#poor

Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries on earth. Security issue or no security issue, there would need to be a focus on it. ↗

— Helen Clark

#countries #earth #focus #issue #need

If you neglect those who are currently poor and stable, you may create more poor and unstable people. There has been a tremendous concentration of donor interest in countries that are seen as particularly fragile - but it becomes harder to mobilise money for sub-Saharan, plain poor countries. ↗

— Helen Clark

#been #concentration #countries #create #currently

I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish mistakes. ↗

— John Clayton

#foolish #guess #i #judgments #like

I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love. ↗

— Red Cloud

#chief #children #could #good #i

Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of "speculation"; but which ought to be called Gambling. ↗

— William Cobbett

#arising #been #called #desire #destructive

One of the great problems of the world today is undoubtedly this problem of not being able to talk to scientists, because we don't understand science; they can't talk to us because they don't understand anything else, poor dears. ↗

— Michael Flanders

#anything #because #being #dears #else

When people get at each other's throat, the rich and the poor and the Left and the Right and so on, and you have a basic breakdown, that becomes very threatening. ↗

— Ray Dalio

#becomes #breakdown #each #get #left

Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#best #between #classes #country #dependence

I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room. ↗

— David Copperfield

#had #i #only #parents #poor

Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical. ↗

— Edgard Varese

#illogical #musical #our #poor