“WHAT IS GREATER THAN GOD, MORE EVIL THAN THE DEVIL? THE POOR HAVE IT. THE RICH NEED IT. AND IF YOU EAT… — Ernie Lindsey Copy Share Image
“The difference between one person who is living in poverty and another person living in wealth is their understanding of what to… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
There was no pomp and ceremony in connection with the birth of Jesus - rather the opposite: it took place in simplicity… — Keith O'Brien Copy Share Image
Poverty is a result of lack of opportunity. Lack of opportunity is about being without power, without being in a position to… — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“when you control for poverty, the students in the U.S. outperform nearly every nation across the globe on these same tests.” — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich. He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
We certainly would resolve the problems of the charities that are working in areas where they can do the most good. So… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“Many of my classmates have happier memories of Blessed Sacrament, and in time I would find my own satisfaction in the classroom.… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
It is important to remember when reading Adam Smith or even when just thinking about Smith that the era that he lived… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
...let us recognize that extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere. Let us recall that poverty is a denial… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Humility, or poverty of spirit, is not a matter of thinking low thoughts about ourselves. It is not a matter of groveling… — John W. Miller Copy Share Image
Never before has man had such a great capacity to control his own environment, to end hunger, poverty and disease, to banish… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Human beings need land even more so than they need money; the monopoly of land - not the monopoly of money -… — Martin Adams Copy Share Image
Presidents and prime ministers, whether they live in the rich or the poor world, are insulated and isolated from the devastating impact… — Jonathan Dimbleby Copy Share Image
“What is Poverty? A hateful good; a mother of health; a putting away of cares; a discoverer of wisdom; business without injury;… — Secundus the Silent Copy Share Image
I classify Sao Paolo this way: The Governor's Palace is the living room. The mayor's office is the dining room and the… — Carolina Maria de Jesus Copy Share Image
As a journalist, I have spent years reporting on often difficult and depressing conflicts, on poverty, and the inhuman way we sometimes… — Gavin Esler Copy Share Image
Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
...culture is useless unless it is constantly challenged by counter culture. People create culture; culture creates people. It is a two-way street.… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
“There are so many things and people craving your attention such that you could so easily forget that you have a purpose… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
I grew up in a mobile home, but it wasn't like white trash - it was a beautiful mobile home park, I… — Taryn Manning Copy Share Image
Stay away from lazy parasites, who perch on you just to satisfy their needs, they do not come to alleviate your burdens,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It’s material deprivation that starts all this off.” “They’ve got dishwashers, Miranda,” Billa said. “They’re not examples of material deprivation.” — Philip Hensher Copy Share Image
“For you not to waste or spend your life, you must first begin to see time and life correctly. You must first… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
...men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption: it is the "culture of waste." If you break a… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge… — Horace Copy Share Image
Relief, or redistribution of income, voluntary or coerced, is never the true solution of poverty, but at best a makeshift, which may… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
“He was convinced that poverty was the only way of life for a certain category of people; they would die without it.” — Ninotchka Rosca Copy Share Image
We hold the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty is far superior to that of supplying the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Out of abysses of Illiteracy, Through labyrinths of Lies, Across wastelands of Disease . . . We advance Out of dead-ends of… — Melvin B. Tolson Copy Share Image
Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work. — Nicholas Johnson Copy Share Image
The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue,… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
One would think that by the second decade of the twenty-first century, the intellectual poverty of technocracy and the primacy of politics… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Our communities are reeling from poverty, from unemployment, from discrimination of all sorts and different interactions that they're having with the law… — Opal Tometi 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
