I think that once you fully understand the climate and ecological emergencies, then you know what you can do as well. And, of course, there’s a lot of things you can do in your everyday life, but we cannot be focusing on these individual things you can do. We have to see the full picture.
Greta ThunbergAs you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
Henry David ThoreauTrouble brews when we steal from the poor and give to the rich.
Robert KiyosakiContent makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
Benjamin FranklinDon’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don’t expect anything from anybody.
Paul AusterMost poor people live in the poorest countries.
Bill GatesWhat I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.
David BowieTen people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
Napoleon BonaparteI’m a radical environmentalist; I think the sooner we asphyxiate in our own filth, the better. The world will do better without us. Maybe some fuzzy animals will go with us, but there’ll be plenty of other animals, and they’ll be back.
Anthony BourdainThe Global Fund is a central player in the progress being achieved on HIV, TB and malaria. It channels resources to help countries fight these diseases. I believe in its impact because I have seen it firsthand.
Bill GatesFor the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
PlatoHaving been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
Benjamin FranklinAt places like Davos, people like to tell success stories. But their financial success has come with an unthinkable price tag. And on climate change, we have to acknowledge we have failed.
Greta ThunbergI’ve laid my friends bare.
J. K. RowlingWhen people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.
Mark ZuckerbergIf we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.
Richard M. NixonPhysical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
Franklin D. RooseveltI did not learn the flaws of the criminal-justice system in law school or college or by reading about it. I grew up knowing the flaws and how it was disproportionately impacting the black community. It’s not academic for me.
Kamala HarrisWhen I was young, poverty was so common that we didn’t know it had a name.
Lyndon B. JohnsonThe men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.
Billy GrahamWe have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
John F. KennedyPeople are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
PlatoThe Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
Noam ChomskyIf you think dealing with issues like worthiness and authenticity and vulnerability are not worthwhile because there are more pressing issues, like the bottom line or attendance or standardized test scores, you are sadly, sadly mistaken. It underpins everything.
Brene BrownI think we all change each other’s paths. I don’t know which law idea that is in physics, but I don’t think any of us can live without affecting one another.
Frank OceanWhat is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Henry David ThoreauThere is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
Andrew CarnegieIn England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.
Oscar WildeThings don’t have to change the world to be important.
Steve JobsI was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I’m not ashamed of anything.
EminemI cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.
Jackie RobinsonIt takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
Erma BombeckHe who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaLife is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn’t trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.
Jim CarreyBut Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
Alexander PopeThere are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.
Stephen HawkingI truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.
BonoHumanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
E. E. CummingsWe’re running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere… can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.
Elon MuskWould you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation?
Thomas SowellOur global economy is much more fragile than many of us realize.
Robert KiyosakiThe world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.
Bill GatesI don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.
Lady GagaI saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.
Benjamin FranklinI don’t want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living even after my death!
Anne FrankSome folks believe that hardship breeds artistic creativity. I don’t buy it. One can put up with poverty for a while when one is young, but it will inevitably wear a person down.
David ByrneI’d always tried to resist playing the supervirility thing. I liked showing the vulnerability of age.
Clint EastwoodWhen the external factors over which one has no control in a way start to become negative, it starts to affect our creative juices.
Stephen CoveyThe shift to a cleaner energy economy wont happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact.
Barack ObamaI grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn’t enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.
Wayne DyerIndifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
J. K. RowlingEvery gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Dwight D. EisenhowerThis is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.
Barack ObamaLive-tweeting your bikini wax is not vulnerability. Nor is posting a blow-by-blow of your divorce . That’s an attempt to hot-wire connection. But you can’t cheat real connection. It’s built up slowly. It’s about trust and time.
Brene BrownGreat talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
Carl JungAssassination has never changed the history of the world.
Benjamin DisraeliMoney is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Woody AllenComing generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
Khalil GibranPeople are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
James BaldwinThe main message we want to get out there is that climate change is caused by the rotten economic system.
Vivienne Westwood