Alleviation Quotes

#1. I think people are hungry for new ideas and leadership in the world of poverty alleviation. Most development programs are started and led by people with Ph.Ds in economics or policy. Samasource is part of a cadre of younger organizations headed by entrepreneurs from non-traditional backgrounds.

Leila Janah

#2. The alleviation of the condition of insanity has also been accomplished now

L. Ron Hubbard

#3. It is by no means a fact that death is the worst of all evils; when it comes it is an alleviation to mortals who are worn out with sufferings.

Pietro Metastasio

#4. Most of us working on poverty alleviation simply want to know, 'How much poverty can I reduce for every dollar I donate?'

Leila Janah

#5. Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

Albert Camus

#6. There is a certain frame of mind to which a cemetery is, if not an antidote, at least an alleviation. If you are in a fit of the blues, go nowhere else.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#7. The concentrating of powers in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one.

Thomas Jefferson

#8. we hang on to pain. It certainly satisfies our unconscious need for the alleviation of guilt through punishment. We get to feel miserable and rotten. The question then arises, "But for how long?

David R. Hawkins

#9. Depression in its major stages possesses no quickly available remedy: failure of alleviation is one of the most distressing factors of the disorder as it reveals itself to the victim, and one that helps situate it squarely in the category of grave diseases.

William Styron

#10. I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.

Dambisa Moyo

#11. For the loss of those we have loved there is no alleviation but time and carefully and rationally chosen diversions such as will not cause our heart to reproach us.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

#12. Creating - that is the great salvation from suffering, and life's alleviation. But for the creator to appear, suffering itself is needed, and much transformation.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. The market economy is deeply congruent with the values set out in the Hebrew Bible. Material prosperity is a divine blessing. Poverty crushes the spirit as well as the body, and its alleviation is a sacred task. Work is a noble calling.

Jonathan Sacks

#14. But vampires feel cold as acutely as humans, and the blood of the kill is often the rich, sensual alleviation of that cold. But

Anne Rice

#15. World Bank is a bank that's focused on economic development and poverty alleviation.

Jim Yong Kim

#16. This is a precious gateway into the alleviation of suffering, which I believe to be our principal task on this earth.

Dalai Lama XIV

#17. The alleviation of human error, whether design or intrinsically human, continues to be the most important problem facing aerospace safety.

Jerome F. Lederer

#18. The great benefit of science is that it can contribute tremendously to the alleviation of suffering at the physical level, but it is only through the cultivation of the qualities of the human heart and the transformation of our attitudes that we can begin to address and overcome our mental suffering

Dalai Lama

#19. The wage earner relies upon the ventures of confident and contented capital. This failing him, his condition is without alleviation, for he can neither prey on the misfortune of others nor hoard his labor.

Grover Cleveland

#20. Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.

Yusuf Hamied

#21. Thanks to the Communist Party of China, we now know the path to poverty alleviation is Capitalism.

Fareed Zakaria

#22. In 'Growing Stronger,' I expose my most painful moments and open my heart, thoughts and person, so that my experiences can inspire alleviation, consolation and decisiveness.

Thalia

#23. It is so vast an alleviation to be able to point for another to look at. And then not to talk. To follow the dark paths of the mind and enter the past, to visit books, to brush aside their branches and break off some fruit.

Virginia Woolf

#24. Poverty alleviation occurs when the power of Christ's resurrection reconciles our key relationships through the transformation of both individual lives and local, national, and international systems.

Brian Fikkert

#25. Intimacy being reduced to its content of mere sensation, will only be the misleading, obscure, and desperate alleviation of the existential disgust and anguish of him who has stumbled into a blind alley.

Julius Evola

#26. Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral.

F. Sionil Jose

#27. And with a new name came the ultimate alleviation of some gross unspoken responsiblity.

Rosca Marx

#28. ...A canonical leader is someone whose exemplary rule might have appeared to be for the alleviation of the pains and miseries of a particular group, but which in reality is for the advancement of humanism...

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#29. It is some alleviation to ills we cannot cure to speak of them.

Ovid

#30. For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?

Thornton Wilder

#31. Happiness is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#32. I am not here as a public official, but as a citizen of a troubled world who finds hope in a growing consensus that the generally accepted goals of society are peace, freedom, human rights, environmental quality, the alleviation of suffering, and the rule of law.

Jimmy Carter

#33. Mrs Maclintick's dissatisfaction with life had probably reached so advanced a stage that she was unable to approach any new event amiably, even when proffered temporary alleviation of her own chronic spleen.

Anthony Powell

#34. I founded Samasource because I was frustrated by traditional approaches to poverty alleviation. Even those approaches focused on jobs often equip poor people with skills for which there is little market demand.

Leila Janah

#35. If anyone's interested in the alleviation of poverty ...
the only thing we know definitely works
is giving women control over their own reproduction

Christopher Hitchens

#36. Economic development and poverty alleviation are so complicated that I don't think there's a single background or a single discipline that is sufficient to tackle these great human problems.

Jim Yong Kim

#37. There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off.

Thomas Huxley

#38. Science and Religion are two vividly different realms of the human mind. They work differently at the molecular level, but the purpose of both is alleviation of the mind from the darkness of ignorance.

Abhijit Naskar

#39. Rejoicing refers to moderation of spirit when the mind keeps itself in calmness under adversity and does not give indulgence to grief. Constant praying is the way of 'rejoicing perpetually', for by this means we ask from God alleviation in connection with all our distresses.

John Calvin

#40. Everyone has a right to peaceful coexistence, the basic personal freedoms, the alleviation of suffering, and the opportunity to lead a productive life ...

Jimmy Carter

#41. We have more than enough programs, organisations, parties, and strategies in the world for the alleviation of suffering and injustice.

Sulak Sivaraksa

#42. Medicine is not about conquering diseases and death, but about the alleviation of suffering, minimising harm, smoothing the painful journey of man to the grave.

Petr Skrabanek

#43. Poverty is everywhere, Zarish. People should have the courage to get out of the vicious circle of it.

Sara Naveed

#44. Without an informed electorate, politicians will continue to use the bottom billion merely for photo opportunities, rather than promoting real transformation.

Paul Collier

#45. How can poverty be alleviated?
When nobody eats until everyone eats at the same time.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#46. It takes nothing to stay in poverty, but everything to break free from it.

Idowu Koyenikan

#47. Hings are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems.

Muhammad Yunus

#48. Poverty is too complex to be answered with a one-size-fits-all approach, and if there is any place that illustrates that complexity, as well as a better way forward, it is Rwanda.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#49. The defeat of your enemy lies within the peace of your heart and the humbleness of your thoughts.

Auliq Ice

#50. Nothing is interesting other than deleting your name from the book of poverty and misery.

Auliq Ice

#51. The rich don't know when they will die, but the world's poor don't know when they will live

Agona Apell

#52. I needed something
the distraction of another life
to alleviate fear.

Bret Easton Ellis

#53. Facing poverty is better than living in poverty and by facing poverty you can overcome it at one point.

Auliq Ice

#54. MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction.

Christopher Hitchens

#55. We should always be realistic about our needs, steer clear of this over indulgence and self imposed poverty nonsense.

Auliq Ice

#56. Th direct elimination of elimination of poverty should be the objective of all development aid. Development should be viewed as a human rights issue, not as a question of simply increasing the gross national product (GNP).

Muhammad Yunus

#57. It's sad to see the world live in ignorance full of pain only enjoyed luxuriously by the few stupid greedy ones.

Auliq Ice

#58. The world has also learned that economic growth, by itself, cannot close the gap between rich and poor.

Dalai Lama XIV