Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace. — Horace Copy Share Image
I see an America where poverty is defeated by opportunity, not enabled by a government check. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
“The products your life must have could be in the form of an improved character and virtue.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
You cannot wipe out Dalit's poverty just by embracing poor children and spending nights in their huts. — Mayawati Copy Share Image
“How tragic it is to find that an entire lifetime is wasted in pursuit of distractions while purpose is neglected.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing… — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
There is still a severe and scary amount of extreme poverty in rural parts of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma and sub-Saharan Africa. — Hans Rosling Copy Share Image
“The lives of the thirty thousand children who die of starvation each day is like 6 september 11ths every single day, a… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Today, the United States is No. 1 in corporate profits, No. 1 in CEO salaries, No. 1 in childhood poverty and No.… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Families who get evicted tend to live in worse housing than they did before, and they live in neighborhoods with higher poverty… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Indeed, in US politics, 'poverty', along with 'welfare', 'unwed mothers' and 'crime', became code words for blacks. — Frances Fox Piven Copy Share Image
Within a single school, teachers often encounter differences in poverty levels, parent involvement, and student readiness. — Charles Best Copy Share Image
I decided that the whole idea of what it means to be an artist was that somehow you are ontologically oriented toward… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
“If capitalist realism is so seamless, and if current forms of resistance are so hopeless and impotent, where can an effective challenge… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
For nearly a century, the moral relativism of science has given faith-based religion--that great engine of ignorance and bigotry--a nearly uncontested claim… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The levels of poverty in 1933's rural America were unimaginable to us now. The 1933 Farm Bill, which introduced unprecedented government control… — Debbie Stabenow Copy Share Image
I've been to Australia, Russia and many of places I wanted to see as a child. But I've never visited India. I've… — Chris de Burgh Copy Share Image
Want to depose the government of a poor country with resources? Want to bash Muslims? Want to build support for American military… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
We are here because we share a fundamental belief: that poverty, illiteracy, disease and inequality do not belong in the twenty-first century.… — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Copy Share Image
“Poverty does not necessarily lead to extremism,’ I said. In my head, images of the proud Imams defending their traditions against the… — Ben Rawlence Copy Share Image
