One day there springs up the desire for money and for all that money can provide - the superfluous, luxury in eating,… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I challenge British Muslims to accept that as strongly as they feel about Iraq or counter-terrorism measures, poverty and inequality have the… — Sadiq Khan Copy Share Image
Poverty is a national waste as well as individual waste. We are all diminished when any of us are denied proper education.… — Gough Whitlam Copy Share Image
In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
No matter how much I wanted all those things that I needed money to buy, there was some devilish current pushing me… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Don't be a writer; it's a terrible way to live your life. There's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Which statements are true according to the passage? A) Science, governments, and your doctor should be trusted. B) 'Comforting her deep into… — Tupelo Hassman Copy Share Image
“We're not as free and independent as we thought. Street-level work that disrupts the infrastructure (the sewer system below or the electrical… — Matthew B. Crawford Copy Share Image
True evangelical faith, cannot lie dormant, it clothes the naked, it feeds the hungry, it comforts the sorrowful, it shelters the destitute,… — Menno Simons Copy Share Image
The scientific community having made a rapid ascent from deep poverty to great affluence, from academe's cloisters to Washington's high councils, still… — Daniel S Greenberg Copy Share Image
“It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Twenty per cent of American children grow up in poverty, and that means they get inadequate nutrition, inadequate health care, and because… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Man! The most complex of creatures, and for this reason the most dependant of creatures. On everything that has formed you, you… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
“There are millions of people who believe themselves “doomed” to poverty and failure, because of some strange force over which they believe… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
I am proud to live in a country with an African-American president. But President Obama cannot be proud of the fact that… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
If that's your definition of the Clinton faction, then I think that that seems to be in ascendancy. That might include a… — John Podesta Copy Share Image
It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
“If you don’t monitor your life, you will regret it. If you don’t measure your life you will regret it. If you… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
What we've undergone in recent decades worldwide has been totally insane, and all of this is a result of capitalism. The workforce… — Rafael Correa Copy Share Image
There's much talk about how there can't be democracy in a region that has problems of illiteracy and poverty. But I bring… — Bobby Ghosh Copy Share Image
“How reprehensible it is when those blessed with commodities insist on ignoring the poor. Better to torment them, force them into indentured… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
People say what distinguishes us from the animals is that we think. Well, then why the hell don't we extend some compassion… — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
Raising the minimum wage may poll well, but having a job that pays $10 an hour is not the American Dream. And… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I strongly believe that we can create a poverty-free world, if we want to… In that kind of world, [the] only place… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
I think we communicate only too well, in our silence, in what is unsaid, and that what takes place is a continual… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
Investment in the eradication of hunger today is a good business decision. If we fail to make this investment, it is doubtful… — Alan Hassenfeld Copy Share Image
The intelligent poor individual was a much finer observer than the intelligent rich one. The poor individual looks around him at every… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
Poverty when coupled with creativeness is usually free of frustration. This is true of the poor artisan skilled in his trade and… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Independently of the curious circumstance that such tales should be found existing in very different countries and languages, which augurs a greater… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Like many others, I'm deeply sympathetic to the huge numbers of people looking to come here today to escape suffering and poverty… — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
“If achieving world peace and ending poverty were really genuine concerns to the majority, then they would have happened already by now.… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Do you find yourself in a dry place today? Don’t look back toward the land of your bondage, or even to the… — Amy Layne Litzelman Copy Share Image
“They" hate us because they feel--and "they" are not wrong--that it is within our power to do so much more, and that… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The Millennium Development Goals were a pledge to uphold the principles of human dignity, equality and equity, and free the world from… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
I am furious at the way that we have allowed money to subvert our democracy. I am appalled at the way that… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs -… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
We are working towards a shared vision of the future for health among all the world's people. A vision future in which… — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share Image
The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. They forget, perhaps, that his religion… — Charles Alexander Eastman Copy Share Image
If responsibility for the upbringing of children is to continue to be vested in the family, then the rights of children will… — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image