Bottom Billion Quotes

#1. The bottom billion people don't contribute at all to climate change - maybe 1 percent of emissions, they could double or triple their emissions and the climate would not be destabilised.

Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

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

Paul Collier

#3. In my view, there is no justice when the 15 wealthiest people in this country in the last two years, saw their wealth increase by $170 billion. That is more wealth acquired in a two year period than is owned by the bottom 130 million Americans.

Bernie Sanders

#4. Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving.

Aristotle.

#5. All told, these profit levels have put the world's five largest publicly traded oil companies on track to earn more than $100 billion before year's end. Yet, at the same time that Big Oil's bottom line is going up, so are Americans' energy costs.

Allyson Schwartz

#6. This is our bottom line, and the will of 1.25 billion Chinese people.

Zhu Rongji

#7. Two abysses, gentlemen of the jury, remember that Karamazov can contemplate two abysses, and both at the same time.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#8. As of early 2016, the sixty-two richest people in the world were worth as much as the poorest 3.6 billion people! Since the world's population is about 7.2 billion, it means that these sixty-two billionaires together hold as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humankind.37 The

Yuval Noah Harari

#9. Young kids don't have their identity, so everything is so important. Now I'm mature. I know who I am and I know what my thing is and I know what I'm bringing. It's very clear and defined.

Liz Phair

#10. Part of being open to learning is taking risks!

John Salka

#11. To have a happy family...is to enjoy an earlier heaven.

Og Mandino

#12. I don't think I sound like Janis Joplin. I'm a woman with a raspy voice.

Brittany Howard

#13. Mrs March knew that experience was an excellent teacher, and, when it was possible, she left her children to learn alone the lessons which she would gladly have made easier, if they had not objected to taking advice as much as they did salts and senna.*

Louisa May Alcott

#14. One has neither independence nor freedom from bondage when he is obligated to others

Gordon B. Hinckley