“There are no causes of poverty. It is the rest state, that which happens when you don't do anything. If you want to experience poverty, just do nothing, and it will come…. We should ask what are the causes of wealth and try to recreate and reproduce them.” IfsWantShouldTryingStatesHappensAsksCausesWealthPovertyCauses Of Poverty Author:Madsen Pirie
“There are no causes of poverty. To ask what causes poverty is like asking what causes coldit is the absence of energy. Similarly poverty is the absence of wealth. We should ask, ‘what are the causes of wealth?’” ShouldAsksEnergyCausesWealthPovertyAskingAbsenceCauses Of Poverty Author:Madsen Pirie
“Don't ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He's too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue.” WorldAsksSpacePovertyFindingsBusyCancerWeatherCuresToo BusyFixingParkingBarbecueWorld PovertyParking Space Author:Richard Dawkins
“Don't Latin Americans have the right to ask why their elected governments are being opposed and coup leaders supported?.. Poverty and hardship in large parts of Africa are preventing this from happening. Don't they have the right to ask why their enormous wealth - including minerals - is being looted, despite the fact that they need it more than others?” NeedsFactsGovernmentAsksWealthLeaderPovertyHappeningsIncludingEnormousDespiteHardshipLatinLatin AmericaPreventingMineralsCoupsLatin American Author:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
“Holiness consists in doing God’s will joyfully. Faithfulness makes saints. The spiritual life is a union with Jesus: the divine and the human giving themselves to each other. The only thing Jesus asks of us is to give ourselves to him, in total poverty and total self-forgetfulness.” GivingHumansSelfSpiritualLife IsAsksJesusPovertyDivineUnionsSaintGods WillHolinessSpiritual LifeFaithfulnessForgetfulnessSelf Forgetfulness Author:Mother Teresa
“Notwithstanding the poverty of my outside experience, I have always had a significance for myself, and every chance to stumle along my straight and narrow little path, and to worship at the feet of my Deity, and what more can a human soul ask for?” HumansLittlesSoulAsksChancePovertyPathFeetWorshipSignificanceDeitiesHuman Soul Author:Alice James
“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.” AsksExistencePovertyWorryMaterialsLaborHungerDrivenExhausting Author:Kathy Acker
“We need to ask the moral questions: Do I have a right to be rich? And do I have a right to be content living in a world with so much poverty and inequality? These questions motivate us to view the issue of inequality as central to human living.” WorldNeedsHumansAsksViewsMoralPovertyIssuesRichInequality Author:Amartya Sen
“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 you introduce these tools into the community, they can be adopted and implemented at the local level - and the results have been powerful. We have to ask the questions, how do people survive in poverty and other challenges of traumatic childhoods? And, until we fix this underlying problems, how do we help people in the meantime?” PeopleHas BeensHelpingProblemAsksCommunityChallengesLevelsResultsPowerfulPovertyChildhoodToolsLocalsIntroducingAdopted Author:James Redford
“Depending on where you live, your threat is much different from the other person. If you ask a New Yorker today, because of the way the press plays it, he will say terrorism is his biggest fear. But for somebody living on a small island state, then it is climate change, the rise of the sea level, for his whole island may be washed away. If I go to southern Africa, they tell me it is HIV/AIDS and somewhere in Asia it is poverty. This is also why you will find it difficult to find agreements, because if you want someone to be concerned about your threat, then you should be concerned about his.” IfsWayWantShouldMayPersonsDifferentStatesPlayWholeTodayAsksDifficultLevelsPovertySeaConcernedPressesThreatClimateClimate ChangeTerrorismAidsIslandsAgreementSouthernAsiaHivNew YorkersLiving OnHiv AidsWhere You LiveBiggest FearSouthern Africa Author:Kofi Annan
“Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.” LittlesShowsSuccessCertainAsksRealizingMoneyPovertyFocusAchievementAmbitionEncouragementGreedBucksWagonsGreatest LeadershipLeaders MotivationalTrue Potential Author:Barack Obama
“But ask yourself this Eragon: If gods exist, have they been good custodians of alagaesia? Death, sickness, poverty, tyranny and countless other miseries stalk the land. If this is the handiwork of divine beings, then they are to be rebelled against and overthrown, not given obeisance, obedience, and reverance.” IfsAsksGivenPovertyLandDivineMiseryTyrannyObedienceSicknessStalkingGod ExistsEragonCustodiansHandiwork Author:Christopher Paolini
“Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.” LittlesShowsPurposeAsksWealthMoneyPovertyFocusAmbitionMaking MoneyBucksLittle MoneyMakin Money Author:Barack Obama
“When evening comes, I return home and go into my study. On the threshold I strip off my muddy, sweaty clothes of everyday, and put on the robes of court and palace, and in this graver dress I enter the antique courts of the ancients and am welcomed by them, and there I taste the food that alone is mine, and for which I was born. And there I make bold to speak to them and ask the motives of their actions, and they, in their humanity, reply to me. And for the space of four hours I forget the world, remember no vexation, fear poverty no more, tremble no more at death; I pass indeed into their world.” WorldHomeActionRememberHumanityAsksSpeakBornHoursSpaceForgetPovertyStudyFourMinesReturnTasteClothesDressesCourtEveningMotivePalacesThresholdRobesAntiquesMuddyVexationForget The World Author:Niccolo Machiavelli
“Indeed, ask every man separately whether he thinks it laudable and worthy of a man of this age to hold a position from which he receives a salary disproportionate to his work; to take from the people--often in poverty--taxes to be spent on constructing cannon, torpedoes, and other instruments of butchery, so as to make war on people with whom we wish to be at peace, and who feel the same wish in regard to us; or to receive a salary for devoting one's whole life to constructing these instruments of butchery, or to preparing oneself and others for the work of murder.” PeopleThinkingMenFeelsWarWholeAgeAsksWishPovertyPositionTaxesMurderRegardInstrumentsOneselfWorthyWhole LifeEvery ManPreparingSalaryCannonsButcheryTorpedoes Author:Leo Tolstoy
“Hungry for love, He looks at you. Thirsty for kindness, He begs of you. Naked for loyalty, He hopes in you. Homeless for shelter in your heart, He asks of you. Will you be that one to Him?” LooksHeartAsksJesusPovertyKindnessLoyaltyHungryNakedShelterHomelessThirstyHungry For Love Book:No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition Source: No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition
“On the one hand we have got to ask, are there some areas of universal benefits that are no longer affordable? But on the other hand let us look at the issue of dependency where we have trapped people in poverty through the extent of welfare that they have.” PeopleLooksHandsAsksPovertyIssuesBenefitsAreasUniversalWelfareTrappedAffordableDependency Author:David Cameron
“Royce Westmoreland stared at him with biting scorn. "I despise hypocrisy, particularly when it is coated with holiness." "May I ask for a specific example?" "Fat priests," Royce replied, "with fat purses, who lecture staving peasants on the dangers of gluttony and the merits of poverty.” MayAsksPovertyDangerExampleFatsMeritHolinessHypocrisyPriestsDespiseScornLecturesPeasantsPursesBitingGluttony Book:A Kingdom of Dreams Source: A Kingdom of Dreams