“not only generated misery and poverty but also a great social tragedy that added to institutional instability in the region, provoking the fall of democratically elected governments.”
Nestor Kirchner
“As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery… we have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace. The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as anger, attachment, fear and suspicion, while love and compassion and a sense of universal responsibility are the sources of peace and happiness.”
Dalai Lama
“Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear.”
Chanakya
“In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Things have never been worse than they are now in Haiti -- the violence, the misery, the poverty. It has been called a failed state. It is simply wrong that anybody should be returned to Haiti at this point.”
Steven Forester
“Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.”
Bible
“Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.”
George Soros
