Adversity Quote by Eunice Kennedy Shriver

I will say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that is more than I can say for prosperity.

— Kin Hubbard

Abused prosperity is oftentimes made the very means of our greatest adversity.

— Daniel Defoe

What we apparently have failed to grasp is that, in this new world in which we live, the collective hunger of great masses of…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“We, the over-class, have taken those basic human drives and advanced our own selves through their exploitation. We have monetized human consumption, manipulated morals…

— Guillermo del Toro

Prosperity often presages adversity.

— Hosea Ballou

The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly, and then you give some of…

— Thomas Sowell

The concentration of wealth in the hands of the few threatens the ability of ordinary people to raise their voices and have a say…

— Winnie Byanyima

The market fundamentalist ideology that dominates much of the west has attempted to indoctrinate us with a simple myth: that we all rise or…

— Owen Jones

What the welfare system and other kinds of governmental programs are doing is paying people to fail. In so far as they fail, they…

— Thomas Sowell

When you create an economy where you subsidize corporate profits through a welfare program and food stamps in order to keep wages low in…

— Martin O'Malley

The worthless and offensive members of society, whose existence is a social pest, invariably think themselves the most ill-used people alive, and never get…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We seldom consider how much of our lives we must render in return for some object we barely want, seldom need, buy only because…

— Ferenc Mate