Industrial Society is not merely one containing 'industry,' large-scale productive units capable of supplying man's material needs in a way which can… — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
“At present I do not feel that I have seen more than the fringe of poverty. Still, I can point to one… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It is time that capital and labor realized that their interests are really comutual, as interdependent as the brain and the body;… — William Cowper Brann Copy Share Image
“Would it not be better if they spent more money on wholesome things like oranges and wholemeal bread or if they even,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
But the economic meltdown should have undone, once and for all, the idea of poverty as a personal shortcoming or dysfunctional state… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Pregnant women who are at risk for suffering complications and even death are in the prime of their lives. The most affected… — Robin Lim Copy Share Image
I would say that the writers I like and trust have at the base of their prose something called the English sentence.… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“One would never defeat one's circumstances by working and saving one's pennies; one would never, by working, acquire that many pennies, and,… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
The haggardness of poverty is everywhere seen contrasted with the sleekness of wealth, the exhorted labour of some compensating for the idleness… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
“I also remember that my father was one of the people who voted to get the Dauntless out of the factionless sector… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man… — Sydney Madwed Copy Share Image
“People are wrong when they think that an unemployed man only worries about losing his wages; on the contrary, an illiterate man,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
Houdini connected to people on an emotional level so that when he would escape that straight jacket it wasn't about the straight… — Criss Angel Copy Share Image
When men and women fail to form stable marriages, the result is a vast expansion of government attempts to cope with the… — Maggie Gallagher Copy Share Image
When I was little, my parents belonged to a cult, a big Buddhist sect called Soka Gakkai. I didn't have any particular… — Takashi Murakami Copy Share Image
“In liberation theology, Marxism is never treated as a subject on its own but always from and in relation to the poor.… — Leonardo Boff and Clodovis Boff Copy Share Image
Conservatives highlight the primacy of family and argue that family breakdown exacerbates poverty, and they're right. Children raised by single parents are… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
“For many great deeds are accomplished in times of squalid struggle. There is a kind of stubborn, unrecognized courage which in the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“I knew, of course, that I should be well paid for my services, but I would gladly have accepted half the sum… — Catherine Crowe Copy Share Image
The collective shortfall of the 3.08 billion people (47 percent of world population) who, in 2005, lived below $2.50 per day was… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
70% of children born into poverty will never make it to the middle class. The uncomfortable truth is that there are now… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“From 1960 to 1970, as the New Deal expanded into the Great Society, the number of Americans in poverty declined from 40… — Ian Haney López Copy Share Image
Bless them that persecute you.' If our enemy cannot put up with us any longer and takes to cursing us, our immediate… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I visited the Ethiopian National Project which was created by the government to fully integrate Ethiopian Jews into Israel's society. They're still… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
Materialism blinds us to our spiritual poverty. Jesus rebuked the Laodicean Christians because although they were materially wealthy, they were desperately poor… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
“As for my own answers to any of this? I have none. I'm far more confused than before I first went. I've… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The train bore me away, through the monstrous scenery of slag-heaps, chimneys, piled scrap-iron, foul canals, paths of cindery mud criss-crossed by… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
When it comes to solving problems of poverty, impact investing can act as a catalyst, but it is not a silver bullet.… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
... the hey-day of a woman's life is on the shady side of fifty, when the vital forces heretofore expended in other… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and… — Jennifer Garner Copy Share Image
If one looks at the history of India after independence in 1947, for the first 30 to 40 years I think we… — Cyril Shroff Copy Share Image
We have reduced poverty in the world by 50% since the year 1970 - the number of people who go to bed… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
The existence of poverty in the US should not be accepted as a necessary evil or insoluble problem, but should be considered… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod-always bored, often… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
At the very least, you must make the Internet free in areas that are poverty-stricken. Without the Internet and access to information,… — Byron Allen Copy Share Image
We must not only control the weapons that can kill us, we must bridge the great disparities of wealth and opportunity among… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland. I could… — Bernadette Devlin Copy Share Image
We live in a world community, and economic contact has partly contributed to that. Its also the case that economic opportunity opened… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
My upbringing has been pushing and pulling my work my whole life. At first it pushed me away, as I sought to… — Clayton James Cubitt Copy Share Image
