All Quotes By Tag: Poverty
“Unlike wealth, poverty of intellect is equally distributed between the sexes and among the races.”
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“I’m a religious man,” he said. “I don’t believe in a particularGod, but even so one can have a faith, something beyondthe limits of rationality. Marxism has a large element ofbuilt-in faith, although it claims to be a science and notmerely an ideology. This is my first visit to the West: untilnow I have only been able to go to the Soviet Union orPoland or the Baltic states. In your country I see anabundance of material things. It seems to be unlimited. Butthere’s a difference between our countries that is also asimilarity. Both are poor. You see, poverty has differentfaces. We lack the abundance that you have, and we don’thave the freedom of choice. In your country I detect a kind of poverty, which is that you do not need to fight for yoursurvival. For me the struggle has a religious dimension, andI would not want to exchange that for your abundance.”
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“Born in 1987 in Malawi, William grew up in a village with no electricity or running water, and in a family that barely survived on the food it grew with a little left over to pay for school. After a terrible drought in 2001, William had to drop out of school because his family could no longer afford his school fees. He kept educating himself by going to the library and reading everything he could. One day, he found a book on windmills and determined he’d build one. So he did. Starting with scrap parts he found in light bulbs and radios. William built the first windmill he or his village had ever seen. And it worked, generating electricity for his family and his neighbors.Williamkamkwamba.com”
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“Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if he’s far down enough (down where I have been and am rising from, I am really saying), he can’t afford self-doubt and he can’t let other people’s opinions, even a father’s, keep him from writing.”
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“Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have.”
“Life curses some poor people with the love of luxury, while it blesses some with the very same thing.”
“The second most dangerous thing about money is that it leaves most of the people who have a lot of it with the unshakable belief that they are intelligent and well informed. The most dangerous thing about it is that it leaves most of the people who do not have a lot of money with the very same belief.”
“Getting through life without a lot of money, possessions, and/or friends is admirable, especially if it is by choice.”
“Most poor people do not really aspire to end poverty; they merely aspire to escape it.”
“A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.”
“An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.”
“The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.”
“Whoever said that money didn’t buy happiness was a damn fool. A damn fool who’d never been poor.”