“We do not hear the term compassionate applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in their normal work. Yet in terms of results in the measurable form of jobs created, lives enriched, communities built, living standards raised, and poverty healed, a handful of capitalists has done infinitely more for mankind than all the self-serving politicians, academics, social workers, and religionists who march under the banner of compassion.” SelfDoneJobsFormSocialTermCommunityResultsCompassionPovertyMankindPoliticianNormalStandardsBuiltEntrepreneurRaisedWorkersEngagedExecutivesMarchServingCompassionateCapitalistHandfulHealedBannerSocial WorkerSelf Serving Author:Nathaniel Branden
“To politicians, solved problems represent a dire threat - of unemployment and poverty. That's why no problem ever tackled by the government has ever been solved. What they want is lots of problems they can promise to solve, so that we'll keep electing them - or letting them keep their jobs in a bureaucracy metastasizing like cancer.” WantProblemGovernmentJobsPovertyPoliticianPromiseThreatCancerSolveUnemploymentBureaucracyNo ProblemSolved Problems Author:L. Neil Smith
“Political systems must love poverty-they produce so much of it. Poor people make easier targets for a demagogue. No Mao or even Jiang Zemin is likely to arise on the New York Stock Exchange floor. And politicians in democracies benefit from destitution, too. The US has had a broad range of poverty programs for 30 years. Those programs have failed. Millions of people are still poor. And those people vote for politicians who favor keeping the poverty programs in place. There's a conspiracy theory in there somewhere.” PeopleYearsStillsPoliticalPoorPovertyMillionsDemocracyNew YorkProduceTheoryPoliticianEasierBenefitsProgramVoteFavorsAriseRangeTargetBroadsConspiracyPoor PeoplePolitical SystemsConspiracy TheoryMaoStock ExchangeNew York StockNew York Stock Exchange Book:Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics Source: Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics
“Ask every politician and leader: What are your plans to end poverty? What are your plans to protect the climate? What are your plans to eliminate nuclear weapons? To answer these correctly is to bring love into action.” EndsActionAsksAnswersLeaderPovertyPlansPoliticianProtectWeaponsClimateNuclearNuclear Weapons Author:Jonathan Granoff
“What we face in Canada are multiple overlapping crises. We have the climate crisis, which is screaming down on us - all of the predictions are coming true even faster than the scientists thought. We have the inequality crisis, where the Panama Papers are a great reminder that the one per cent have actually created their own economy. We still have the crisis of child poverty, which has never been dealt with despite decades of concerned words from politicians.” ChildrenPovertyEconomyPoliticianConcernedScientistCrisisInequalityMultiple Author:Avi Lewis
“To really tackle poverty, politicians, activists, academics will all have to think outside their boxes, will have to start developing much more integrated approaches to these problems. And a large part of this will involve working out ways to push for living wages. Partly this will involve re-empowering the union movement, which has been massively weakened in recent decades. Partly it will involve a willingness to restructure tax codes to penalize companies that don't provide basic benefits and decent wages to employees.” ThinkingProblemPovertyPoliticianTaxesWork OutCodeDecentEmployeeWillingnessActivistIntegrated Author:Sasha Abramsky
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” MenInspirationalFeelsDoeFearInspiringEmotionPovertyCourageGreatnessPoliticianOvercomingBraveryIndependentBraveAbsenceConquerTriumphOver ItCourageousNot AfraidJustificationBe BraveNo FearOvercoming FearHave CourageBeing AfraidFear NotApartheidBrave ManTriumphantBe CourageousFamous InspirationalHave No FearDo Not FearGreatest FearFear And CourageInspirational MilitaryFace Your FearsFear CourageBravery And CourageLove And FearFears Of LifeCourage StrengthFacing FearConquering FearLong Walk To FreedomInspirational CourageBravery And FearDoubt And FearTrue CourageYour AbsenceConquer Your FearsEducation And FreedomShort CourageBe Strong And CourageousBravery And StrengthFear No ManFunny CourageFeel The Fear And Do It AnywayHope CourageTriumph Over AdversityBrave And StrongBrave Face Book:Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom Source: Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom
“If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.” IfsWantWarPeaceFriendshipLeadershipWorkInspiringEnemyPovertyBecomingPoliticianPartnersPartnershipSouth AfricaNot Giving UpMaking PeacePeace WarPeace And HappinessPeace JusticeMake Peace Not WarAchieving PeaceInternational PeaceLove Your EnemiesLong Walk To FreedomWorld Peace DayInternational Peace DayEducation And FreedomBringing PeacePartneringCalm And Peace Author:Nelson Mandela
“I am a huge admirer of Franklin Roosevelt's, and I believe social security has done untold good in alleviating the once-widespread issue of poverty among the elderly. FDR believed in the greatness and generosity of Americans - but he was also a cold-blooded politician.” BelieveDoneI BelieveSocialPovertyIssuesSecurityGreatnessHugeColdPoliticianGenerositySocial SecurityElderlyFranklinAdmirerCold Blooded Author:Jon Meacham
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.” GivingLittlesEnoughPresidentPoorMoneyPovertyHistoryRichProgressPoliticianTestsAddCharityProsperityInequalityPresidentialAbundanceMore MoneyPhilanthropyMinimum WageSocial ProgressEnding PovertyWorld HungerUs PresidentEconomic InequalityPresidents DayWords Of KindnessWorld PovertyEconomic SecurityUs PresidentialEnding HungerGlobal PovertyEconomic EqualityProgress In LifeWealth And Poverty Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt
“I'm not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other.” PeopleWantHelpingSufferingCommunityPovertyPolitician Author:Russell Simmons