“It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
But, we have had the debate in our country now for a number of years as to whether or not free trade… — Donald Evans Copy Share Image
To love without need or without expectation of restitution, that is how we ought to love. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The patience of poverty. In rice fields, backs bent forever. Amazing, man outoxens the oxen and still smiles. The mystery of India,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was little, my parents belonged to a cult, a big Buddhist sect called Soka Gakkai. I didn't have any particular… — Takashi Murakami Copy Share Image
A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of non pertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience,… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
As a young black immigrant at an inner-city school, I saw how poverty of ambition left many from disadvantaged backgrounds on the… — Kemi Badenoch Copy Share Image
“The Negroes in Harlem, who have no money, spend what they have on such gimcracks as they are sold. These include “wider”… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
The best way to perpetuate poverty is spending on arms, and poverty itself is a form of violence. The wealthy industrialized countries… — Oscar Arias Copy Share Image
Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. Its purpose should be the… — George C. Marshall Copy Share Image
As an anthropology major, I wanted to understand the cultural significance of poverty - why it exists and why some countries can… — Lauren Bush Copy Share Image
“When you are just living your mundane life; just walking about or you are just sleeping and waking up and just chatting… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“But today our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
An individual poor person is an isolated island by himself and herself. IT can end that isolation overnight. — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
“And, conversely, she went on to herself, sneering at the Grand Duke's palace, poverty is wasted on the poor, who never know… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Only MONEY cant feed HUNGRY stomach, its HEART which feels the pain of POOR. Describes it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Today Ethiopia is one of the poorest countries in the world. The income of an average Ethiopian is about one-fortieth that of… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at… — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
“If poverty is a disease that infects an entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
People in the U.K. don't imagine what it is to live in extreme poverty here in Colombia or anywhere in the so-called… — Juan Manuel Santos Copy Share Image
A few hundred years ago, perhaps 85 or even 90 percent of humanity lived below a standard of living that today only… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
“life itself is a form of suffering. The rich suffer because of their riches. The poor suffer because of their poverty. People… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease,… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and the Tartar… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
When we look at modern man, we have to face the fact...that modern man suffers from a kind of poverty of the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
You, that have toiled during youth, to set your son upon higher ground, and to enable him to begin where you left… — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
Republican politicians regularly churn out earnest policy wonkery and programs in the hope of raising more black children out of poverty. Black… — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
Like an odorless gas, [inequality] pervades every corner of the United States and saps the strength of the country's democracy. But it… — George Packer Copy Share Image
The communism of combined wealth and capital, the outgrown of overweening cupidity and selfishness which assiduously undermines the justice and integrity of… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
EJECTION, n. An approved remedy for the disease of garrulity. It is also much used in cases of extreme poverty. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image