When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening — Daphne Zuniga Copy Share Image
Development is among the most important long-term multilateral agendas existing today. As we all know, lasting peace cannot be achieved unless large… — Pal Schmitt Copy Share Image
“How agonized we are by how people die. How unconcerned we are by how they live.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Poverty suppresses growth in regions of the brain that empower children to do well in school, handle the greater threats they face… — Dacher Keltner Copy Share Image
The world is host to love and hate, peace and war, poverty and luxury. — Innah Delos Angeles Copy Share Image
“Could a person die from gratification deprivation? It certainly felt like it was a possibility.” — Genna Rulon Copy Share Image
Fortunately, I have money that's from my life's work. But it's money that I share and used greatly to fight poverty in… — Vicente Fox Copy Share Image
“Distinctive facial features of a parent are poor people’s paternity test.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Poverty is a human-engineered product per excellence. It results primarily from inequitable distribution of national revenues coupled with escalating levels of corruption… — Moutasem Algharati Copy Share Image
Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The writer Denise Chávez comments on poor food and what you associate with luxury food items. In fact, she wrote a whole… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“Still, connecting others to the world economy -voluntarily, by pressure, and even by force- constituted, in principle, their only road to sustained… — Azar Gat Copy Share Image
Whoever seeks honor [by marrying a woman] will be tested with lowliness, and whoever seeks wealth [by marrying a woman] will be… — Sufyan ibn `Uyaynah Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, like many of today’s reformers, Riis considered teachers the determining factor in whether a child escaped poverty. In his 1892 book… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Most poverty and suffering - whether in a country, a family or a person - flows from disorganization. A stable social order… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
America doesn't have poor people, they have temporarily embarrassed millionaires: meaning there are people who are poor for now but that's all… — Neal Brennan Copy Share Image
Talent isn't enough. You need motivation-and persistence, too: what Steinbeck called a blend of faith and arrogance. When you're young, plain old… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
A poor man humbles himself before God... but a rich man boast in his heart. God oppose a boastful heart — Mercy Pheona Copy Share Image
“I hadn't realized what a transformation had taken place while I had been in Uganda, the spiritual richness I had experienced in… — Katie J. Davis Copy Share Image
Can we really believe that we are living a good life, an ethically decent life if we don't do anything serious to… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“Would it not be better if they spent more money on wholesome things like oranges and wholemeal bread or if they even,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We have said we will never collapse, never ever. We may have our droughts, our poverty, but as a people we shall… — Robert Mugabe Copy Share Image
The notion about education has changed and that now it’s sort of much more aligned with, “Well, schools can’t combat poverty. We… — Michelle Rhee Copy Share Image
To me, education is the way out of poverty. And it is the only way. — Sherry Lansing Copy Share Image
The purpose and effect of [land titles] have been to maintain, in the hands of robber, or slave holding class, a monopoly… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image