Poverty
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
Mohandas Gandhi

Poverty is the mother of crime.
Marcus Aurelius

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
Robert Kennedy

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
Victor Hugo

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.
Adam Smith


All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
Samuel Johnson


Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
Bertolt Brecht

Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.
Bertolt Brecht

Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
Michel de Montaigne

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
David Hume

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
Charles de Montesquieu
Corruption Quotes
But eradicating corruption is not enough to sustain a country.
Eduard Shevardnadze
Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.
Charles Caleb Colton

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.
Peter Ustinov

I want to rid the country of corruption and return our economic environment.
Nestor Kirchner

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
Abdul Kalam
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If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
Algernon Sidney

Islam
Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.
Steve Earle
America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
Barack Obama
I am totally against the idea that a Muslim woman should not have the same opportunities as a Muslim man to learn, to open up, to work, help shape the future. To close Islam down to a sexist approach is totally intolerable and ridiculous. It's not Islam.
King Hussein I
I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.
Barack Obama

Peace

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. ~Mother Teresa


Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots. ~Napoleon Bonaparte
The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war. ~Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Muslims
Many Muslims honor people of other faiths and do not kill.
Paul Weyrich


Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone.
Abu Bakar Bashir

Muslims should live like brothers.
Abu Bakr

Mother Teresa
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Mother Teresa

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
Mother Teresa

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.
Mother Teresa

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.
Mother Teresa

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
Mother Teresa

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?
Mother Teresa

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
Mother Teresa

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
Mother Teresa

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
Mother Teresa

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Mother Teresa

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
Mother Teresa
Martin Luther King, Jr.
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

A lie cannot live.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
A right delayed is a right denied.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

A riot is the language of the unheard.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Unemployment
For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.
Kim Campbell

Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.
Hans Kung
In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils - mass unemployment and the threat of war.
James Meade

It has to be because unemployment problems in northwest Indiana are similar to those in southeast Chicago.
Richard M. Daley

It is a fact that, if I single out Germany, our rate of growth is too low and we have very high unemployment.
Angela Merkel

It is sensible to have a safeguard against unemployment.
Glynis Johns
Youth
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Albert Einstein

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
Mark Twain

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
William Shakespeare

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
Aristotle

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
Aristotle

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
Aristotle

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
Kurt Cobain

I go to school the youth to learn the future.
Robert Frost
Education
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
A. Bartlett Giamatti

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
Will Rogers

America is the best half-educated country in the world.
Nicholas M. Butler

An educated people can be easily governed.
Frederick The Great
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Edward Everett

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant

Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Aristotle

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
George Washington Carver

Education is the transmission of civilization.
Will Durant

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B. F. Skinner
Illiteracy Quotes
Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy.
Abdul Qadeer Khan

If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.
Danny Glover

Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication.
Karen Black
Politics

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
Abraham Lincoln

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
Albert Einstein

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.
John F. Kennedy

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.
John F. Kennedy

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
Aristotle

In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?
Barack Obama
Karl Marx
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
Karl Marx
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
Karl Marx
Democracy is the road to socialism.
Karl Marx
Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
Karl Marx
For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
Karl Marx
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
Karl Marx
History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Karl Marx
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
Karl Marx
I am not a Marxist.
Karl Marx
Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
Karl Marx
Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
Karl Marx
Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
Karl Marx
Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
Karl Marx
eason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
Karl Marx
Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
Karl Marx
Religion is the opium of the masses.
Karl Marx
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
Karl Marx
Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
Karl Marx
Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand. Karl Marx
Muhammad Ali Jinnah Quotes
Come forward as servants of Islam, organise the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Expect the best, Prepare for the worst.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Failure is a word unknown to me.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Think 100 times before you take a decision, But once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man. Muhammad Ali Jinnah

With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Justice
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Abraham Lincoln
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
Eleanor Roosevelt
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
Aristotle
I think God's justice is making wrongs right. Joel Osteen
America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
Barack Obama

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Aristotle

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
George Washington

The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.
George Washington
Religion Quotes

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
C. S. Lewis

Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time.
Dennis Miller

Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
Isaac Asimov