Avenues Quote by Cornel West

The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people.

— Cornel West

Whatever posessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go out of…

— Rumi

Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness.

— Peter Singer

Poverty and deprivation lead to frustration, making the masses vulnerable to exploitation by extremist organizations.

— Pervez Musharraf

All who strive to live for something beyond mere selfish aims find their capacities for doing good very inadequate to their aspirations. They do…

— Lydia M. Child

All who strive to live for something beyond mere selfish aims find their capacities for doing good veryinadequate to their aspirations. They do so…

— Lydia M Child

Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result…

— Janice Rogers Brown

Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent

— Plato

Those who can bring themselves to renounce wealth, position and power accruing from a social system based on violence and putting a premium on…

— A. J. Muste

The more opportunities there are in a Society for some persons to live upon the toil of others, and the less those others may…

— Anders Chydenius

When our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need for something apart from us to live…

— Eric Hoffer

Under miserable conditions of life, any vision of the possibility of better things makes the present misery more intolerable, and spurs those who suffer…

— Emma Goldman