Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Ehrenreich

The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.

Bill Nye

How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?

Dan Ariely

The more cashless our society becomes, the more our moral compass slips.

Edwin Land

Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going.

Billy Crudup

I have never indulged our society's misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that is necessarily hearsay, speculation or fantasy.

Andrzej Wajda

Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society.

Doris Lessing

Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.

Anthony Fauci

Activism has been very productive in our society.

Matt Taibbi

Obsessed with success and wealth and despising failure and poverty, our society is systematically dividing the population into winners and losers, using institutions like the courts to speed the process.

Wallace Wattles

No one ever got rich by studying poverty and thinking about poverty.

Brad Pitt

By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make sense.

Juvenal

It is unmistakable madness to live in poverty only to die rich.

Carlos Slim

Poverty isn’t solved with donations.

Billy Sunday

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.

Bill Gates

Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.

Arundhati Roy

Poverty is a crime and the poor are terrorists

Charles Lamb

Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.

Charles Lamb

We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.

Jared Diamond

People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental population problem facing the world today?" A flip answer would be, "The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!

Alan Lightman

Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers... that is a small population.

Kelly Wood

The population is healthy, but it's not like we've got a lot of them.

Charlie Roberts

The population is growing, the unemployment rate is dropping. It's a combination of those two factors.

David Price

Goodness knows the Republican electorate is a pretty narrow slice of the population.

David R. Brower

You don't have a conservation policy unless you have a population policy.

John Williamson

The potential for social unrest, social instability is pretty significant. You have a very substantial proportion of your population that has been undereducated, malnourished, marginalized, is disaffected, not able to go to school.

John Williamson

The potential for social unrest, social instability is pretty significant, ... You have a very substantial proportion of your population that has been undereducated, malnourished, marginalized, is disaffected, not able to go to school.

Brian Behlendorf

There is no better form of trade a developing nation can engage in than to sell services provided by an educated population.