Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.
Edward Gibbon
When the producers of 'Why Poverty?' came to me to do a film about poverty in the United States, I asked if I could do a film about wealth... →
Alex Gibney
Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
Khalil Gibran
India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead... →
Yusuf Hamied
Poverty existed before January 20, 2008, OK? Before President Obama took office.
Hill Harper
Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.
Michael Harrington
We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create.
Paul Hawken
Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.
Stephen Hawking
Between 2001 and 2011, Brazil lifted 20 million people out of poverty and into its growing middle class, and in the last quarter of the twentieth... →
Peter Blair Henry
Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.
Don Herold