Extreme law is often extreme injustice.
I'm a combination between extreme insecurity and extreme confidence.
Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress.
When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company to mount an aggressive anti-smoking campaign.
If we didn't have Social Security, our seniors would live mostly in poverty. You'd have another 18 million people in poverty.
We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World... and the poverty in the United States as well.
Everybody keeps saying that India's a poor country. Yes, we have poverty. But I blame the government of India, the political establishment, for their failure to educate and therefore their failure to control the poverty.
If you are born into poverty, the chances are good that your children will be born into poverty. Find a way to give poor kids the same cognitive stimulus that rich kids receive, and they should end up with the same tools for success.
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes.
The poor can only guess at what wealth is; the rich don't know what poverty means.
Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him.
I don't do very well with extremes of any kind - extreme diets, extreme fitness - so moderation makes a lot of sense, and Hershey's has really great portion-friendly desserts to help people incorporate treats into their lifestyles so they don't feel ...
Finding happiness by delivering it.
Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.
Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
I'm really into extreme sports and just having fun.
When we want to help the poor, we usually offer them charity. Most often we use charity to avoid recognizing the problem and finding the solution for it. Charity becomes a way to shrug off our responsibility. But charity is no solution to poverty. Ch...
And every historic effort to forge a democratic project has been undermined by two fundamental realities: poverty and paranoia. The persistence of poverty generates levels of despair that deepen social conflict the escalation of paranoia produces lev...
Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.
Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty.
