History Quote by ben elton Download Open image ““People in that crowd want to make poverty history, but NOT if they have to pay for it themselves”” — ben elton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Money Poverty
“Poverty will make the best people bad, if it gets hard enough. Why there’s so much of it in the world, I’m sure I… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
I've often said that far more sensible than a 'make poverty history' campaign would be a 'make wealth history' campaign. It is, after all,… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
“If we’re all led to believe that poverty is just a matter of laziness or stupidity or whatever other justifications we come up with,… — Bob Torres Copy Share Image
“your poverty is serving no one. If you’re a charitable person, you’d be a whole lot more charitable if you had lots of money.” — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“I've always thought that was the lamest argument — that we need some people to be poor in order to remind the rest of… — Josephine Angelini Copy Share Image
“Poverty is two-faced—a matter of income and expenses, input and output—and in a world of exploitation, it will not be effectively ameliorated if we… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“Whenever i have Wealthy wealth trust me i will change the history of poverty” — Saad khan Copy Share Image
“I can't imagine what kind of poverty would motivate a person to forget themselves and everyone they loved so their families could get a… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“[H]e was damned if he was going to water down his arguments simply to satisfy the preference of the mob for dogma and ignorance.” — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a… — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
“We've just lost our way, that's all. But what if you could give us a chance to do better? Just one chance? One single… — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth running. — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its… — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away… — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
“New York will always seem more real than anything Britain has to offer. It is strange that, although the majority of British people have… — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I'd never used it. I'm 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s. — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
If I did things for the money, I'd have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered them, and… — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image