“Seventy-five percent of our energy around the earth is being poured into war efforts. Are we servants of death and destruction? This 75 percent of energy could be poured into life, into the service of life-and there will be laughter, and there will be greater health, and there will be more wealth, more food. There will be no poverty. There is no need for poverty to exist at all.” NeedsWarMotivationalEarthEnergyWealthEffortPovertyFiveGreaterLaughterPercentDestructionServantSeventies Author:Rajneesh
“We know there are no weapons of mass destruction. But there are weapons of misdirection. Millions without health insurance, poverty abounds. For war, billions more, but no more for the poor.” KnowsWarPoorPovertyMillionsWeaponsMassDestructionBillionsWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionMisdirection Author:Joseph Lowery
“Socialism's failure in the former Soviet Union and in the other socialist countries stands as a clean and unquestionable warning as to which path any rational and sane people should never follow again. Government planning brought poverty and ruin...Unfortunately, America is not absorbing the lessons that should be learned from the socialist experience and, instead, is following the same path of destruction.” PeopleShouldCountryGovernmentAmericaPovertyPathLessonsDestructionUnionsCleanFollowingPlanningSocialismRationalRuinsFormerWarningSovietSaneSocialistSoviet UnionAbsorbingSocialist Countries Author:Richard Ebeling
“I've had two great years, probably five good years. So I had 20 years of just kind of uncertainty and suffering and ego destruction and poverty. All these things. There's no way I'm ever going to catch up to the misery years. It's impossible... If I don't do anything dumb or I don't get a disease or something, and then I've got to five to eight years I think where it'll really be great and then it will start to degenerate like uranium, you know?” IfsThinkingKnowsWayYearsKindTwoSufferingPovertyFiveImpossibleEgoDiseaseDestructionMiseryEightDumbUncertaintyDegeneratesUraniumGreat YearGood Years Author:Louis C. K.
“I've had, what, two years? Probably five good years. Before that I had twenty years of uncertainty and suffering and ego destruction and poverty. All those things. That'll always outweigh the good times.” YearsTwoSufferingPovertyFiveEgoDestructionTwentiesUncertaintyGood TimesTwo YearsGood Years Author:Louis C. K.
“The communications revolution has given millions of people both a wider and more detailed understanding of the world. Because of technology, ordinary citizens enjoy access to information that formerly was available only to elites and nation-states. One consequence of this change is that citizens have become acutely conscious of environmental destruction, entrenched poverty, health catastrophes, human rights abuses, failing education systems, and escalating violence. Another consequence is that people possess powerful communication tools to coordinate efforts to attack those problems.” PeopleWorldHumansStatesProblemGivenNationsEnjoyUnderstandingPowerfulEffortEducationPovertyMillionsTechnologyRightsViolenceFailingInformationCommunicationRevolutionCitizensHealthyOrdinaryConsciousConsequenceToolsDestructionAbuseEnvironmentalHuman RightsAvailableAccessElitesCatastropheEducation SystemCoordinatesOrdinary CitizensAccess To InformationEscalatingEnvironmental Destruction Author:David Bornstein
“Every farmer must go to the seed industry every year to buy their seed and pay an 80 percent royalty to a corporation. Over-the-fence exchanges have started to be treated as crimes. Or, if you need a biological pest control, you can no longer use the need seed in your back yard. Instead you have to depend on the Grace Corporation or some other entity. That kind of dependency basically leads to increased poverty and increased ecological destruction.” IfsNeedsYearsKindUsePayPovertyGraceCrimeDependsIndustryPercentDestructionSeedsTreatedCorporationsFarmersEntityYardsFenceRoyaltyEcologicalDependencyPestsPest Control Author:Vandana Shiva
“We have weapons of mass destruction we have to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Unemployment is a weapon of mass destruction.” HomePovertyEconomyHealthWeaponsMassEconomicsDestructionAddressesUnemploymentHomelessnessWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass Destruction Author:Dennis Kucinich
“For Ragamuffins, God's name is Mercy. We see our darkness as a prized possession because it drives us into the heart of God. Without mercy our darkness would plunge us into despair - for some, self-destruction. Time alone with God reveals the unfathomable depths of the poverty of the spirit. We are so poor that even our poverty is not our own: It belongs to the mysterium tremendum of a loving God.” HeartSelfSpiritNamesPoorPovertyDarknessDespairDestructionMercyDepthPossessionLoving GodPlungeSelf DestructionUnfathomableAlone TimeAlone With GodPrized Possessions Author:Brennan Manning
“Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction, homelessness, a weapon of mass destruction... racism, a weapon of mass destruction, fear, a weapon of mass destruction. We must disarm these weapons and renew our commitment to quality public schools and dedicated teachers and good housing and quality health care and decent jobs and stronger neighborhoods.” CareSchoolJobsQualityPovertyTeacherTeachingHealthWeaponsMassRacismCommitmentDestructionStrongerHealth CareDecentNeighborhoodDedicatedJoblessnessHousingPublic SchoolHomelessnessWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionQuality Health Care Author:Dennis Kucinich
“Because there is global insecurity, nations are engaged in a mad arms race, spending billions of dollars wastefully on instruments of destruction, when millions are starving. And yet, just a fraction of what is expended so obscenely on defense budgets would make the difference in enabling God's children to fill their stomachs, be educated, and given the chance to lead fulfilled and happy lives.” ChildrenRealGivenNationsDifferencesChanceRacePovertyMillionsArmsDestructionInstrumentsMadDollarsEducationalSpendingDefenseBillionsEducatedBudgetsEngagedInsecurityHappy LifeFulfilledStarvingFractionsEnablingEnding PovertyArms RaceRoot CauseWorld PovertyHunger And PovertyHunger PovertyCauses Of PovertyGlobal Poverty Author:Desmond Tutu
“Hunger is actually the worst weapon of mass destruction. It claims millions of victims each year.” YearsPovertyMillionsWorstWeaponsMassDestructionClaimsVictimHungerWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionWorld HungerHunger And PovertyHunger Poverty Author:Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
“Something is wrong. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, crime, torture, corruption and the ice capades. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed. This is not what you expect to find on the resume of a supreme being. It's what you expect from an office temp with a bad attitude.” IfsWarReligionCan DoAttitudePovertyAtheismCrimeOfficeDiseaseDestructionHungerCorruptionSupremeIceTortureImpressedResumesFilthSupreme BeingBad AttitudeNot ImpressedBest God Author:George Carlin
“We are close to a time when all of humankind will envision a global agenda that encompasses a kind of Global Marshall Plan to address the causes of poverty and suffering and environmental destruction all over the earth.” KindEarthSufferingCausesPovertyPlansDestructionEnvironmentalClimate ChangeAddressesAgendasHumankindEugenicsEnviromentalCauses Of PovertyEnviromentEnvironmental DestructionMarshall Plan Author:Al Gore
“The peoples of many countries are being taxed to the point of poverty and starvation in order to enable Governments to engage in a mad race in armament which, if permitted to continue, may well result in war. This grave menace to the peace of the world is due in no small measure to the uncontrolled activities of the manufacturers and merchants of engines of destruction, and it it must be met by the concerted actions of the peoples of all Nations.” WorldCountryGovernmentActionNationsRacePovertyMetsActivityDestructionMadDuesGravesEnginesStarvationMerchantsMenaceArmament Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Hunger is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor health care is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor education is a weapon of mass destruction. Discrimination is a weapon of mass destruction. Let us abolish such weapons of mass destruction here at home.” HomeCareWorkPoorPovertyWeaponsMassRacismDestructionHungerDiscriminationHealth CareJoblessnessWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionAbolishPoor HealthPoor Education Author:Dennis Kucinich
“The problems we face today, violent conflicts, destruction of nature, poverty, hunger, and so on, are human-created problems which can be resolved through human effort, understanding and the development of a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood. We need to cultivate a universal responsibility for one another and the planet we share.” NeedsHumansGodProblemTodayFacesSpiritualityPeaceUnderstandingEffortResponsibilityPovertySharePlanetsDevelopmentConflictDestructionUniversalHungerViolentBrotherhoodSisterhoodSense Of ResponsibilityEnding PovertyRoot CauseHunger PovertyDestruction Of Nature Author:Dalai Lama
“We cannot confront the massive challenges of poverty, hunger, disease and environmental destruction unless we address issues of population and reproductive health” ChallengesPovertyIssuesDiseaseDestructionEnvironmentalHungerPopulationAddressesMassiveReproductive HealthEnvironmental Destruction Author:Thoraya Obaid
“Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride.” PeopleTwoCausesFearPovertyPrideDestructionSeekingDestroyedArroganceTwo ThingsIslamicSuperiorityConceitWise Man Once SaidHubrisIslamic WisdomCaliphsHaughtiness Author:Ali ibn Abi Talib
“Look at what realists have done for us. They have led us to war and climate change, poverty on an unimaginable scale, and wholesale ecological destruction. Half of humanity goes to bed hungry because of all the realistic leaders in the world. I tell people who call me 'unrealistic' to show me what their realism has done. Realism is an outdated, overplayed and wholly exaggerated concept.” PeopleWorldLooksWarDoneShowsProblemHumanityPoorHalfLeaderPovertyBedConceptsDestructionClimateClimate ChangeHungerScalesHungryCall MeRealisticRealismEcologyShow MeEcologicalRealistExaggeratedUnimaginableOutdatedWholesaleCauses Of Poverty Author:Satish Kumar
“The extermination of millions of unborn children, in the name of the fight against poverty, actually constitutes the destruction of the poorest of all human beings.” HumansChildrenFightingNamesHuman BeingsPovertyMillionsDestructionPoorestUnbornExterminationUnborn Child Book:The Garden of God Source: The Garden of God
“Many problems that confront us today are created by man, whether they are violent conflicts, destruction of the environment, poverty or hunger. These problems can be resolved thanks to human efforts by understanding that we are brother and sister and by developing this sense of closeness. We must cultivate a universal responsibility toward each other and extend it to the planet that we have to share.” MenHumansProblemTodayUnderstandingEffortResponsibilityPovertyEnvironmentSharePlanetsBrotherConflictDestructionUniversalHungerViolentThanksDevelopingBrothers And SistersCloseness Author:Dalai Lama
“A united humanity will be able to confront the many troubling problems of the present time: from the menace of terrorism to the humiliating poverty in which millions of human beings live, from the proliferation of weapons to the pandemics and the environmental destruction which threatens the future of our planet.” HumansProblemAbleHumanityReligiousHuman BeingsUnitedPovertyMillionsPlanetsWeaponsDestructionEnvironmentalTerrorismNuclear WeaponsOur PlanetMenaceHumiliatingPresent TimeProliferationPandemicsEnvironmental Destruction Author:Pope Benedict XVI
“Think about this: terrorism, epidemics, poverty, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction-all challenges that know no borders-the reality is that climate change ranks right up there with every single one of them.” ThinkingKnowsRealityChallengesPovertyWeaponsMassDestructionClimateClimate ChangeTerrorismBordersWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionEpidemicsProliferation Author:John F. Kerry