Ifs Quote by Stanislaw Lem

Look around you. Your world-hosts are all in mutiny, in confusion, destitution; on the eve of fiery wreck and madness! They will not march…

— Thomas Carlyle

That odd capacity for destitution, as if by nature we ought to have so much more than nature gives us. As if we are…

— Marilynne Robinson

When we came to this country, unfortunately, my father lost his job, and we were this close to destitution. We were put on food…

— Raja Krishnamoorthi

Atheism can never be an institution ... it can never be more than a destitution.

— Robert Collyer

That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to…

— Seneca the Younger

“I've always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I've got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I've got hold…

— Peter Cook

All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated.

— Kofi Annan

“In places where government priorities and market imperatives create a world so capricious that to help a neighbor is to risk your ability to…

— Katherine Boo

In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“Poor people do not go on holiday; they go home.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Parents who are stressed or disturbed will have more difficulty in meeting their children's needs. Parents who have little support--from friends, relatives, neighbors, or…

— Sheila Kamerman

Give me, indulgent gods with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene, No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No well-bred hate,…

— Edward Young