Best Poorest Quotes
215 Poorest quotes by 169 unique authors
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The man of culture is one of the poorest mortals alive. For simple pedantry and want of good sense no man is his equal. No…
— Frederic Harrison
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...99% of the casualties linked to climate change occur in developing countries. Worst hit are the world's poorest groups. While climate change will increasingly affect…
— Rajendra K. Pachauri
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For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our…
— John J. Sweeney
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The world's forests need to be seen for what they are.. giant global utilities, providing essential services to humanity on a vast scale. Rainforests store…
— Prince Charles
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First, climate change is the greatest long-term threat faced by humanity. It could cause more human and financial suffering than the two world wars and…
— David Miliband
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I'm not the poorest president. The poorest is the one who needs a lot to live. My lifestyle is a consequence of my wounds. I'm…
— Jose Mujica
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The merits of deeper debt cancellation, when accompanied by conditions of accountability and transparency on the part of recipient countries, have been shown to generate…
— John Ricard
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I believe that companies, doing business in a responsible and sustainable way, can help raise the quality of life and standards of living in some…
— Unknown Author
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Millions of people in the world's poorest countries remain enslaved by the chains of poverty. It is time to set them free.
— Nelson Mandela
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Black people are the magical faces at the bottom of society's well. Even the poorest whites, those who must live their lives only a few…
— Derrick Bell
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In America, no other distinction between man and man had ever been known but that of persons in office exercising powers by authority of the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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And the poorest twig on the elm-tree was ridged inch deep with pearl.
— James Russell Lowell
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The poorest shack in which love prevails over a united family is of greater value to God and future humanity than any other riches. In…
— Rex D. Pinegar
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The world would be better off if people tried to become better, And people would become better if they stopped trying to be better off.…
— Peter Maurin
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Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds. Pity the nation that needs to jail those who ask for justice,…
— Arundhati Roy
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Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable? One…
— George Gissing
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Liberals believe that crime is inextricably linked with poverty. In reality, most poor people never resort to crime, and some wealthy people commit evil acts…
— Rush Limbaugh
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Trade is now clearly designed to favor the wealthiest and most powerful corporations at the expense of the rest of us. The three wealthiest people…
— Jim Wallis
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It has been hard to muster the resources to support fledgling democracies- or to help the world's most desperate - the AIDS orphan in Uganda,…
— Condoleezza Rice
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To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may…
— James A. Garfield
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For me, life is the most beautiful gift of God to mankind, therefore people and nations who destroy life by abortion and euthanasia are the…
— Mother Teresa
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I can live well with what I have.I’m called ‘the poorest president’, but I don’t feel poor. Poor people are those who only work to…
— Jose Mujica
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I'm not the poorest president. The poorest is the one who needs a lot to live,
— Jose Mujica
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I'm certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes ... Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point. Its utility…
— Bill Gates
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I want you to understand that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed [to deny others their rights or…
— John Brown
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