to be burdened by high percentages of their population living in poverty. Yet, instead of addressing this root… — Óscar Arias Copy Share Image
Educated and productive young people are needed to help # LIFT their countries out of poverty and create a wealthier, more secure world. — Anne M. Mulcahy Copy Share Image
“Your life is like a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Confronted with the unhappy facts of exclusion, we sometimes reassure ourselves by telling stories: the poor boys who made it, theblacks who… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
Communism will never be defeated by atomic bombs. Our greatest defense against Communism is to take offensive action on behalf of justice… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“They went on living in poverty, though they were no longer in need, but they were set in their ways, and they… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It is the women of Europe who pay the price while war rages, and it will be the women who will pay… — Kate Richards O'Hare Copy Share Image
I am unpersuaded that relative poverty and hard work are greater adversities than relative affluence and free time. — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known. — Michael Harrington Copy Share Image
No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Nobody is so poor he has nothing to give, and nobody is so rich he has nothing to receive. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
With one hand he put A penny in the urn of poverty, And with the other took a shilling out. — Robert Pollok Copy Share Image
Where there is Love and Wisdom, there is neither Fear nor Ignorance. Where there is Patience and Humility, there is neither Anger… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
