"Poverty arises and persists where corruption is endemic……" — Colin Powell
"Poverty arises and persists where corruption is endemic and enterprise is stifled, where basic fairness provided by the rule of law is absent. In such circumstances, poverty is an assault against human dignity, and in that assault lies the natural seed of human anger"
—
Colin Powell
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
190 Quotes by Colin Powell
Colin Powell has 190 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Lying offshore, ready to act, the presence of ships and Marines sometimes means much more than just having air power…
-
I want to scare the hell out of the rest of the world.
-
You can be sure that the American spirit will prevail over this tragedy.
-
We are not going to dwell on those things that divide us. We are going to rejoice in those things…
-
Terrorism really flourishes in areas of poverty, despair and hopelessness, where people see no future
-
The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it
-
When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I'll like it or…
-
Look for intelligence and judgment and, most critically, a capacity to anticipate, to see around corners. Also look for loyalty,…
-
We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've done this as recently as…
-
I can think of nothing that Saddam Hussein can do diplomatically (to avoid war). I think that time is now…
-
My responsibility, our responsibility as lucky Americans, is to try to give back to this country as much as it…
-
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. I am talking about a gung-ho attitude that says 'we can change things here,…
See all 190 quotes by Colin Powell »
More Absent Quotes
This quote is filed under Absent Quotes,
one of 320 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in…
— Hannah Arendt
-
The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust…
— Annie Besant
-
Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
— Ambrose Bierce
-
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent…
— Elizabeth Bowen
-
Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of…
— Geraldine Brooks
-
The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
— Benjamin Franklin
-
Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will…
— John Calvin
-
Let's face it.., our current [immigration control] system is like a busy intersection without a traffic cop: sure there are…
— Ronald Reagan
-
All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of…
— Germaine Greer
-
When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot be exerted, wealth is useless, and…
— Herophilos
-
When the Spirit is absent, our excuses always seem right, but in the presence of the Spirit our excuses fade…
— R. T. Kendall
-
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with…
— Lucretius
See all 320 Absent Quotes »