“India is a land of plenty inhibited by poverty; India has an enthralling, uplifting civilization that sparkles not only in our magnificent art, but also in the enormous creativity and humanity of our daily life in city and village.” ArtHumanityCitiesPovertyCreativityLandCivilizationIndiaEnormousPlentyUpliftingDaily LifeVillageMagnificentSparkle Author:Pranab Mukherjee
“Most of us still believe in the intrinsic value of nature, but I think the first century of the environmental/conservation movement demonstrated pretty clearly that this value cannot compel a civilization-wide shift toward sustainable behavior and enterprise when stacked up against the urgent economic and social needs of 7 billion people, most of whom are struggling to get out of poverty.” PeopleThinkingNeedsFirstsBelieveStillsValuesSocialPovertyStruggleEconomicCenturyMovementCivilizationBehaviorEnvironmentalWideBillionsEnterpriseConservationUrgentIntrinsic Value Author:Edward Norton
“what about Christianity? Are we right in the face of so long a record of its poverty in international achievement, to keep invoking it as a standard, almost synonymous with civilization?” LongFacesChristianityPovertyRecordsCivilizationAchievementStandardsInternational Author:Rose Macaulay
“The right of individual property is no doubt the very corner-stone of civilization, as hitherto understood; but I am a little impatient of being told that property is entitled to exceptional consideration because it bears all the burdens of the state. It bears those, indeed, which can be most easily borne, but poverty pays with its person the chief expenses of war, pestilence, and famine.” LittlesPersonsWarStatesIndividualPayPovertyDoubtBearsCivilizationUnderstoodStonesPropertyPossessionBurdenCornersChiefsNo DoubtConsiderationExpensesEntitledExceptionalImpatientFaminePestilence Book:Essays, English and American Source: Essays, English and American
“Prosperity is an essential partner in civilization itself. It is the basis of leisure, charity, and a hopeful outlook on life. It is the means for conquering poverty at the lowest rung of society, the basis on which children and the elderly are cared for, the foundation for the cultivation of arts and learning. Crush an economy and you crush civilization.” MeanChildrenArtPovertyEconomyCivilizationEssentialsBasesFoundationCharityProsperityPartnersConquerCrushHopefulLeisureLowestOutlookElderlyCultivationOutlook On Life Author:Llewellyn Rockwell
“What AI could do is essentially be a power tool that magnifies human intelligence and gives us the ability to move our civilization forward. It might be curing disease, it might be eliminating poverty. Certainly it should include preventing environmental catastrophe. If AI could be instrumental to all those things, then I would feel it was worthwhile.” IfsGivingFeelsShouldHumansMightMovingAbilityPovertyCivilizationDiseaseToolsEnvironmentalWorthwhileCatastrophePreventingEliminatingHuman IntelligencePower Tools Author:Stuart J. Russell
“The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.” SufferingFearMoralClassPovertyWorstCivilizationDiseaseEducatedMiddle ClassEnding Poverty Book:Writings, 1902-1910 Source: Writings, 1902-1910
“Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a relation between means and ends; above all it is a relation between people. Poverty is a social status. As such it is the invention of civilization. Socrates made the same point 2,400 years ago: "He is richest who is content with least, for contentment is the wealth of nature.” PeopleYearsMeanMadeEndsCertainSocialWealthPovertyAmountCivilizationYears AgoRelationInventionContentmentGoodsSmall AmountsSocial Status Author:Christopher Ryan
“Here is the chance for young women and young men of devotion to lift again the banner of humanity and to walk toward a civilization which will be free and intelligent; which will be healthy and unafraid; and build in the world a culture led by black folk and joined by peoples of all colors and all races - without poverty, ignorance and disease!” MenWorldYoungHumanityCultureBlackChanceWalksRacePovertyIgnoranceColorCivilizationHealthyDiseaseIntelligentFolksDevotionLiftsYoung ManYoung WomenBannerUnafraid Author:W. E. B. Du Bois