Wells Quotes

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Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love. — Karl Kraus
We have to craft new political realities, not only in places like India, Afghanistan, Kenya, Pakistan, but here at home as well. Another world is… — Alex Steffen
Compassionate thought is the most precious thing there is. It is something that only we human beings can develop. And if we have a good… — Dalai Lama
We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the… — Martin Sheen
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise. — Bertolt Brecht
It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be. — Kin Hubbard
Why should men leave great fortunes to their children? If this is done from affection, is it not misguided affection? Observation teaches that, generally speaking,… — Andrew Carnegie
You think that your silence on certain topics, perhaps in the face of injustice, or unkindness, or mean-spiritedness, causes others to reserve judgement of you.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
With a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war, the US and Australia could ensure every starving, sunken-eyed… — Bob Brown
Terrorism isn't insanity. It grows out of social conditions that are well known: poverty, social oppression, dictatorship, and a void of meaning in the lives… — Deepak Chopra
Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich, my virtue then… — William Shakespeare
The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them,… — Mother Teresa
To live in poverty is to live with constant uncertainty, to accept galling indignities, and to expect harassment by the police, welfare officials and employers,… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign — Frederik Willem de Klerk
Poverty is a career for lot's of well paid people — Ronald Reagan
Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor! — Oliver Wendell Holmes
The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving… — George Eliot
To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Farewell, my sister, fare thee well. The elements be kind to thee, and make Thy spirits all of comfort: fare thee well. — William Shakespeare
Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats. — Mahatma Gandhi
He is happy as well as great who needs neither to obey nor to command in order to be something. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The hero is known for achievements; the celebrity for well-knowns. The hero reveals the possibilities of human nature. The celebrity reveals the possibilities of the… — Daniel J. Boorstin
I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored. — Studs Terkel
Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy - common clay, if you like - eating, breeding, working, counting… — Jean Anouilh
I'm haunted by the thought of what Ray Anderson calls 'tomorrow's child,' asking why we didn't do something on our watch to save sharks and… — Sylvia Earle

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