“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
“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
“There is evil poured upon the earth from the overflowings of corruption-- Sickness, and poverty, and pain, and guilt, and madness, and sorrow; But, as the water from a fountain riseth and sinketh to its level, Ceaselessly toileth justice to equalize the lots of men.” MenEarthPainEvilWaterJusticeLevelsPovertySorrowMadnessGuiltCorruptionSicknessFountain Author:William Hazlitt
“Poverty has a home in Africalike a quiet second skin.It may be the only place on earth where it is worn with unconscious dignity.” MayHomeEarthPovertyQuietDignitySkinsUnconsciousWorn Author:Bessie Head
“Lord God, I thank Thee that Thou hast been pleased to make me a poor and indigent man upon earth. I have neither house nor land nor money, to leave behind me. Thou hast given me wife and children, whom I now restore to Thee. Lord, nourish, teach, and preserve them as Thou hast me.” MenChildrenEarthHouseGivenPoorBehindsLordPovertyTeachWifeLandTheePreservesLord God Author:Martin Luther