George Stevens Quotes

The only good Zionist is a dead Zionist.... We must take a lesson from Hitler.... Zionism will be crushed in the name of humanity.

Tis unpleasant to meet a beggar. It is painful to deny him; and, if you relieve him, it is so much out of your pocket.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or cancer or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling or being unwanted, uncared for, deserted by everybody. The greatest evil is the lack of love and charity, the terrible indifference towards one's neighbor who lives at the roadside, the victim of exploitation, corruption, poverty, and disease.

When I stepped into this world, I saw that we were all burdened by a certain kind of indifference to the plight of poor people. We were burdened by an insensitivity to a legacy of racial bias. We were tolerating unfairness and unreliability in a way that burdened me and provoked me.

Just to be a functioning adult in the world, we develop all of these layers of protection. When we see homeless people, we don't cry, even though homeless people probably deserve our tears - you know, it's a horrible thing.

The world remains beset by so much human suffering, poverty and deprivation. It is in your hands to make of our world a better one for all, especially the poor, vulnerable and marginalised.

Once you experience Third World poverty, you're really changed forever, if you're at all open to it, because we're all united in our common humanity. And we are so made as to feel something for people who are in pain. It's not possible to be human and to be unaffected by what you see in the third world.

I had consumed a lot of American culture, but I was not quite prepared for the reality of American poverty.

I didn’t create poverty. This church didn’t create poverty. Poverty is not an issue, human suffering is not an issue at all, they were there before the creation of mankind.

There are levels of poverty in South Africa that are totally unacceptable.

If we wish to wash our hands of the Jews blasphemy and not share in their guilt, we have to part company with them. They must be driven from our country.

I have tried my hand at bribery, blackmail, and deceit. And I've served time for everything, cept beggin on the street.

Economic privation proceeds by easy stages, and so long as men suffer it patiently the outside world cares little.

Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference.

The problem in Guatemala is that there is no solution to the issue of human rights. The problem is militarization, it is the injust distribution of wealth. It is intolerance of the indigenous, it is discrimination and marginalization.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.

With one hand I take thousands of rubles from the poor, and with the other I hand back a few kopecks.

[The Goths'] poverty was incurable; since the most liberal donatives were soon dissipated in wasteful luxury, and the most fertile estates became barren in their hands.

Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand.

The issue of poverty is not a statistical issue. It is a human issue.

I do like to hit people-I like the explosion of power and energy, and the feeling that I am untouchable because I can hurt people. But I hate that part of myself, because it is the part of me that is the most broken

Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict.

We live in a world where economic positions - income and wealth - are very unevenly distributed, and this leads to the widespread persistence of poverty.

African famine is not a visitation of fate. It is largely man-made, and the men who made it are largely Africans.

Homeless shelters, child hunger, and child suffering have become normalized in the richest nation on earth. It's time to reset our moral compass and redefine how we measure success.