Quotes of: Extreme-poverty Keyword

Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.

Eartha Kitt

Wealth converts a strange land into homeland and poverty turns a native place into a strange land.

Hazrat Ali ibn Abu-Talib

I agree with President Roosevelt, and generations since, that American seniors deserve better than poverty.

Hank Johnson

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

Hannah More

I wrote 'The Blue Sweater' to inspire more people to become engaged in working to solve the problems of global poverty.

Jacqueline Novogratz

It's a powerful thing to know that you are empowering someone to lift themselves out of poverty.

Jessica Jackley

World Bank is a bank that's focused on economic development and poverty alleviation.

Jim Yong Kim

State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need from remedy.

Ernie Fletcher

I think that America in general is piratical. Every time we accept a paycheck for doing almost nothing, allowing us to live above the poverty line, we're engaging in piracy.

Will Oldham

The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic. Peace, poverty, and backwardness cannot mix in one region.

King Hussein I

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

George Bernard Shaw

These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.

Orhan Pamuk

First, women are more likely to live in poverty during their retirement years than are men.

Ginny Brown-Waite

It is conflict overall that mires people in poverty. That is the first law of development.

Andrew Mitchell

The prosperity of humanity is in utter disparity with its clarity largely seen in wider poverty.

Anuj Somany

There is no point in poverty if it does not make a rich man, observing it, feel better.

Love

Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms of The Human Virus.

William S. Burroughs

The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.

Ted Turner

Opacity on extreme levels is not addressed anywhere, including Dodd-Frank.

Paul Singer

I was an extremely reclusive and introverted boy.

Robert B. Laughlin

I'm extremely lucky in that my wife is the chief scheduler.

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