John Danilovich quotes

John Danilovich quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“One of the best ways countries can combat poverty is to use development assistance to promote a growing private sector, in which the poor can fully participate.”
-- John Danilovich

#Country Quotes #Way Quotes #Poverty Quotes

“Into my hear an air that kills through yon far country blows what are those blue remembered hills what spires,what farms are those? that is the land of lost content I can see it shining plain the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.”
“You are talking to a leftist. I believe in the redistribution of wealth and power in the world. I believe in universal hospital care for everyone. I believe that we should not have a single homeless person in the richest country in the world. And I believe that we should not have a C.I.A. that goes around overwhelming governments and assassinating political leaders, working for tight oligarchies around the world to protect the tight oligarchy here at home.”
“It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.”
“War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.”
“Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.”

Source : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr
“I would rather be rich affluent and greedy and go to hell when I die, than live in poverty on this earth.”
“It wasn't poverty that drove me on.”
“But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.”
“Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.”
“Riches without faith are the greatest poverty.”

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