“Business is one of the most powerful institutions on Earth for creating wealth and opportunity and helping to lift people out of poverty. When you think about it that way, then business is not separate from development policy.” PeopleThinkingWayHelpingEarthOpportunityWealthPowerfulPovertyPolicyDevelopmentCreatingInstitutionsLiftsMost PowerfulCreating Wealth Author:Peter Blair Henry
“Everything that civilisation has to offer is a product of human intelligence; we cannot predict what we might achieve when this intelligence is magnified by the tools that AI may provide, but the eradication of war, disease, and poverty would be high on anyone's list. Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last.” HumansMayWarMightWould BeLastsPovertyAchieveEventsProductsOffersDiseaseCreatingToolsListsArtificial IntelligenceHuman HistoryCivilisationHuman Intelligence Author:Stephen Hawking
“I think there are so many children being brought up in some form of violence, be it violence of poverty or sexism or racism or homophobia or transphobia. That violence takes a life to transform or overcome. I don't think people should be spending their lives dealing with that. I think people should be thriving, playing, creating, evolving.” PeopleThinkingShouldChildrenFormPovertyViolenceCreatingRacismOvercomingSpendingEvolveSexismHomophobia Author:Eve Ensler
“We refuse to share resources; we govern irresponsibly. If we are confident, if we have some of our cultural values, then we would be more committed to assisting our people out of poverty and creating an environment that can make it possible for our friends to assist us.” PeopleIfsWould BeValuesPovertyEnvironmentShareCreatingResourcesCommittedRefuseAssisting Author:Wangari Maathai
“Peace is not just the absence of war. True peace depends upon creating the opportunity that makes life worth living. And to do that, we must confront the common enemies of human beings: nuclear weapons and poverty; ignorance and disease.” HumansWarOpportunityHuman BeingsCommonEnemyPovertyIgnoranceDependsDiseaseCreatingWeaponsAbsenceNuclearNuclear WeaponsWorth LivingLife Worth LivingTrue PeaceCommon Enemy Author:Barack Obama
“Capitalism in the 19th century did not doom the worker to a life of perpetual poverty. Instead, they kept creating new and better-paying employments as the decades went by. They produced the wealth and rising income that resulted in the emergence of a phenomenon completely new to human history: a self-supporting and educated middle class that grew more and more as they lower classes bettered their economic well-being.” HumansWellsSelfWealthClassPovertyEconomicMiddleCenturyGrewCreatingCapitalismWorkersDecadesIncomeEducatedEmploymentWell BeingRisingMiddle ClassPhenomenonPerpetualHuman HistoryDoom19th CenturyEmergenceLower Class Author:Richard Ebeling
“America has exercised its power to insist on elections in Palestine, which Hamas did win. Once they won, we then engaged in a policy not only of ostracism, but by financial boycott, in effect of undermining it, and creating more tension and radicalism and poverty in Gaza, which was susceptible to exploitation by Hamas.” AmericaWinningPovertyEffectsPolicyCreatingElectionFinancialEngagedTensionExploitationPalestineSusceptibleGazaUnderminingHamasBoycottRadicalismOstracism Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski
“Much good art got made while money ruled; I like a lot of it, and hardship and poverty aren't virtues. The good news is that, since almost no one will be selling art, artists - especially emerging ones - won't have to think about turning out a consistent style or creating a brand. They'll be able to experiment as much as they want.” ThinkingWantArtMadeAbleArtistPovertyVirtueStyleCreatingNewsExperimentsSellingBrandsConsistentHardshipGood NewsEmergingGood Art Author:Jerry Saltz
“The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.” PeoplePoorPovertyTaxesCreatingPoor PeopleTaxationCollectorsFederal Taxes Author:Bill Vaughan