Books Quote by Evita Peron

Well-fed people can enhance their dignity, their health and their learning capacity. Putting resources into social programs is not expenditure. It is investment.

— Anonymous

“What we call aid money serves only to strengthen the structures that generate poverty. Aid money never reaches those victims who, having lost their…

— Majid Rahnema

I wish we questioned the aid model as much as we are questioning the capitalism model. Sometimes the most generous thing you can do…

— Dambisa Moyo

Philanthropy is not about the money. It's about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.

— Melinda Gates

The money is in television. Books are not the dominant medium of our time, so fewer people will create them. In a sad way,…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Fortunately, I have money that's from my life's work. But it's money that I share and used greatly to fight poverty in my country.

— Vicente Fox

The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times…

— Paul Ryan

Real poverty is lack of books.

— Sidonie Gabrielle

I think that we need to measure how we give dollars to libraries by need. And the communities that are poor, in my opinion,…

— Sandra Cisneros

Most of you didn't think that helping people share books would be a subversive act...Yet the fact is that you have chosen a profession…

— Naomi Klein

The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform.

— Robert Scheer

My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse…

— Joseph Howe