“Solitude is the measure through which you could concentrate on using your time.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
When women are able to live in a safe and secure environment, they can participate effectively in the economy and society. This… — Helen Clark Copy Share Image
Taking responsible steps to reduce poverty is not merely a moral imperative but an economic one. — John Yarmuth Copy Share Image
We need to recognise that what really matters isn't buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
If we are serious about breaking cycles of poverty, we have to change this (economy). — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
“In all my travels I saw very little real poverty, I mean the grinding terrifying poorness of the Thirties. That at least… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Why else do you think we are permanently at war in various regions all over the world? And why is it the… — James Morcan Copy Share Image
No matter where you go, poor people have the capacity to endure. Some people even compliment us on it, as if endurance… — Victor LaValle Copy Share Image
When President Mbeki said, if you get AIDS, you can have a shower and it goes away. It's like, oh, come on.… — Elton John Copy Share Image
“We are all the product of our past and have to live with our memories and personality they cannot be erased.” — Jane Hersey Copy Share Image
I've been to the Bahamas before, and it's so crass. You land in Nassau, and the whole island is replete with beauty… — Matt Skiba Copy Share Image
Conservative and liberal politicians alike now spend millions waging wars around the globe, funding the largest military state in the world, providing… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
We have begun a throw away culture. This tendency is seen on the level of individuals and whole societies; and it is… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“I do not envy those whose introduction to nature was lush meadows, lakes, and swamps where life abounds. The desert hills of… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Ironically, it was the father's blessing that actually "financed" the prodigal son's trip away from the Father's face! and it was the… — Tommy Tenney Copy Share Image
Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery. — Democritus Copy Share Image
When the producers of 'Why Poverty?' came to me to do a film about poverty in the United States, I asked if… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
Worrying about bills, food, or other problems leaves less capacity to think ahead or to exert self-discipline. So, poverty imposes a mental… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
We have to be bold in our national ambitions. First, we must win the fight against poverty within the next decade. Second,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortu ne is not a mortgage on achievement-fai lure is not a mortgage… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
On the one hand we have got to ask, are there some areas of universal benefits that are no longer affordable? But… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
It's more work to create poverty, disease and disharmony than it is to create health, harmony and abundance, because perfect health, harmony… — Robert Anthony Copy Share Image
We must fight inequality and poverty if we want to re-establish peace and security. Seven million Mexicans live in extreme poverty, which… — Enrique Pena Nieto Copy Share Image
“Poverty will keep for you your true and tried friends; you will be rid of the men who were not seeking you… — Seneca Copy Share Image
Whatever may be said in praise of poverty, the fact remains that it is not possible to live a really complete or… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when you grow up in one of these poverty-stricken neighborhoods where the educational system isn't the best, you don't realize that… — Keke Palmer Copy Share Image
Read whatever chapter of scripture you will, and be ever so delighted with it - yet it will leave you as poor,… — William Law Copy Share Image
The legacy of slavery comes from the sustained political, legal and economic effort to link permanently an entire group of people to… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
Think about this: terrorism, epidemics, poverty, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction-all challenges that know no borders-the reality is that climate… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
The fight against poverty and hunger must be fought constantly and on many fronts, especially in its causes. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Contrary to what the West seems to think, it is not poverty that brings people like us so close to God. It's… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
