“You see, it is my passionately held belief that the right to possess property is at best a contingent one. When disparities… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I think President Barack Obama is going to be treated very, very well by history in terms of his ability to save… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
“The poor man, a term which means the man who doesn't know how to operate and release the riches of his mind,… — Joseph Murphy Copy Share Image
I would like to ask all those who have positions of responsibility in economic, political and social life, and all men and… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second,… — Xi Jinping Copy Share Image
I see a violation of human rights not in the mere fact that people don't have enough to eat and that they… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
The problems we face today, violent conflicts, destruction of nature, poverty, hunger and so on, are human-created problems which can be resolved… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men… — Salman Rushdie 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
“The millions of vacationers who came here every year before Katrina were mostly unaware of this poverty. French Quarter tourists were rarely… — Billy Sothern Copy Share Image
Oh God, God, please come to me, please illumine me, please act in me and through me. I don't know what's right… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We should condemn as unjust a global economic order that leads to ever-increasing economic disparities - provided this effect is foreseeable and… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
There are literally billions of people on the planet who live in an unimaginable poverty that's not in any way different from… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
Inevitably, people tell me that poor folks are lazy or unintelligent, that they are somehow deserving of their poverty. However, if you… — Bob Torres Copy Share Image
“There is, in the circumstances of modern life, only one solution to the problem of resentment, and that is social mobility. The… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“You are put in school to be trained to become exactly what they want you to be: not them, anything but them.… — craig stone Copy Share Image
Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and the Tartar… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
If you have any lack, if you are prey to poverty or disease, it is because you do not believe or do… — Robert Collier Copy Share Image
It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without physic, and secure without a guard; to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There are different varieties and forms of capitalism. There are priorities within the capitalist society so that you can have countervailing forces… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The Bishops of the Philippines have asked that this year be set aside as the ‘Year of the Poor.’ I hope that… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
One of the major causes of poverty is a lack of family planning. Governments and nonprofit organizations need to encourage poor people… — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
I grew up in poverty, so I thought, 'I want to be a billionaire one day. I'll go and work for Donald… — Omarosa Manigault Newman Copy Share Image
Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
“Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
There has always been a longing in the human heart for a more just, free, loving and creative society. But it was… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
It isn't easy for everyone in Germany to make ends meet through well-paid work in Germany. You have to have sufficient skills… — Sigmar Gabriel Copy Share Image
“Those who reject Christianity will not be moved by Christ’s statement that poverty is blessed. But here a rather remarkable fact comes… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When you are raised, as John Edwards was, in a small town like Robbins, North Carolina, you get to understand poverty and… — Harvey Gantt Copy Share Image
“Poverty ... is a most necessary and indispensable ingredient in society, without which nations and communities could not exist in a state… — Patrick Colquhoun Copy Share Image
King had come to Memphis to lend his moral authority to the struggle of striking municipal sanitation workers who were overwhelmingly African-American.… — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
I think one of the biggest mistakes that America has made - and maybe the world because this is, sort of, the… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
You will live to see men arise in power in the Church who will seek to put down your friends and the… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to seek them out for… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
For many Washington liberals, terrorism was not the instrument of political fanatics and evil men, but was the product of social conditions… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
“Principle #23 - Poverty is a disease of the mind. There is a very contagious disease in our world today and people… — Vincent K. Harris Copy Share Image
The earth has enough knowledge and resources to eradicate this ancient scourge. Hunger has plagued the world for thousands of years. But… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
