Connections Quote by Henry Hazlitt

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.

— Benjamin Franklin

“Certain leaders and politicians intentionally maintain conditions of poverty and hardship to secure their own power. Instead of implementing lasting solutions, they exploit people’s…

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

By seeing the problem of poverty merely in terms of assistance, we overlook that our enormous economic advantage is deeply tainted by how it…

— Thomas Pogge

“Poverty cannot be defeated unless you first defeat it in the mind.”

— Nicky Verd

Many communities are already devastated by poverty. Increasingly, that poverty is born of the greed of a global trading system.

— Sharan Burrow

Productive and sustainable job creation, along with increased and better-targeted social expenditure, are the only routes to permanently beat the poverty trap and to…

— Piyush Goyal

For, when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications and the…

— George Orwell

The poor of the world cannot be made rich by the redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty,…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Individual initiative alone and the mere free play of competition could never assure successful development. One must avoid the risk of increasing still more…

— Pope Paul VI

“Poverty is a powerful motivator”

— David shamala

In effect, a selfish and boundless thirst for power and material prosperity leads both to the misuse of available natural resources and to the…

— Pope Francis