“There are so many things that are incompatible with a single life. No one can learn fully in one life the lessons of unbroken health and of bodily sickness, of riches and of poverty, of study and action, of comradeship and isolation, of defiance and of obedience, of virtue and of vice.” ActionPovertyVirtueStudyLessonsVicesRichesObedienceIsolationSicknessReincarnationDefianceSingle LifeUnbrokenComradeship Author:J. M. E. McTaggart
“Socialism's failure in the former Soviet Union and in the other socialist countries stands as a clean and unquestionable warning as to which path any rational and sane people should never follow again. Government planning brought poverty and ruin...Unfortunately, America is not absorbing the lessons that should be learned from the socialist experience and, instead, is following the same path of destruction.” PeopleShouldCountryGovernmentAmericaPovertyPathLessonsDestructionUnionsCleanFollowingPlanningSocialismRationalRuinsFormerWarningSovietSaneSocialistSoviet UnionAbsorbingSocialist Countries Author:Richard Ebeling
“My grandmother instilled in me two important lessons: I was just as good as anyone else, and education was my salvation. Fortunately, I was able to get scholarships to excellent schools, but I was one of the lucky ones. All of this is what draws me to anti-poverty organizations like Oxfam.” TwoImportantAbleSchoolPovertyLessonsLuckyDrawsOrganizationSalvationExcellentGrandmotherMy GrandmotherScholarshipImportant LessonsOxfam Author:Joy Bryant
“The World Bank is the monopoly provider of poverty data and, partly due to a leadership change there, the World Bank's reporting has been heavily on the rosy side since about 2000. The Bank's cultivation of an upbeat picture affords a very interesting lesson in statistics and how you can, depending on which numbers you present and how you present them, create a more positive or more negative impression of the evolution of poverty.” WorldHas BeensSidesInterestingNumbersPovertyEvolutionLessonsNegativeDuesImpressionDataStatisticsMonopolyVery InterestingCultivationProvidersRosyUpbeatWorld Bank Author:Thomas Pogge
“Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.” GivingPoorPovertyTeachLessonsPerseverance Book:The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian