#overt

All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible thing you see. The civilized world reads about it, then forgets it, but pats you on the head for doing it and gives you a reward as appreciation for changing nothing. ↗

— David Baldacci

#change #civilization #detachment #journalism #mankind

The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#freedom #materialism #poverty #freedom

Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache. ↗

— Mae West

#conquers #except #love #poverty #things

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient ↗

— Milton Berle

#poverty #truth #inspirational

A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. ↗

— Lloyd Banks

#glaring #look #poverty #revolution #soon

I had had an extroverted personality with a lot of friends, but when I lost the weight and grew so tall, I withdrew within myself. ↗

— Tyra Banks

#friends #grew #had #i #lost

In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music. ↗

— Chris Barber

#introverted #life #music #self-absorbed #their

Jazz of the sort we play is a happy, extroverted music. You don't have to think about it too much. ↗

— Chris Barber

#extroverted #happy #jazz #much #music

The folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty. ↗

— Edward Bellamy

#men

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#money #poverty #progress #wealth #money