“Why, European visitors tell us, we don’t know what poverty is.” “Neither do we,” answered Zava. “Won’t you tell us?” — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
“So they had all had more troubles than she. Did that really make them superior? If two men were walking along the… — Elizabeth Harrower Copy Share Image
Maybe poverty is a special case of something else. That something else is 'scarcity,' and anyone who has the experience of 'having… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
I think poverty is the biggest challenge for Los Angeles and for many of our cities that have come back from the… — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
You suffer from trauma from the things that you've been through because you come from a poverty-stricken background. There are a lot… — Bugzy Malone Copy Share Image
The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The real wants of nature are the measure of enjoyments, as the foot is the measure of the shoe. We can call… — Pope Clement I Copy Share Image
“One can slide between poor and rich, the difference as slight as between paper and parchment, one voice and a choir, arms… — Jeannine Atkins Copy Share Image
If we continue on the trend we're on, we can reduce extreme poverty by more than 60 percent-lifting more than 700 million… — Rajiv Shah Copy Share Image
The active cavalry of Scythia is always followed, in their most distant and rapid incursions, by an adequate number of spare horses,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The solidarity which binds all men together as members of a common family makes it impossible for wealthy nations to look with… — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
The poverty line understates the true amount of poverty because it measures it as three times the breadbasket that a family needs,… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Any classification according to a singular identity polarizes people in a particular way, but if we take note of the fact that… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
And if you look at the reality in the United States, where you have more than 40 million people below the poverty… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
In this crazy world, there's an enormous distinction between good times and bad, between sorrow and joy. But in the eyes of… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
These guys [liberals] will never tire of spending our money and will never hold themselves accountable for their boondoggles. For them the… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The themes that make one laugh always stem from poverty, hunger, misery, old age, sickness, and death. These are the themes that… — Mario Monicelli Copy Share Image
Nothing is wrong with me, Dan. Whats wrong with you? she said in the same eerily quiet voice, dark eyes fixated on… — Martin Hopkins Copy Share Image
We have had virtually unlimited access to abortion for nearly twenty years. Yet during that same period, more and more women and… — Robert Casey Copy Share Image
“God, however, is first glimpsed within nature’s still greater powerlessness—its transitoriness and contingency and explanatory poverty.” — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Poverty is apt to strike suddenly like influenza, it is well to have a few memories of extravagance in store for bad… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
My grandfather, Harry Ferguson, was a butcher in Hill of Beath; so even though my grandparents lived in some poverty, we got… — Kenneth Cranham Copy Share Image
One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can graduate from university without… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to… — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
“Nobody is responsible for your sorrows and poverty, not even the devil. It is the work of the enemies of time that… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“When everyone is poor you don't know you're poor. My father worked so some of the boys thought I was actually rich.” — Stan Grant Copy Share Image
I had an extraordinary belief in myself. For years people told me to give it up and even though I was poverty-… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
The only way really to influence countries, in terms of poverty, is to get them to change their policies and get them… — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“If you look to the downtrodden and wonder why they can’t pull themselves out of poverty and get a nice job like… — David McRaney Copy Share Image
If the Planning Commission said those who live above Rs 5,000 a month are not at poverty line, obviously there is something… — Kapil Sibal Copy Share Image
I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Aggressive capitalism leads the world, and we can see the results, especially in Europe: more poverty for the vast majority, and more… — Costa-Gavras Copy Share Image
I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind hearted,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“There are lot of people with loads of money, but have poverty of the mind and soul. Money will only give you… — Itayi Garande Copy Share Image
What is really important is to educate people how to protect themselves and how to ensure that, despite their poverty, they can… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
A society is judged by the way it cares for its most vulnerable citizens. As an American, I am ashamed that we… — Marlo Thomas Copy Share Image
My primary goal is to eradicate poverty; I believe it is immoral and a stain on our society. And so when I… — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
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