Impoverishes Quotes

#1. The wastefulness of indiscriminate plunder impoverishes a country, while it adds nothing to the support of the army; policy, as well as humanity to the inhabitants, dictates that all levies should be made according to established rules, and under the charge of discreet and competent officers.

Ambrose Burnside

#2. War destroys, kills, impoverishes. Lord, give us your peace!

Pope Francis

#3. The real sustains the same relation to the ideal that a stone does to a statue - or that paint does to a painting. Realism degrades and impoverishes.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#4. Constructionism thus impoverishes humanity, by subtracting from our human powers and accrediting all of them - selfhood, reflexivity, thought, memory and emotionality - to society's discourse.

Margaret Scotford Archer

#5. When the human race learns how to give and regive equally each will be enriched. He who withholds that which he should give to another impoverishes both himself and the other.

Walter Russell

#6. The ideal-worker standard and norm of work devotion push mothers to the margins of economic life. And a society that marginalizes its mothers impoverishes its children. That is why the paradigmatic poor family in the United States is a single mother and her child.

Joan C. Williams

#7. Commerce makes friends, religion makes enemies; the one enriches, and the other impoverishes; the one thrives best where the truth is told, the other where falsehoods are believed.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#8. You must know that with a good heart you can never be a poor person! And you must also know that with a bad heart it is impossible to be a rich person! Goodness enriches; badness impoverishes!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us

Octavio Paz

#10. As the ongoing industrial crusade to turn all earthly life to commercial purpose relentlessly impoverishes the biosphere and human culture, our living images of graceful possibility dwindle.

Stephanie Mills

#11. They deify what crushes them and find reason to hope in what impoverishes them.

Albert Camus

#12. There is tremendous long-term harm when Americans accept ethnic and class balkanization as a de facto fixture of American life. I think that impoverishes our understanding of each other.

Richard Benjamin

#13. The fewer data needed, the better the information. And an overload of information, that is, anything much beyond what is truly needed, leads to information blackout. It does not enrich, but impoverishes.

Peter Drucker

#14. Listen carefully to what I am saying - and be wary of the shrewd advice that tells you how to get ahead in the world on your own. Giving, not getting, is the way. Generosity begets generosity. Stinginess impoverishes. NEVER WITHOUT A STORY

Eugene H. Peterson

#15. If trade undermines life, narrows it or impoverishes it, then it can destroy the world. If it enhances life, then it can better the world.

Anita Roddick

#16. But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.

Alan Paton

#17. Say goodbye to the IMF once and for all as the IMF's conditions enriches the rich and impoverishes the poor.

Imran Khan

#18. The Medici made me and the Medici destroyed me.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#19. Living in the West, you see how there's only two versions of how Asian men are supposed to be. Either they're very nice, yuppie husbands with children in ads, or they're IT geeks.

Kevin Kwan

#20. It's as though the words are trapped, buried under past fears, past lives, like fossils compressed under layers of dirt.

Lauren Oliver

#21. One sign of maturity is knowing when to ask for help.

Dennis Wholey

#22. God gives you a life and says, Okay, what are you going to do with it?

Alice Cooper

#23. The best of life on Earth is a glimpse of Heaven; the worst of life is a glimpse of Hell. For Christians, this present life is the closest they will come to Hell. For unbelievers, it is the closest they will come to Heaven.

Randy Alcorn

#24. A fig for those by law protected!
Liberty's a glorious feast!
Courts for cowards were erected,
Churches built to please the priest!

Robert Burns

#25. They were wrapped in each other's arms, lips and tongues dancing, and their hands exploring each other with wild abandon. With a wave of his hand and a seductively wicked wink, he divested them both of their clothing,

Sara Humphreys

#26. Nothing's ever going to change my love for you. Well, at least as long as I keep wanting what I can't have.

Kate McGahan

#27. If you want a person's faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#28. THE FIRMER YOUR GRASP ON REALITY, THE MORE POWER YOU WILL HAVE TO ALTER IT FOR YOUR PURPOSES.

50 Cent

#29. For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#30. I was a single parent, and I was prohibited from working.

Alison Moyet

#31. For my wife Deborah, for allowing me to bask in her light and become more.

Richard Wagamese