Impoverishes Quotes

What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life. - Octavio Paz

Theft of cultural property, no matter where in the world, impoverishes us all. - Chris Swecker

The system impoverishes people before it helps them. We have to do better than that. - Barbara Lyons

Barring people from the country because of their ideas skews and impoverishes political debate inside the United States. The government should not be using the immigration laws as instruments of censorship. - Jameel Jaffer

AIDS has become a major development crisis. It kills millions of adults in their prime... It fractures and impoverishes families, weakens workforces, turns millions of children into orphans, and threatens the social and economic fabric of communities and the political stability of nations. - Kofi Annan