Poverty Quotes
It would evidently take more than a political regime, more than dire poverty to stop a woman from wanting to be well-dressed: it was a desire as old as the world, as old as the desire for children.
Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of the other.
I have opened up an account With God's Heart-Bank. Therefore, I see nowhere The battering waves of poverty-thoughts.
The truth is, poverty's the environment for alcoholism, and the reservations aren't rich. Maybe cleaning people up in fiction is just as dangerous as presenting them unfiltered.
As a result of the current universal benefit, the poverty rate for seniors in America is about 10%. Without the universal benefit, it would be over 50%.
Many of my contemporaries in the developed world see subsistence farming as soulful and organic, but it is a poverty trap and an environmental disaster.
...the hard work and poverty of my childhoodturned out to be my greatest asset in later years. Nothing could ever seem too hard after that.
When you've cooked the marrow of the sun and moon, The pearl is so bright you don't worry about poverty.
When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
Imagine you waking up tomorrow and you can't get a bank account; you can't get a credit union account. Everything has gone away and you're now living in poverty.
We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.
The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.
The reason that the World Trade Center got hit is because there are a lot of people living in abject poverty out there who don't have any hope for a better life.
The matter of social security and these grants is to help to address the levels of poverty in the country.
The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine souls have been blighted in the gloom of poverty the world will never know.
We live in a world where economic positions - income and wealth - are very unevenly distributed, and this leads to the widespread persistence of poverty.
We have the ability now to arrange global economic institutions so that poverty declines to a fraction of what it is now.
It is perfectly consistent - and also true - to say that the world poverty problem today is smaller (relative to world population) than before and yet also a much graver injustice.
Severe poverty is getting better by some measures, but it's also becoming ever more scandalous because it is now so easily avoidable.
Child poverty in the United States declined after the work requirement was put in there. People realized that they had to work and people went out and worked and they got off welfare.
Social security has enabled people to retire with dignity and overwhelmingly not be in poverty. We have to keep it solvent.
Poverty is curable, but it’s just not done, because it's not profitable. And that is the kind of violence that's perpetuated on humanity.
Although they are some of the hardest working folks I know, rural Americans earn, on average, $11,000 less than their urban counterparts each year. And they are more likely to live in poverty.
And sometimes people don't realize that 90 percent of the persistent poverty counties are located in rural America.
You almost have to create situations in order to write about them, so I live in a constant state of self-imposed poverty. I don't want to live any other way.
There are tens, perhaps hundreds of millions of people living in poverty and danger who might readily seek to enter a Western country if the opportunity is there.
There can be no freedom for Africa without justice; and no justice without declaring war on Africa's poverty, disease and famine with as much vehemence as we remove the tyrant and the terrorist.
Poverty can't be an excuse for bad teaching, but teaching can't be the only thing we do to combat poverty.
Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is pain. I don't want you to go through that. So what I'm trying to do is save you decades of time by bringing you the best.
Vietnam remains an underdeveloped economy with a high poverty incidence, ... party, people and army will continue to stand united and ... turn Vietnam into a developed country in the coming decades.
Fortunately, I have money that's from my life's work. But it's money that I share and used greatly to fight poverty in my country.
So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.
I grew up in a poverty-stricken neighborhood, but I didn't really know I was a deprived, poverty-stricken child until the media made me aware of it.
In a world of universal poverty The philosophers alone will be fat Against the autumn winds In an autumn that will be perpetual.
Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.
We tend to put the environment last because we think the first thing we have to do is eliminate poverty and send children to school and provide health.
After a divorce, men's biggest fear is, typically, losing their children (women's is poverty).
I think that America in general is piratical. Every time we accept a paycheck for doing almost nothing, allowing us to live above the poverty line, we're engaging in piracy.
To discover one's own spiritual poverty is to achieve a positive conquest by the spirit.
If our life is not a course of humility, self-denial, renunciation of the world, poverty of spirit, and heavenly affection, we do not live the lives of Christians.