Progress is more plausibly judged by the reduction of deprivation than by the further enrichment of the opulent — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
“For you not to waste or spend your life, you must first understand that time is life and life is time.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I shovel [money] out, and God shovels it back...but God has a bigger shovel! — R. G. LeTourneau Copy Share Image
“Poverty doesn’t allow of honourable feeling, any more than of compassion.” — George Gissing Copy Share Image
Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is apt rather… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
I can't eradicate poverty, but at least for the people around me, I can help make sure no child is denied a… — Priyanka Chopra Copy Share Image
“Some people in orthodox churches in Africa take poverty as a path that leads to heaven, making christianity look unattractive.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I knew there was a way out. I knew there was another kind of life because I had read about it. I… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Brazil has a lot of issues that are similar to a lot of countries in Latin America, but the dominant issue Brazil… — Morena Baccarin Copy Share Image
We have done some of these in Bangladesh. Whenever I see a problem, I immediately go and create a company. That's what… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
People in the U.K. don't imagine what it is to live in extreme poverty here in Colombia or anywhere in the so-called… — Juan Manuel Santos Copy Share Image
“What do you see out there?” I ask. “Pittsburgh,” he replies. Now I laugh. “No, young man. What you see is hell… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
“To get rich, one must have but a single idea, one fixed, hard, immutable thought: the desire to make a heap of… — Petrus Borel Copy Share Image
There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavour of life until he has known poverty, love and war.… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
“Without some redistribution of wealth and power, downward mobility and debilitating poverty will continue to drive people into desperate channels. And without… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
In this fight I want to show people who are in poverty, downtrodden or denied that you can succeed. I want my… — Tavoris Cloud Copy Share Image
“Launching a turnaround takes courage. I cannot measure that and so it is not going to be included in my analysis, but… — Paul Collier Copy Share Image
“...education is not the way out of the poverty trap. A high education level is no guarantee of high productivity. The truth… — William W. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The poor man is incapacitated from showing the virtue of generosity to anyone, though he may possess it in the highest degree;… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty,… — Plato Copy Share Image
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