Poverty Quotes
Nowhere in the world, in no act of genocide, in no war, are so many people killed per minute, per hour and per day as those who are killed by hunger and poverty on our planet.
Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor.
The early Church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.
Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts
The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.
If there is neither excessive wealth nor immoderate poverty in a nation, then justice may be said to prevail.
Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride.
A grateful person is rich in contentment. An ungrateful person suffers in the poverty of endless discontentment.
Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.
What He was, He laid aside; what He was not, He assumed. He takes upon Himself the poverty of my flesh so that I may receive the riches of His divinity.
Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine.
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.
Let us become like Christ, since Christ became like us. He assumed the worse that He might give us the better; He became poor that we through His poverty might be rich.
The poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a different social order.
We tend to put the environment last because we think the first thing we have to do is eliminate poverty. But you can't reduce poverty in a vacuum. You are doing it in an environment.
Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.
For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.
The Curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.
Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.
As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.
Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life . . .
Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.
If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn't go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief.
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
It is not great wealth in a few individuals that proves a country is prosperous, but great general wealth evenly distributed among the people. . .
There's another kind of poverty that only rich men know, a moral malnutrition that starves their very souls.
I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty.
There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even peace.
Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.
Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.
Don't ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He's too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue.
How the American right managed to convince itself that the programs to alleviate poverty are responsible for the consequences of poverty will someday be studied as a notorious mass illusion.
