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“I think we start suffering as soon as we come out of the womb. I think that people tend to stereotype. When they think of suffering, they think of abuse - physical abuse, emotional abuse, poverty, that kind of thing. There's different levels of suffering. I don't think that it has to do with how much money you have - if you were raised in the ghetto or the Hamptons. For me it's more about perception: self-perception and how you perceive the world.”

“If a market exists for low-paid work, then we should think about how we can make this type of work more attractive by providing government assistance. Of course, the wage-earner must be able to live off of his wages. We will not allow poverty wages or dumping wages. But the wage earner can receive a combined wage that includes both his actual wages and a government subsidy.”

Ifs Thinking Should Government Able Courses Poverty Type Lows Paid Attractive Providing Wages Assistance Subsidies Government Assistance

Author:Angela Merkel

“Women are more focused on the development of the quality of life in their countries. They are more involved in social and family policies, childcare, and poverty reduction.”

Country Social Quality Poverty Policy Development Involved Focused Quality Of Life Reduction Childcare Poverty Reduction

Author:Dalia Grybauskaite

“The human spirit is extraordinary. If we give the 3 billion people who live in poverty the opportunity to change their lives, they will. For too long, we've looked at needing to "save" these people - with an emphasis on "these people" - rather than removing the constraints keeping them from solving their own problems.”

People Ifs Giving Humans Long Problem Spirit Opportunity Poverty Extraordinary Billions Emphasis Human Spirit Constraints Opportunity To Change

Author:Jacqueline Novogratz

“When the kids see the poverty in their neighborhood, but they see these successful kids who come from the countries they come from, come from Mexico, come from Korea, come from the Philippines, come from Salvador, and were doing really well, it motivates them to do better. The former students give them a vision of what's possible.”

Giving Wells Country Kids Vision Poverty Successful Students Former Neighborhood Mexico Korea Philippines Former Students

Author:Rafe Esquith

“I think you have to humble yourself before the process of starting and running a business. Only the incredibly fortunate achieve their success quickly. Most people, it takes many many years of incredible hard work, and many periods of severe poverty, and it kind of makes it all the better.”

People Thinking Years Kind Hard Running Process Poverty Achieve Hard Work Periods Incredibles Starting Humble Fortunate Severe Humble Yourself Running A Business

Author:Patrick Grant

“Imagine you waking up tomorrow and you can't get a bank account; you can't get a credit union account. Everything has gone away and you're now living in poverty.”

Poverty Gone Imagine Tomorrow Accounts Wake Up Unions Credit Waking Bank Accounts Gone Away Credit Unions

Author:Suze Orman

“If you're in poverty and all you have is a debit card or a prepaid card or you pay in cash, it does not report to a credit bureau. If it doesn't report to a credit bureau, it cannot create a credit score for yourself.”

Ifs Doe Pay Poverty Credit Cards Reports Score Cash Debit Debit Cards Credit Scores

Author:Suze Orman

“Martin Luther King was talking about racism, war and poverty. I think we have made progress enormous progress in racism and war, but we have made little or no progress in poverty. And it's because the economy has gotten more and more complex as we have globalized.”

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Author:Andrew Young

“I think the money for the solutions for global poverty is on Wall Street. Wall Street allocates capital. And we need to get capital to the ideas that are successful, whether it's microfinance, whether it's through financial literacy programs, Wall Street can be the engine that makes capital get to the people who need it.”

People Thinking Needs Ideas Poverty Successful Streets Wall Solutions Program Financial Engines Literacy Financial Literacy Global Poverty Microfinance

Author:Kabir Sehgal

“Those who are driven by poverty, those who're free from material worries hunger exhausting labor a joyless existence ask the same question, the question of meaning.”

Asks Existence Poverty Worry Materials Labor Hunger Driven Exhausting

Author:Kathy Acker

“Choice! The key is choice. You have options. You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame, and self-pity. But hold on! If this is true then why have so many among us apparently elected to live in this manner? The answer is obvious. Those who live in unhappy failure have never exercised their options for a better way of life because they have never been aware that had any choices”

Ifs Way Needs Self Choices Answers Grief Poverty Ignorance Keys Shame Obvious Unhappy Pity Better Ways Self Pity Wallowing

Author:Og Mandino

“I am a sensitive person, so it is actually saddening to learn that these poverty-stricken families are most of the time mistreated or looked down upon. Help the poor, like how you would want to be helped if you were in their position.”

Ifs Want Persons Helping Poor Poverty Position Sensitive Help The Poor Mistreated Sensitive Person Saddening

Author:Hillary Clinton

“It is true that prosperity has many close friends; poverty, on the other hand, has only distant watchers!”

Hands Poverty Prosperity Close Friends Watchers

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Poverty is a mathematical proof of the fact that mankind is a big failure!”

Facts Bigs Poverty Mankind Proof Mathematical Mathematical Proof

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Poverty is a scorpion; it stings the poor and it also stings the men with high conscience who feel sad about the poverty; the rest is immune to it!”

Men Feels Poor Poverty He Man Conscience Immune Scorpions

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Nowadays, by contrast, Christianity specialises in soft-focus mood music; its threats of hell, its demand for poverty and chastity, its doctrine that only the few will be saved and the many damned, have been shed, replaced by strummed guitars and saccharine smiles. It has reinvented itself so often, and with such breathtaking hypocrisy, in the interests of retaining its hold on the gullible, that a medieval monk who woke today, like Woody Allen's Sleeper, would not be able to recognise the faith that bears the same name as his own.”

“If all people learned to think in the non Aristotelian manner of quantum mechanics, the world would change so radically that most of what we call "stupidity" and even a great deal of what we consider "insanity" might disappear, and the "intractable" problems of war, poverty and injustice would suddenly seem a great deal closer to solution.”

People Ifs Thinking World War Problem Seems Might Deals Poverty Solutions Injustice Stupidity Disappear Insanity Quantum Mechanic Quantum Mechanics

Author:Alfred Korzybski

“What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.”

Ends Done Poverty Extremes Venezuela Extreme Poverty Chavez

Author:Oliver Stone

“I remember the first check I got for 'The Office,' and it made me feel sad. It ruined it. ... Because there was sort of a nobility in poverty.”

Feels Firsts Made Remember Poverty Office Checks Ruined Nobility

Author:Ricky Gervais

“Poverty makes people sub-human Excess of wealth makes people inhuman”

People Humans Wealth Poverty Excess Inhuman

Author:Groucho Marx

“We cannot feast on global resources while the world's poor struggle to survive on inhospitable lands. It is as simple as that. It is the rich who are making the world poorer. Environment and Poverty are one crisis, not two.”

World Two Simple Poor Poverty Struggle Rich Environment Land Resources Crisis

Author:Petra Kelly

“Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful - and hence neither good nor bad.”

Happens Pain Wealth Pleasure Poverty Noble Life And Death Success In Life Good And Bad Success And Failure Shameful Pain And Pleasure Wealth And Poverty

Book:Meditations: A New Translation

Source: Meditations: A New Translation

“Mankind's survival is dependent on man's ability to solve the problems of racial injustice, poverty, and war; the solution of these problems is in turn dependent upon man's squaring his moral progress with his scientific progress, and learning the practical art of living in harmony.”

Men Art War Problem Turns Ability Moral Poverty Progress Mankind Survival Solutions Harmony Injustice Solve Practicals Dependent Art Of Living Scientific Progress

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The best way to help the poor is to make them uncomfortable in their own poverty.”

Way Helping Poor Poverty Best Way Uncomfortable Help The Poor

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“There have been poverty, pestilence, and famine, which were due to man's inadequate mastery of nature. There have been wars, oppressions and tortures which have been due to men's hostility to their fellow men.”

Men Has Beens War Poverty Fellows Dues Oppression Torture Mastery Fellow Man Hostility Inadequate Famine Pestilence

Book:Bertrand Russell's Best

Source: Bertrand Russell's Best

“The Economic Problem...the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle, a transitory and unnecessary muddle.”

Want Problem Nations Class Poverty Struggle Economic Unnecessary Transitory Muddle Economic Problems

Author:John Maynard Keynes

“When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.”

Long Ends Government Lasts Poverty Degrees Luxury Republic Monarchy Insensible

Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“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.”

“Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty.”

People Poverty Perdition Redistribution Of Wealth

Book:All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty

Source: All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty

“For, when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications and the beginnings of hunger, but you also discover the great redeeming feature of poverty: the fact that it annihilates the future. Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.”

Mean Facts Certain Poverty Worry Limits Discovery Hunger Features Boredom Complication Redeeming

Book:Down and Out in Paris and London

Source: Down and Out in Paris and London

“There are no riches like the sweetness of content, nor poverty comparable to the want of patience.”

Want Poverty Riches Sweetness

Author:Roger Chamberlain

“The Labor roots are very strong.Paul Keating, made a comment several years ago about looking at that dragging yourself out of poverty, dragging yourself out of that situation.”

Years Made Strong Situation Poverty Years Ago Labor Roots Comment Very Strong

Author:Warren Mundine

“It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.”

“I've said that, that I've felt like as Christians and particularly even as Republicans, we needed to address issues that touched the broader perspective, and that included disease, hunger, poverty, homelessness, the environment.”

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Author:Mike Huckabee

“So when we're really addressing issues like poverty, you can't do that without addressing the real driver of some of those, which is stable homes, families. So that's why to me those issues are important. They're not frivolous. They're critical economic issues.”

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Author:Mike Huckabee

“In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.”

Believe Country Wealth Poverty Virtue Talent Produce Highest Vices Advancement

Author:Denis Diderot

“I lived below the official American poverty line until I was 31.”

Lines Poverty Officials American Poverty

Author:Dustin Hoffman

“Poverty is not dated. Homeless people have looked the same since the thirteenth century. Go back to the times of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Look at photographs. It's amazing. The face on a homeless person is timeless.”

People Looks Persons Faces Poverty Century Photograph Timeless Homeless Homeless People Dostoyevsky

Author:Dustin Hoffman

“I charge [my sons] never to let the motives of private interest or ambition to influence them to betray, nor the terrors of poverty and disgrace, or the fear of danger or of death deter them from asserting the liberty of their country, and endeavoring to transmit to their posterity those sacred rights to which themselves were born”

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Author:George Mason

“I can't help but react to the painful realities of the two-tiered society we live in, where the signs of poverty and inequity are everywhere. Almost twenty five percent of our children live at or below the poverty line. We expect the no-option life cycle of the poor to be interrupted by the weak social safety net and then wonder why building more jails doesn't solve the problems.”

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Author:Peter Yarrow

“I've learned so much through life. Starting off in Asia, the cultures, the people you meet, the poverty you see. It's been a great education for me, and I've loved every minute of it.”

People Culture Poverty Minutes Starting I've Learned Asia Great Education

Author:Vijay Singh

“When it comes to poverty, there is no need to say anything. All we need to do is to help, the moment we encounter it.”

Needs Moments Helping Poverty Encounters Say Anything

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime.”

Country Poverty Crime Misfortunes Other Countries

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Poverty has strange bedfellows.”

Poverty Strange Bedfellows Strange Bedfellows

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.”

Wisdom Poverty Capable Endure Being Free

Author:Victor Hugo

“Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, imprisonment, psychosurgery, social ostracism, and extreme poverty.”

Has Beens Social Poverty Cost Extremes Torture Imprisonment Heterosexuality Extreme Poverty Ostracism Heterosexuality Is Social Ostracism

Book:Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985

Source: Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985

“For avarice begins where poverty ends.”

Ends Poverty Avarice Avarice Greed

Author:Honore de Balzac

“We suffer from a terrible poverty of civic discourse in this country. Surely, it is outside of America's best traditions to send the signal that patriotism is mindless emotion, that leadership is avoiding saying tough things, that citizenship is toeing the line. But such is the result of a lack of openness, our nervousness with debate.”

Country America Suffering Lines Results Emotion Poverty Terrible Tough Tradition Debate Openness Citizenship Avoiding Discourse Signals Civics Mindless Nervousness Tough Things

Author:Geneva Overholser

“Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.”

People Turns Poverty Disease Cures Lifts Unrest Social Unrest

Author:Stephen Hawking

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