Poverty Quotes

Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a mystery.

Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.

It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience.

Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars.

[Albert] Camus' was born in Algeria of French nationality, and was assimilated into the French colony, although the French colonists rejected him absolutely because of his poverty.

I shall not accept more than I need while others in the world have less than they need.

Who after wine, talks of wars hardships or of poverty.

I sold a book six years after I left an MFA program. In between, there was a lot of endurance of poverty and a lot of fighting off doubt. It's all a part of the process of being or becoming a writer.

Food banking as well as other antihunger programs do a good job of managing poverty by alleviating its worst symptom, hunger.

Going in is really more of an acknowledgment that kids in poverty, in their situations, can get out of it, and it doesn't always come from sports.

As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.

I want us to raise the national minimum wage, because people who live in poverty should not - who work full-time should not still be in poverty.

It's outrageous to line your pockets off the misery of the poor; It's outrageous, the crimes some human beings must endure.

Let's also, my friends, let's raise the minimum wage and support the 5 for 15 so you don't live in poverty.

it is impossible to attack the problem of poverty in the industrialized or the developing world effectively unless the extent to which poverty is a women's problem is recognized.

The trouble with poverty, as an issue, is that it has basically exhausted the patience of the general public.

My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.

This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes tocondemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth!

Ordinary citizens are so accepting of what is going on, grumbling when their material interests were affected, but seemingly accepting the spiritual poverty so characteristic of today.

The majority represent a mass of cowards, willing to accept him who mirror its own soul and mind poverty.

Libraries can be of indispensable service in lifting the dead weight of poverty and ignorance.

My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty.

To be able to proclaim the Good News to the poor we must know what is poverty.

Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.

How many times we have picked up in the streets human beings who had been living like animals and were longing to die like angels!

Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.

Even today, if my title hadn't been given back to me and I was in such poverty where I had to go and find a job, I would have done that.

The ultimate solution to POVERTY is found in the COMPASSION of God's people.

We nationalize hydrocarbons, so now the economy is improving and the fight against poverty is also improving in Bolivia.

There are many programs specifically aimed at helping people in poverty start a business.

It's an objective fact, that if you want to solve some of these huge, kind of bigger problems of extreme poverty, you have to include the women. They're the ones who will get it done.

Those who have not, and live in want, are a menace, Ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues.

The crime should be punished no matter whether poverty or wealth caused it to occur, because the crime is wrong.

The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty bothers.

Great numbers of Asian Americans do not fit the model minority or 'tiger family' stereotypes, living instead in multigenerational poverty far from the mainstream.

If the Fed had a war on abortion like its war on poverty or war on drugs, within five years men would be having abortions!

If you have a problem where you have just poverty, long-term insurance benefits for an emergency aren't going to solve that either. You have got to fix the social safety net.

I would like to solemnly reaffirm, that poverty is not a fatality.

Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.

In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime.

Poverty is relative, and, therefor not ignoble.

Do we have the will to make poverty history?

Give me, indulgent gods with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene, No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No well-bred hate, or servile grandeur, there.

Get kids out of poverty. Poverty is devastating.

The environmental movement could do a better job incorporating the message about the connection between poverty and environmental degradation, and building that message at the grassroots level.

Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places.

Poverty is the fundamental cause of most of the physical, moral and economic ills of humanity.

A person born with an instinct for poverty.

If we are looking for one single action which will enable the poor to overcome their poverty, I would focus on credit

The current financial crisis makes it very clears that the system that we have isn't really working, and this is the right time for us to undo things and build them in a new way.