“When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.” SelfAnswersBehindsPovertyDareEcstaticLove Dare Author:Anne Carson
“People minus space equals Poverty ... What is living for? If the answer is a life of dignity, decency and opportunity, then every increase in population means a decrease in all three. The crowd is a threat to every single being.” PeopleIfsMeanThreeOpportunityGrowthSpaceAnswersPovertyDignityIncreaseThreatPopulationCrowdsDecencyDecreaseMinusPopulation Growth Author:Marya Mannes
“...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
“In this fight I want to show people who are in poverty, downtrodden or denied that you can succeed. I want my performance to be an inspiration to people. You have to stay in the moment and keep moving ahead. I just want to show everyone that you can find answers to your problems and afflictions with hard work and perseverance.” PeopleWantHardMomentsShowsProblemInspirationMovingFightingAnswersPovertyHard WorkSucceedPerformancesPerseveranceDeniedAfflictionKeep MovingMoving AheadDowntrodden Author:Tavoris Cloud
“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” IfsWayNeedsSelfChoicesAnswersGriefPovertyIgnoranceKeysShameObviousUnhappyPityBetter WaysSelf PityWallowing Author:Og Mandino
“I didn't want to hear the usual answers about what's wrong because I believe these are symptoms: global warming, genocide, hunger, poverty, war, environmental crisis. If we can identify the root cause, we can change our ways.” IfsWayWantBelieveWarI BelieveCausesAnswersPovertyRootsCrisisEnvironmentalHungerGlobal WarmingGenocideUsualSymptomsRoot CauseEnvironmental CrisisHunger Poverty Author:Tom Shadyac
“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
“When I am asked, "What, in your view, is the worst human rights problem in the world today?" I reply: "Absolute poverty." This is not the answer most journalists expect. It is neither sexy nor legalistic. But it is true.” WorldHumansProblemTodayAnswersViewsPovertyRightsWorstAbsolutesHuman RightsSexyJournalistWorld Today Author:Mary Robinson