We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“In order to gain mastery over whatever you have been called to do, you must look for ways of improving how you… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I want us to raise the national minimum wage, because people who live in poverty should not - who work full-time should… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“If you fear poverty, poverty will chase you down. If you fear wealth, wealth will evade you. Fear and money are horrible… — Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr Copy Share Image
The longer I live the more I mistrust theatricality, the false glamour cast by performance, the more I know its poverty beside… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I call for a march from exploitation to education, from poverty to shared prosperity, a march from slavery to liberty, and a… — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“[...] Just because a person has a title doesn't make him an aristocrat. Some people are great aristocrats who have no other… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
Passive commerce . . . should thus . . . [compel us] to content ourselves with the first price of our commodities,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
We have already discovered the fact that fear is the chief reason for poverty and failure and misery that takes on a… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
No-one is destined to live a life of poverty, because each of us has the ability to change everything in this life.… — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
My family moved to the Philippines when I was 14. While living there, I learned that my mom grew up very poor.… — Manny Pacquiao Copy Share Image
Robert Kennedy identified with people, not data, or institutions, or theories. Poverty was a specific black face for him, not a manila… — Jack Newfield Copy Share Image
“The greatest treasure in life is the possession of time. Tragically, though, it is that same time that is often least treasured… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When I am asked, "What, in your view, is the worst human rights problem in the world today?" I reply: "Absolute poverty."… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
I experienced how foreign aid for large-scale vaccination projects helps to save the life of children and thus give a real input… — Jonas Gahr Store Copy Share Image
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“When poor people hear a loud noise, they whip their heads around. Wealthy people finish their sentences, then just glance back.” — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
There are cultural reasons, economic competitiveness reasons. There are a lot of reasons why people are in poverty. The difference today is… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
These days there is a lot of poverty in the world, and that's a scandal when we have so many riches and… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Needy knife-grinder! whither are ye going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order; Bleak blows the blast-your hat has… — George Canning Copy Share Image
Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a vicious cycle of… — Benjamin Hooks Copy Share Image
... statism systematically violates the rights of individuals and is, therefore, immoral. Because it suppresses the mind and violates men's rights, it… — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
Don't ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He's too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Homeless people living in a poor country - by acceptable means, is common almost unavoidable. Homeless people living in a rich one,… — Alexander Fennis Copy Share Image
I think, for me, the biggest issue is poverty in general, poverty in this time of plenty. It's reflected in homelessness. It's… — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
Putting women first would mean strengthening America's social safety net, because a higher proportion of single-mother families live in poverty here than… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
If we want the whole world to be rich, we need to start loving wealth. In the difference between poverty and plenty,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
As a poor person and someone who now writes extensively about social and economic justice, I've often noticed a lack of a… — Stephanie Land Copy Share Image
“... when a poor man's wronged, he becomes a very difficult customer. To start with, he gets a lot of sympathy: and… — Menander Copy Share Image
“we sometimes fail to recognize the signs of poverty, loneliness, grief, fear, and desolation in our own city, our own village, or… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
I think we will never find ultimate happiness. But I see a world of peace, harmony, laughter, love and non-violence and the… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
To become rich in no time is very easy. The only thing you have to do is to look at those who… — Vikrant Parsai 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