“We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it.” MeanDoePovertyMaterialsDegreesIntellectualExtremesCirclesViciousVicious Circles Book:La vieillesse Source: La vieillesse
“...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
“Crimes increase as education, opportunity, and property decrease. Whatever spreads ignorance, poverty and, discontent causes crime.... Criminals have their own responsibility, their own share of guilt, but they are merely the hand.... Whoever interferes with equal rights and equal opportunities is in some real degree, responsible for the crimes committed in the community.” RealHandsOpportunityCausesCommunityResponsibilityPovertyRightsShareCrimeIgnoranceEqualDegreesIncreaseResponsibleGuiltPropertyCommittedSpreadCriminalsInterfereEqual RightsDiscontentDecreaseEqual Opportunity Author:Rutherford B. Hayes
“All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and ignorance, labor and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are all terms for greater or less degree of freedom.” MenCultureTermWealthEffortPovertyVirtueGreaterIgnoranceDiseaseDegreesLaborIncreaseInstinctHungerVicesImpulseLeisureWealth And Poverty Book:War and Peace Source: War and Peace
“When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.” LongEndsGovernmentLastsPovertyDegreesLuxuryRepublicMonarchyInsensible Author:Baron de Montesquieu
“When I'm not governing my country any more, I'll go back to taking care of children. Or else I'll start studying anthropology - it's a science that's always interested me very much, also in relation to the problem of poverty. Or else I'll go back to studying history - at Oxford I took my degree in history. Or else...I don't know, I'm fascinated by the tribal communities. I might busy myself with them.” KnowsChildrenCountryProblemMightCareCommunityPovertyStudyDegreesRelationBusyFascinatedGoverningAnthropologyOxfordStudying History Author:Indira Gandhi
“More than poverty, more than degree of education, religion, access to natural resources, even degree of democracy - violence against females is the biggest indicator of whether a country will be violent in itself or be willing to use military violence against another country.” CountryUseNaturalPovertyDemocracyViolenceMilitaryWillingDegreesResourcesFemaleAccessViolentNatural ResourcesIndicators Author:Gloria Steinem