Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Chaplin

This is a story of a period between two World Wars — an interim in which insanity cut loose. Liberty took a nose dive, and humanity was kicked around somewhat.

Charlie Chaplin

I hope we shall abolish war and settle all differences at the conference table I hope we shall abolish all hydrogen and atom bombs before they abolish us first.

Charles Sumner

War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible.

Charles Sumner

Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable?

Charles Sumner

The highest greatness, surviving time and stone, is that which proceeds from the soul of man. Monarchs and cabinets, generals and admirals, with the pomp of court and the circumstance of war, in the lapse of time disappear from sight; but the pioneers of truth, though poor and lowly, especially those whose example elevates human nature, and teaches the rights of man, so that "a government of the people, by the people, for the people, may not perish from the earth;" such a harbinger can never be forgotten, and their renown spreads co-extensive with the cause they served so well.

Charles Sumner

Whether the Union stands or falls, I believe the profession of arms will henceforth be more desirable and more respected than it has been hitherto.

Charles Dudley Warner

How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man?

Charles de Gaulle

Old France, weighed down with history, prostrated by wars and revolutions, endlessly vacillating from greatness to decline, but revived, century after century, by the genius of renewal!

Charles de Gaulle

France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.

Charles Stanley

We must never limit God's ability to turn even the worst, most vile experience in our lives into something productive, beneficial and positive.

Learn to accept your limits and you'll become a happier person.

David Ricardo

Whenever the current of money is forcibly stopped, and when money is prevented from settling at its just level, there are no limits to the possible variations of the exchange.

Barbra Streisand

I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations.

Carlos Mesa

I have reached a limit in my work.

Kelly Clark

Women's snowboarding has progressed a lot. The younger riders are really pushing the limits of technical tricks.

Charlie Rose

When you limit a woman's potential, you limit your own.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

We are not defined by our limits, but by our potential,

Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness

Charles Dickens

This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes tocondemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth!

Edward Kennedy

No one who works for a living should live in poverty.

We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty.

Ban Ki-moon

It is but a short step from hunger to starvation, from disease to death.

Arundhati Roy

Poverty is a crime and the poor are terrorists

Billy Sunday

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.

It’s been proven that of all the interventions to reduce poverty, improving agricultural productivity is the best.

China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.

Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.