Nyasaland was the perfect country for a volunteer. It was friendly and destitute; it was small and out-of-the-way. It had all of… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
“Every year some 150 million people face severe financial hardship and 100 million are pushed below the poverty line because they fall… — The Lancet Copy Share Image
Sometimes in June, when I see unearned dividends of dew hung on every lupine, I have doubts about the real poverty of… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“Since your life evaporates quickly, it is wisdom to learn how to number your days. Not just to number your days but… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“The next speaker, Dr. Joseph Bonds, a little rat-faced Negro with protruding teeth stained by countless plugs of chewing tobacco and wearing… — George S. Schuyler Copy Share Image
When I see the poor in India, it reminds me of the work that I have to do for them. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“I went to Guatemala to help build a school but left wondering what "help" would really look like... I hadn't prepared myself… — Dee Williams Copy Share Image
The communications revolution has given millions of people both a wider and more detailed understanding of the world. Because of technology, ordinary… — David Bornstein Copy Share Image
For most Black people there is still poverty and desperation. The Ghettos still exist, and the proportion of Blacks in prison is… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Sadder than destitution, sadder than a beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more contradicts the laws of man… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
If I am practicing spiritual poverty, which says that I own nothing, then the problems aren't mine and neither are the energy… — Bo Lozoff Copy Share Image
A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised in the countryside, planting corn and selling sweets made by my grandmother. — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
“The poor stole what they could from the rich, and the rich stole what they could from the working poor - one… — Mary Gabriel Copy Share Image
India needs fresh thinking and quick decision-making to get out of the stifling bind of its galloping population and deadly poverty. — Sucheta Dalal Copy Share Image
“...education is not the way out of the poverty trap. A high education level is no guarantee of high productivity. The truth… — William W. Lewis Copy Share Image
Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
Not afraid of poverty and drabness and who is untouched by it, untouched by the drunkenness of her friends; (she) who judges,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Your poverty today is because of who you are. Want wealth? Let go of your anchors and inhibitions and change yourself. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
You have extreme poverty and high crime and you have to admit that the governance of the Kabul regime has been poor… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“We have written too many books about love and so few about hunger and poverty; that is why we need to wake… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“When it was cooler, Trazada made a simple meal of sausage, cheese, and bread. She had schooled herself to wait dinner until… — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Copy Share Image
When I started, I had nothing. Because my family was really, really, really poor. — Giorgio Armani Copy Share Image
the blessings of matrimony, like those of poverty, belong rather to philosophy than reality. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
“At the end of the school day, we walked the long, cold way home feeling happy and hungry. There we found a… — Jenny Lee Ellison Copy Share Image
“The more time you invest into your land of promise, the more productive the land becomes for you.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Principle #23 - Poverty is a disease of the mind. There is a very contagious disease in our world today and people… — Vincent K. Harris Copy Share Image
When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means. — Carlo Collodi Copy Share Image
“So long as I confine my activities to social service and the blind, they compliment me extravagantly, calling me ‘arch priestess of… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Our people are dying, poverty and unemployment are on the rise, but the rest of the world says that Musharraf is needed… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
Those of us who were lucky enough to be born in the right countries have a moral obligation to reduce poverty and… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity. — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
“So, there it was in a nutshell. Poverty led him to religion, religion to education, education to lust, lust to communism. And… — Colin Cotterill Copy Share Image
What shall I give my children? who are poor, / Who are adjudged the leastwise of the land... — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
We have so much poverty in our country. Not every parent can afford to buy their kids all the frills and perks,… — Raveena Tandon Copy Share Image
Being poor is not like being a victim. Being poor means that you don't have one resource. — Kathy Calvin Copy Share Image
We don't actually have rich and poor together instead we have a family. What does it mean? If you have resources, you… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
My story, is how a kid that's born into really destitute poverty on a little dirt road in Florida winds up in… — Don Felder Copy Share Image
![“Our people are dying, poverty and unemployment are on the rise, but the rest of the world says that Musharraf is needed because [only] he can stop nuclear proliferation, [only] he [can launch] an operation in the tribal areas. So he manipulates and dangles some kind of carrot in front of the world…” quote by Benazir Bhutto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0b8/benazir-bhutto-7903_areas_our-people-are-dying-poverty-and-unemplo_1630382.jpg)
