Poverty Quotes

Learn to be pleased with everything, with wealth so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to

It could be that one of the greatest hindrances to evangelism is the poverty of our own experience.

Poverty is not an act of God. It is the result of flawed policy, and that is a moral challenge.

Capitalism is the greatest poverty-fighting machine in the history of mankind, and I'm proud of the role I've played in it.

If we want the whole world to be rich, we need to start loving wealth. In the difference between poverty and plenty, the problem is the pverty, not the difference. Wealth is good.

Shallow understanding accompanies poor compassion; great understanding goes with great compassion.

I know that, throughout the world, there are good men and women concerned with the greatest challenges facing society today - poverty, illiteracy, and disease.

He (Lyndon B. Johnson) wanted to see poverty, so he came to see my team (1964 New York Mets).

The good news is we have the technology and the tools to alleviate poverty on a global scale. All that is standing in our way is education and will.

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.

Look at your own poverty welcome it cherish it don't be afraid share your death because thus you will share your love and your life

A new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken...

The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.

Poverty hath slain a thousand, but riches have slain ten thousand. They are very uncertain, they promise that which they cannot perform, neither can they afford a contented mind.

The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty.

Poverty is not just a material problem. Poverty is something wider: it is about powerlessness, about being deprived of basic opportunities and freedom of choice.

Poverty is when large efforts produce small results. Wealth is when small efforts produce large results.

The deep inequalities that persist are visible reminders of the effects of apartheid and colonialism. Until these scars are healed, the vision of our Constitution will not have been achieved.

By the numbers, by all the official records, here at the confluence of history, of racism, of poverty, and economic power, this is what our lives are worth: nothing.

Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.

There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism.

True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.

In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

I have come to believe that one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger are more bearable than injustice.

I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem.

A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created

Aggressive capitalism leads the world, and we can see the results, especially in Europe: more poverty for the vast majority, and more riches for a few.

Brazil has a lot of issues that are similar to a lot of countries in Latin America, but the dominant issue Brazil is dealing with is poverty and political corruption.

Indeed, in US politics, 'poverty', along with 'welfare', 'unwed mothers' and 'crime', became code words for blacks.

Acting on our own, by ourselves, we cannot establish justice throughout the world, but joined with other free nations, we can ... assist the developing nations to throw off the yoke of poverty.

I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me

Black child poverty is higher. As I write in the epilogue, "Yes we can. No he didn't. President [Barack] Obama didn't push black people backward, but he missed the opportunity to move us forward."

He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!

There are 200 million poor in the world who would gladly take the vow of poverty if they could eat, dress and have a home like I do

To educate girls is to reduce poverty.

The thing that distinguishes permanent poverty is bad character.

Extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere.

Three were the fates. Poverty that chains; gray drudgery that grinds the hope away, and gaping ignorance that starves the soul.

The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.

A nobler example, because a less personal one, of the pinch of poverty, is when it prevents the accomplishment of some cherished scheme for the benefit of the human race.

Let me first say that I don't think the millennium target of cutting global poverty in half is an impossible or abstract target. I think it is a real and achievable goal.

The social contract is starting to unravel in many countries.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

Our opponents say more children are living in poverty than when we came into office. And that's probably right.

We need to realize that poverty doesn't only consist of being hungry for bread, but rather it is a tremendous hunger for human dignity. We need to love and to be someone for someone else