Alan Ryan Quotes

Extreme poverty would be hard to bear, but a miserable person is miserable however rich. A good character is our most important possession, rich or poor.

Alan Ryan

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• Devout Anatolian masses rising from poverty have transformed Turkey politically and economically.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Poverty
  • Masses
  • Rising

• We all got driven out of Manhattan. It was a very conducive place for artists when I was growing up, and now it's definitely not. The city has been completely taken over by the rich.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Growing
  • City

• I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Wish
  • Poverty

• Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Life
  • Best

• Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • World
  • Experience

• We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • World
  • Men
  • Live

• There is still a severe and scary amount of extreme poverty in rural parts of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma and sub-Saharan Africa.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • Poverty
  • Scary
  • India

• I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • Poverty
  • Development
  • Bullish

• Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • People
  • Government
  • Rich

• I just want to be rich and famous.

  

  Ian Hart
  • Want
  • Famous
  • Rich

• A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Poverty
  • Point
  • Consequences

• I work in a very tough area of Britain. There is not much hope sociologically where I live and work, they're all sorts of conditions of poverty and deprivation and so on, I really do believe that the message of the kingdom of God is for places like this.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Work
  • God
  • Believe

• The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Rich
  • Reflection
  • September

• The San Gabriel Valley, stretching from Pasadena to Pomona, is especially starved for open space. The valley has a rich array of ethnically diverse communities, but it also has some of the highest rates of childhood obesity and diabetes in the state.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Space
  • Childhood
  • Rich

• Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Wise
  • Smile
  • Rich

• Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • True
  • Poverty

• Look at what happened in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast when Katrina hit. People ask me whether they thought race was the reason the response was so slow. I say, 'well, no, this administration was colorblind in its incompetence.' But, everyone here knows that the disaster and the poverty happened long before the hurricane hit.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Long
  • Poverty

• Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Spiritual
  • Poverty

• These goals - clean water for all; school for every child; medicine for the afflicted, an end to extreme and senseless poverty - these are not just any goals; they are the Millennium Development goals, which this country supports. And they are more than that. They are the Beatitudes for a Globalised World.

  

  Bono U2
  • World
  • Country
  • School

• Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.

  

  Lester B. Pearson
  • Important
  • War
  • Today

• Why were a few, or a single one, made at all, if only to exist in order to be made eternally miserable, which is infinitely worse than non-existence?

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Order
  • Exist
  • Miserable

• There comes a time in the life of every nation when it stands at the crossroads of history and must choose which way to go.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Life
  • Time
  • History

• I feel like a drunken man who doesn't have a drink.

  

  David Pleat
  • Men
  • Feels
  • Drinking

• Extreme poverty would be hard to bear, but a miserable person is miserable however rich. A good character is our most important possession, rich or poor.

  

  Alan Ryan
  • Poverty
  • Rich
  • Miserable