The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
– William James
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- A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear. – James B. Stockdale
- A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear. – James B. Stockdale
- The exclusive worship of the bitch goddess Success is our national disease. – William James
- Debt is the worst poverty. – Thomas Fuller
- Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst. – Ford Madox Ford
- The worst poverty can be found within the cold heart. – K.A. Hosein
- Poverty is the worst form of violence. – Mahatma Gandhi
- The classes and the masses. – William Ewart
- Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes. – James Madison
- Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease, and environmental degradation. Our challenge is to translate this extraordinary potential into meaningful change. – Muhammad Yunus