“It is doubtful if even experience of riches and success is as intense among those who have experienced nothing else as among those who have also experienced poverty and failure. There is little romance in wealth to those who have been born wealthy and whose families have been wealthy for generations.” IfsLittlesHas BeensRomanceBornWealthPovertyGenerationsRichesIntenseWealthyDoubtful Author:Robert Wilson Lynd
“The struggle against poverty in the world and the challenge of cutting wealthy country emissions all has a single, very simple solution... Here it is: Put a price on carbon.” WorldCountryChallengesSimplePovertyStruggleCuttingSolutionsActivismWealthyCarbonEmissionsSimple Solutions Author:Al Gore
“the wealthy white western minority of the world could not hope to prosper if most of the rest of mankind were foundering in hopeless poverty. Islands of plenty in a vast ocean of misery never have been a good recipe for commercial success.” IfsWorldHas BeensWhitePoorPovertyRichMankindOceanMiseryWesternPlentyIslandsMinoritiesHopelessWealthyRecipesRich And PoorVast Ocean Author:Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
“people who pay greater respect to a wealthy villain than to an honest, upright man in poverty, almost deserve to be enslaved; they plainly show that wealth, however it may be acquired, is, in their esteem, to be preferred to virtue.” PeopleMenMayShowsWealthPoorPayPovertyVirtueGreaterHonestHonestyRespectDeserveEsteemAcquireWealthyVillainPreferenceDeservingViewpointsEnslavementCore ValuesVillainyPlainnessUprightnessEstimatingUpright Man Author:John Hancock
“President Lyndon Johnson's administration was known for his War on Poverty. President Obama's will become notable for his War on Prosperity. We're speaking, of course, of Obama's plans to hike income taxes on the most wealthy 2 or 3 percent of the nation. He's not just raising the top rate to 39.6 percent; he's also disallowing about one-third of top earner's deductions, whether for state and local taxes, charitable contributions or mortgage interest. This is an effective hike in their taxes by an average of about 20 percent.” WarStatesCoursesNationsPresidentInterestKnownPovertyPlansTaxesPercentThirdsRateAverageProsperityIncomeLocalsAdministrationContributionWealthyPresident ObamaJohnsonNotableMortgageIncome TaxCharitableDeductionsWar On PovertyPresident Lyndon Johnson Author:Dick Morris
“Imagine living in abject poverty and not knowing anything other than that for generations. Or alternatively, imagine being born into a really wealthy family, but there was no real love. Everyone's living these extraordinary, interesting lives whether they know it or not.” KnowsRealBornInterestingPovertyKnowingImagineGenerationsExtraordinaryWealthyReal LoveNot KnowingLove EveryoneInteresting Life Author:Annie Lennox
“One of the things is that I've been very comfortable in every situation starting ministry in the inner city and ministering in places - Washington, D.C., feeding the homeless, the hurting, going to broken boys and girls. So culturally I understood all different aspects of life - from extremely wealthy to extreme poverty, socioeconomic differences, ethnic differences.” DifferentGirlDifferencesHurtCitiesSituationBoysPovertyBrokenComfortableUnderstoodAspectStartingExtremesWealthyMinistryHomelessFeedingBoy And GirlAspects Of LifeInner CityExtreme Poverty Author:Paula White
“The best way to perpetuate poverty is spending on arms, and poverty itself is a form of violence. The wealthy industrialized countries have been too slow to recognize this. I hope that in this new century and new millennium, the world will learn that if you want peace, you must prepare for peace, plan for peace, work for it, and comply with its dictates. Lasting peace will never be achieved with the instruments of war.” WorldWarCountryPovertyViolenceWealthy Author:Oscar Arias
“Materialism blinds us to our spiritual poverty. Jesus rebuked the Laodicean Christians because although they were materially wealthy, they were desperately poor in the things of God . Puritan Richard Baxter said, "When men prosper in the world, their minds are lifted up with their estates, and they can hardly believe that they are so ill, while they feel themselves so well."” MenWorldMindBelieveChristianSpiritualJesusPoorPovertyIllMaterialismWealthyPuritan Author:Randy Alcorn
“There is still an assumption among many people that to be black is to be lower class. In the last fifteen to twenty years, perhaps even further back than that, there's also been an explosion of a very wealthy black class in the United States, but those people are often treated as special cases: they're athletes, entertainers. Jay-Z. Basketball players. The country metabolizes the fact these rich black people exist, but it seems only to reinforce the idea that every other black person is limping along in poverty.” PeopleCountryBlackPovertyRichPlayerSpecialBasketballAthleteAssumptionWealthyBlack PeopleBasketball Player Author:Ayana Mathis
“Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.” MenGivingChancePovertyAirBreatheIslandsWealthyEqual OpportunityFormula 1Motorsports Author:Ayrton Senna