“Our status as a land of equal opportunity has made us a rich and powerful nation, but it has also transformed lives. It has given people like me the chance to grow up knowing that no dream was too big and no goal out of reach.” PeopleMadeDreamBigsOpportunityGivenNationsGrowsGoalChancePowerfulPovertyGrowing UpKnowingRichLandEqualLike MeTransformedEqual Opportunity Book:American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone Source: American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone
“...If peace were the goal of today's intellectuals, a failure of that magnitude -- and the evidence of unspeakable suffering on so large a scale -- would make them pause and check their statist premises. Instead, blind to everything but their hatred for capitalism, they are now asserting that 'poverty breeds wars' ... But the question is: What breeds poverty? If you look a the world of today and if you look back at history, you will see the answer: the degree of a country's freedom is the degree of its prosperity.” IfsWorldLooksWarCountryTodaySufferingGoalAnswersPovertyDegreesEvidenceCapitalismHatredBlindProsperityScalesChecksPausesPremisesMagnitudeUnspeakable Author:Ayn Rand
“Poverty, we may say, surrounds a man with ready-made barriers, which if they do mournfully gall and hamper, do at least prescribe for him, and force on him, a sort of course and goal; a safe and beaten, though a circuitous, course. A great part of his guidance is secure against fatal error, is withdrawn from his control. The rich, again, has his whole life to guide, without goal or barrier, save of his own choosing, and, tempted, is too likely to guide it ill.” IfsMenLifeMayMadeWholeCoursesForceGoalPovertyRichReadySafeErrorsIllGuidesWhole LifeSecureGuidanceBarriersSurroundBeatenTemptedHamper Book:The Works of Thomas Carlyle Source: The Works of Thomas Carlyle
“The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.” WarCountryHelpingGoalPovertyDiseaseCuresRefugeeLoftyStop WarLofty Goals Author:Ted Turner
“Government programs aim at getting money for poor people. Our hope was that knowledge would in the long run be more useful, provide more money, and eventually strike at the system-causes of poverty. Government believes that poverty is just a lack of money. We felt, and continue to feel, that poverty is actually a lack of skill, and a lack of the self-esteem that comes with being able to take some part of one's life into one's own hands and work with others towards shared-call them social-goals.” PeopleFeelsBelieveLongSelfHandsGovernmentRunningAbleSocialFeltCausesGoalPoorPovertySelf EsteemSkillsProgramAimStrikesEsteemMore MoneyLong RunsPoor PeopleGet MoneyGovernment ProgramsCauses Of Poverty Author:Karl Hess