“Satin occupied a couple of rooms which a chemist had furnished for her in order to rescue her from the clutches of… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
In the event of a violent revolution, we would be sorely outnumbered. And when it was all over, the Negro would face… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There's no question that in my lifetime, the contrast between what I called private affluence and public squalor has become very much… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives. — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The information age has been driven and dominated by technopreneurs. We now have to apply these technologies in saving lives, improving livelihoods… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The distractions, the exhaustions, the savage noises, the demands of town life, are, for me, mortal enemies to thought, to sleep,and to… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
I was becoming addicted to Bombay. There was squalor and poverty, but I had begun to realise my good fortune and would… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
To travel only a few blocks in his own homeland, an elderly grandfather waits to beg for the whim of a teenage… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“I tell you, say the rich, the poor are naught but dirty wind welling in air-shafts over the cinders and droppings of… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The most abiding memory of visiting Lucian Freud's studio were his eyes, with the gimlet gaze of a Hooded Falcon. But he… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
So, is there hope for a truly democratic Africa? Long answer: Only if continent-wide improvements in education, human rights and public health… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Not only did I rediscover every experience of my life, I had to live each unfulfilled desire as well—as though they’d been… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There's no question that in my lifetime, the contrast between what I called private affluence and public squalor has become very much… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
South Africa is such a fraught place to live. The anxiety about crime, the crunching on racial eggshells, the juxtaposition of First… — Rory Carroll Copy Share Image
At the foot of the mountain, the park ended and suddenly all was squalor again. I was once more struck by this… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
It is just as important to bring people the evidence of the beauty of the world of nature and of man as… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
all the small squalors of the body, known only to oneself, insignificant in youth, easily dismissed, in old age became dominant and… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
No one is demonizing or even saying anything as intemperate as Donald Trump has said about blacks living in squalor conditions. — Donna Brazile Copy Share Image
The nation which once held the creed that greatness is achieved by production, is now told that it is achieved by squalor. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The mask of art is the means through which corruption is spread. The mask makes vice seem beautiful, turns squalor and nastiness… — Jennifer Birkett Copy Share Image
