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“We try to do something different. We pick an auto-immune disorder and raise money for it. This time it was diabetes and we walked to raise money. Why? I want people to feel we have done something to change their lives.”
Gail Devers (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The money that came in was just from the community, not from businesses. We didn't have business money. Our sponsors gave us in-kind contributions, like bottled water. That's what the foundation is about, the community coming together and making a difference.”
Gail Devers (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I wanted to be able to do ordinary things again like shopping or riding a jeepney without creating a commotion. With my showbiz earnings, I tried going into different businesses, like selling jewelry or lending money, ‘yung 5-6. But most of those who borrowed money from me ran away without paying me back.”
Sarsi Emmanuelle first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Whatever happened to Sarsi Emmanuelle?, - Leah Salterio - 6 August 2003.
“...Rutherford never spent more than £2500 a year on his research programme. He resisted suggestions that an industrial appeal might provide him with more money and he did not believe in the economic significance of any of the work he was doing. He used to boast that ‘we have no money, so we shall have to think’.”
Ernest Rutherford (attributed) first seen 1931 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As written by Lord Bowden (worked under Rutherford c. 1931); in "Effects of World War II on education in science", Bowden 1975
“The colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters had it not been that England took away from the colonies their money, which created unemployment and dissatisfaction. The inability of colonists to get power to issue their own money permanently out of the hands of George the III and the international bankers was the PRIME reason for the Revolutionary War.”
Benjamin Franklin (misattributed) first seen 1766 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Some of the statement might be derived from those made during his examination by the British Parliament in February 1766, published in "The Examination of Benjamin Franklin" in The Parliamentary History of England from …
“In the Colonies we issue our own money. It is called Colonial Scrip. We issue it in proper proportion to the demands of trade and industry to make the products pass easily from the producers to the consumers. In this manner, creating for ourselves our own paper money, we control its purchasing power, and we have no interest to pay no one.”
Benjamin Franklin (misattributed) first seen 1941 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Money and Men by Robert McCann Rice (1941) but no prior source is extant.
“History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling the money and its issuance.”
James Madison (misattributed) first seen 1946 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The Story of Our Money (1946) by Olive Cushing Dwinell, p. 71; this is in an author's note following a quote by Alexander Hamilton. After the author's note there is the sentence "From Writings of Madison, p…
“Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money—only for wanting to keep your own money.”
Joseph Sobran (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Simply because it’s easier to learn to work for money, especially if fear is your primary emotion when the subject of money is discussed.”
Robert Kiyosaki (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Money is running their lives, and they refuse to tell the truth about that. Money is in control of their emotions and hence their souls.”
Robert Kiyosaki (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’ve met so many people who say, ‘Oh, I’m not interested in money.’ Yet they’ll work at a job for eight hours a day. That’s a denial of truth. If they weren’t interested in money, then why are they working?”
Robert Kiyosaki (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“More money seldom solves someone’s money problems. Intelligence solves problems.”
Robert Kiyosaki (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“True, I have lost money on many occasions. But I only play with money I can afford to lose.”
Robert Kiyosaki (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Too often today, we focus to borrowing money to get the things we want instead of focusing on creating money.”
Robert Kiyosaki (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To be the master of money, you need to be smarter than it. Then money will do as it is told. It will obey you. Instead of being a slave to it, you will be the master of it. That is financial intelligence.”
Robert Kiyosaki (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have to be a manufacturing country again. You know, health care is all wonderful, but health care doesn't make money. We have to bring money in.”
Donald Trump (born 1946) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Donald Trump, interviewed by Wolf Blitzer on "The Situation Room", CNN (September 22, 2010).
“Portraiture is the orphan of the art world, but make no mistake, it is so exciting and exhilarating. I did my work because I loved the interaction with the subjects, not because of the money. I was honoured to do the people I felt were of historical importance, and money couldn’t buy that.”
Naomi Jacobson first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Naomi Jacobson: A sculptor who honoured historical figures. Jewish Affairs, Chanukah 2016.
“There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.”
George Farquhar (1677–1707) first seen 1707 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Beaux’ Stratagem (1707), Arch, Act i, Sc. 1.
“The vicious circle linking poverty, police, courts and prison is an integral element of ghetto existence.”
Angela Davis (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“With one hand he put A penny in the urn of poverty, And with the other took a shilling out.”
Robert Pollok (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Robert Pollok
“An Atheist knows that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An Atheist knows that a deed must be done instead of a prayer said. An Atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanquished, war eliminated.”
Madalyn Murray O'Hair (1919–1995) first seen 1959 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: MURRAY v. CURLETT, Petition for Relief, 1959
“The greatest danger to our future is apathy. We cannot expect those living in poverty and ignorance to worry about saving the world. For those of us able to read this magazine, it is different. We can do something to preserve our planet.”
Jane Goodall (1934–2025) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Power of One", TIME Magazine (26 August 2002)
“We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.”
Jane Goodall (1934–2025) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Subject: Jane Goodall, primatologist and conservationist, interviewed at the World Summit on Sustainable Development (2002)
“We drove into the Los Angeles Black Belt, Central Avenue, night clubs, abandoned apartment houses, broken-down business houses, the forlorn street of poverty for the Negro and swank for the whites.”
John Fante (1909–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When a jumbo jet crashes, we will rush in with assistance, but we forget that each day 30,000 children die unnecessarily from poverty-related preventable causes - equivalent to 100 jumbo jets crashing every day.”
Benjamin Mkapa (1938–2020) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: At the United Nations' 60th summit, 2005-09-16
“Poverty and Genius were coupled by the wisdom of Providence for wise and good ends, no doubt”
Ignatius Sancho (1729–1780) first seen 1778 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (from vol 2, letter 9: 4 Oct 1778, to Mr S___ ).
“O Poverty! thou source of human art, Thou great inspirer of the poet’s song!”
Edward Moore (1712–1757) said by 1757 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Hymn to Poverty", St. 1 (Poetical Works of Edward Moore, Edinburgh: Apollo Press, 1781, p. 154)
“Monotony is poverty, whether in speech or in life.”
Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) first seen 1915 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: from Art of Public Speaking (1915)
“The history of Puerto Rico in the past decades has been that of two drives seeking to merge into one: the drive to abolish poverty and the drive of the people toward the ideal image of themselves.”
Luis Muñoz Marín (1898–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The objective is, I repeat, a good civilization based on the abolition of poverty. A political status that puts obstacles in the path of that ideal cannot be, so long as it creates obstacles, the status that gives real freedom to the people of Puerto Rico.”
Luis Muñoz Marín (1898–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have given the United States half the territory they possess, and for them to suffer me to remain in poverty, in consequence of it, will not redound much to their honor hereafter.”
George Rogers Clark (1752–1818) first seen 1778 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to General Jonathan Clark, George's elder brother (1792-05-11), from William Hayden English, Conquest of the Country Northwest of the River Ohio, 1778–1783, and Life of Gen. George Rogers Clark (1896), vol. 2, p.…
“What is science? yard-measure and scale to philosophy, expert-accountant, bank clerk. What is poetry? miserable, ill-fed, underpaid, unionized labourer, pleased to oblige, grateful for work, flattering himself that poverty makes him an aristocrat.”
Laura Riding (1901–1991) first seen 1928 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: This Philosophy" from Anarchism Is Not Enough (London: Jonathan Cape, 1928)
“Convinced that character is all and circumstances nothing, [the Puritan] sees in the poverty of those who fall by the way, not a misfortune to be pitied and relieved, but a moral failing to be condemned, and in riches, not an object of suspicion … but the blessing which rewards the triumph of energy and will.”
R. H. Tawney (1880–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.”
Diogenes of Sinope (400–323 BC) said by 323 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our world is one of terrible contradictions. Plenty of food but one billion people go hungry. Lavish lifestyles for a few, but poverty for too many others. Huge advances in medicine while mothers die everyday in childbirth . . . Billions spent on weapons to kill people instead of keeping them safe.”
Ban Ki-moon (born 1944) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: October 2011; Watchtower ONLINE LIBRARY
“To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.”
Hedy Lamarr (1914–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Take patience as your pillow, hug poverty, discard lusts, oppose your desires and know that you are seen by God, so look at how you are.”
Muhammad al-Taqi (811–835) said by 835 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Poverty is the self's greed and increased despair.”
Ali al-Hadi (829–868) said by 868 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A parents' dissatisfaction causes poverty and leads to humiliation.”
Ali al-Hadi (829–868) said by 868 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Poverty and adversity is the cause of the soul’s rebellion, revolt, and the gravity of dismay.”
Ali al-Hadi (829–868) said by 868 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“After a divorce, men’s biggest fear is, typically, losing their children (women’s is poverty).”
Warren Farrell (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Three-quarters of dads who were in South Carolina jails for being behind in child support payments suffer from extreme poverty. And one-eighth of all South Carolina inmates are in jail for being behind in child support payments.”
Warren Farrell (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He stared at the city, half slum, half paradise. How could a place be so ugly and violent yet beautiful at the same time? he wondered. He hadn’t known about the poverty and violence of Lagos until he arrived. It was as if people conspired with the city to weave a web of silence around its unsavoury parts.”
Chris Abani (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What finally decided me was what happened in that village in Tibet; we had airdropped in during the night to get between the Indians and the Chinese. I had never seen poverty or disease like that and I wondered why guns were the only thing we could bring them.”
Harry Harrison (writer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My God, give me neither poverty nor riches; but whatsoever it may be Thy will to give, give me with it a heart which knows humbly to acquiesce in what is Thy will.”
Christian Scriver (1629–1693) said by 1693 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The problem of poverty, of corruption, of the great challenges of Latin American societies won't be resolved through violence, but through more democracy.”
Manuel Zelaya (born 1952) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Manuel Zelaya pushes for peace on return to Honduras, Associated Press in Tegucigalpa, The Guardian (29 May 2011)
“If you have not tasted poverty, you will not be able to manage blessing when it comes. If you have not tasted humiliation, you will not be able to manage honour when it comes.”
T. B. Joshua (1963–2021) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In an interview with Tell Magazine, Nigeria, on the reason for his passion for the needy - "The People Come First - TB Joshua" (December 24 2007)
“The use, rather than... abuse, of this control of the unlimited resources of Nature brings within the range of practicability the abolition of poverty, destitution and economic slavery of the many...”
Frederick Soddy (1877–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Race and crime can be discussed as long as the topic is framed in ‘root-causes’ terms: stick to the Three Ps—patriarchy, poverty, and powerlessness.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Coddling Killers, The American Spectator, December 29, 2004
“Freedom is incomplete if it is exercised in poverty.”
Harry Schwarz (1924–2010) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Harry Schwarz in 'Poverty Corrodes Freedom' (1993).