Ending poverty Quote by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: but with poverty everything becomes frightful.

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Everything that poverty touches becomes frightful.

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Ending poverty calls for humility, honesty, freedom from ideology and refusal to accept cruel simplicities about anyone's human potential. It requires listening to the…

— Donella Meadows

The greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing and despising…

— Maria Montessori

Let's share our abundance and make our country stronger.

— John Travolta

Supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“If there are frightful monsters in fairy tales, they do not frighten you now, because that kind of monster is no longer going about…

— Andrew Lang

Everyone must become their own person, however frightful that may be.

— Albert Einstein

The frightful engines of ecclesiastical councils, of diabolical malice, and Calvinistical good-nature never failed to terrify me exceedingly whenever I thought of preaching.

— John Adams

“Far away on the path we saw Sir Henry looking back, his face white in the moonlight, his hands raised in horror, glaring helplessly…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born and at once one is guilty.

— Hermann Hesse

It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

— Victor Hugo