Genius may be almost defined as the faculty of acquiring poverty. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign — Frederik Willem de Klerk Copy Share Image
The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
The State is a poor, good beast who means the best: it means friendly. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are poor in character when we think getting by is a substitute for doing our best. — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
We remain a highly unequal society in which poverty and prosperity are still defined by race as well as gender. — Cyril Ramaphosa Copy Share Image
“Coca cola and McDonalds is spreading. Just like hunger and poverty.” — Tim Goossens Copy Share Image
If you are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life, your reward will be that you will eat, but… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A hungry mind is not free, and I felt if we were really going to make a difference and fight poverty we… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Poor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich from an inordinate… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
The kids who take up athletics actually come from modest to poor backgrounds. They make it on their own steam; some of… — Dutee Chand Copy Share Image
“even in their poverty they carried themselves with a fierce and stubborn pride that warned others to treat them with respect.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
You have to understand the role the landlords are playing in shaping neighborhoods, how they potentially expand or reduce inequality, how their… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“they asked the poor what it was like to be poor, the hungry what it was like to be hungry, the homeless… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
A very little familiarity with the poor districts of any city is sufficient to show how primitive and genuine are the neighborly… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
We love to think this fundamentalism and terrorism is all about poverty, and, of course, it has a connection. You can see… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
I have heard it said that families with many children and high birth rates are among the cause of poverty. It seems… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Hundreds of millions of people around the world have been lifted out of poverty with the creation of robust middle classes in… — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
“If, by the virtue of charity or the circumstance of desperation, you ever chance to spend a little time around a Substance-recovery… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
There are still hundreds of millions, billions of people living in abject poverty around the world. They need electricity. They need electricity… — Rex Tillerson Copy Share Image
My family spent many years sleeping side by side in the same room. It's important for me to not separate myself from… — Abdellah Taia Copy Share Image
The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
There is not such a mighty difference as some men imagine between the poor and the rich; in pomp, show, and opinion,… — Thomas Sherlock Copy Share Image
I have no patience for those who say that poverty is a blessing. Poverty is the greatest curse on earth. — Roger McDonald Copy Share Image
Microfinance recognizes that poor people are remarkable reservoirs of energy and knowledge — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
A poor man has no need of justice and a rich man has no need of character. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
“If you tempted a poor man with a fortune, who could blame the fellow for taking what he could?” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“...the day shit is worth money, poor people will be born without an asshole” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
“Time can be converted to anything. It is from that time that everything is made.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
It is conflict overall that mires people in poverty. That is the first law of development. — Andrew Mitchell Copy Share Image
“#302. "The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel...its poverty by how little." ~” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The products your life must have could be in the form of perfecting your gifts and talents.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
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