“Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to alight on the brains cortex. Poverty itself is an enormous obstacle to an enlightened and enlightening - not to say healthy - old age.” AgeHoursBrainPovertyLonelinessHealthyDespairProjectsOptimismObstaclesEnormousOld AgeEnlightenedEnlighteningNew Projects Author:Sherwin B. Nuland
“War, and the preparation for war, are the two greatest obstacles to human progress, fostering a vicious cycle of arms buildups, violence and poverty.” HumansTwoWarPovertyProgressViolenceArmsObstaclesPreparationCyclesViciousHuman ProgressFosteringGreatest ObstaclesVicious Cycles Author:Oscar Arias
“One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.” PovertyHigherCostObstaclesEscapingHigher EducationStaggeringGreatest Obstacles Author:Chris Van Hollen
“I don't think poverty provides that much of an obstacle to education as one thinks. I think the bigger obstacle to education is the fact that it's a very hard thing to do for a first-generation schoolgoer. Because not to have parents at home who can help you, motivate you, is a problem even when the parents are in the abstract very keen on children being educated.” ThinkingFirstsChildrenHardFactsHelpingProblemHomeParentPovertyGenerationsBiggerObstaclesEducatedThings To DoAbstractHard Things Author:Amartya Sen
“Poverty is not really as much of an obstacle to educational expansion as it's sometimes made out to be.” MadeSometimesPovertyObstaclesEducationalExpansion Author:Amartya Sen
“To be a woman condemned to a wretched and disgraceful punishment is no impediment to beauty, but it is an insurmountable obstacle to power. Like all persons of real genius, her ladyship well knew what accorded with her nature and her means. Poverty disgusted her -subjection deprived her of two-thirds of her greatness. Her ladyship was only a queen amongst queens: the enjoyment of satisfied pride was essential to her sway. To command beings of an inferior nature, was, to her, rather a humiliation than a pleasure.” WellsMeanPersonsTwoRealPleasurePovertyGreatnessPrideGeniusEssentialsThirdsObstaclesPunishmentSatisfiedCommandQueensEnjoymentInferiorsHumiliationWretchedDeprivedImpedimentsDisgustedDisgracefulSubjectionInsurmountableReal Genius Author:Alexandre Dumas