“Close your eyes, Maxon." "What?" "Close your eyes. Somewhere in this palace, there is a woman who will be your wife. This… — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
It seems absolutely wrong that people should be able to profit in this cynical way from an event that is designed to… — James Purnell Copy Share Image
The rich do not have to invest enough in the poorest countries to make them rich; they need to invest enough so… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the… — Sal Albanese Copy Share Image
“All agree that, the first responsibility for the alleviation of poverty and distress and for the care of the victims of the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The number one thing in this world that has brought people out of poverty is the ease of doing business. And it's… — Rick Harrison Copy Share Image
“Well, honey, it’s capitalism that brings out the meanness and greed,” says I. “Our founding fathers did a decent job of framing… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
Plenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even the poverty, which is so frequent and distressful in civilized… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Do not let the bread of the hungry mildew in your larder! Do not let moths eat the poor man's cloak. Do… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
Hope and fear come from feeling that we lack something; they come from a sense of poverty. We can’t simply relax with… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
A fisherman, say, working on a beach doing his job, may be photographed by a tourist because it's photogenic to see him… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Poor laborers from all parts of Asia as well as Africa, the Americas and even Europe are transported by plane each day… — Alan Huffman Copy Share Image
The intelligent beings in these regions should therefore not be surprised if they observe that their locality in the universe satisfies the… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Show the world that your God is worth ten thousand worlds to you. Show rich men how rich you are in your… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“There is no end in India, Mr. Jiabao,as Mr. Ashok so correctly used to say. You'll have to keep paying and paying… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
I think the United States and the secretary of State should be concerned about the poverty in this country - people without… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
The main message of Climate Revolution is that climate change is caused by the rotten financial system we've got, designed to create… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
“Descend lower, descend only Into the world of perpetual solitude, World not world, but that which is not world, Internal darkness, deprivation… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
... it is more than petty treason to the Republic, to call a free citizen a servant. The whole class of young… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
Those peculiar social sensibilities nourished by our own peculiar political principles, while they enhancethe true dignity of a prosperous American, do but… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“You cannot defeat a strong man who believes in himself. He cannot be pushed down, cannot be ridiculed down, talked down, or… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“She did not want to be a cliché or hackneyed example of an inner-city girl. She wanted to battle against the forces… — Colleen Smith-Dennis Copy Share Image
So many sins against the poor cry out to high heaven! One of the most deadly sins is to deprive the laborer… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
If we want to help poor people out, one way to do that is to help them explore and use their own… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Welfare now erodes work and family and thus keeps poor people poor. Accompanying welfare is an ideology - sustaining a whole system… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
“I (John Stone) have never had any great desire to abolish poverty or save fallen women; I am, and always have been,… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
You talk about a hateful bunch of people. They have this hate list. Charles Murray. He has been victimized with riots on… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Each one of us pray, day and night, for the downtrodden millions in India, who are held fast by poverty, priest craft,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, through a revery of long days and nights; destined… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I bear witness, O my God, that Thou hast created me to know Thee and to worship Thee. I testify, at this… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
For most Black people there is still poverty and desperation. The Ghettos still exist, and the proportion of Blacks in prison is… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
In 'Saami,' I take a poor dhobi's son for admission to a private school. The principal refuses for various reasons and finally… — Vivek Copy Share Image
A miser is sometimes a grand personification of fear. He has a fine horror of poverty; and he is not content to… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm enthralled by the national yearning that the Russians had during the 50s and 60s. The whole century was pretty rough for… — George Meyer Copy Share Image
Let us hear the dangers of thralldom to our consciences from ignorance, extreme poverty, and dependence; in short, from civil and political… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“The more you share, the more you grow. And the more you share, the more you have - whatsoever it is. It… — Osho Copy Share Image
The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society. This is true despite the significant poverty,… — Alan Bersin Copy Share Image
