Poverty Quotes
How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics.
Compared to the rest of the world, it's like we're living in Disneyland.
I don't know. I got nothing. No house, no people, no place. Maybe that's troubles. Don't I say?
Do not avoid doing what you love because you fear that it will only result in poverty or lack. If you fear this, then this is exactly what will happen.
To be poor is to suffer. It's the kind of suffering that freezes the heart stone cold.
A human being can only take so much when their basic rights as a citizen of the earth are being denied to them – or sold at a high cost.
We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.
It would take me a long time to understand how systems inflict pain and hardship in people's lives and to learn that being kind in an unjust system is not enough.
Nobody is responsible for your sorrows and poverty, not even the devil. It is the work of the enemies of time that lives in some men, and their names are, 'Laziness and Procrastination'.
POVERTY CRIME When you push peopleInto the throes of povertyThey tend to think their value lowAnd so do they yours They will not think it graveTo lose their low valued livesAnd so will they not yours
People in third world countries aren't living in poverty, they're living pretty much as nature intended us to live it and putting us all to shame
If Hemingway is to believed, poverty is an invaluable school for a writer. Poverty makes a man clear-sighted. And so on. It's interesting that Hemingway realized this only when he became rich.
I believe that the emphasis on curbing population growth diverts attention from the more vital issue of pursuing policies that allow the population to take care of itself.
Suffering is a cutting edge political design.
The poor love life as passionately as the rich do. Perhaps more, for the effort it takes to cling to it.
When giving money to the amputated, you must put it directly into their pockets.
I decided I would go with them, but it would be at my father's house that I would eat. I would share his food, and his poverty.
If the apostles reminded even Paul himself to remember the poor (Galatians 2:10), then surely the rest of us need such a reminder.
In rural and struggling Lexington, Virginia, Lee's new postwar home, one writer joked darkly dollars were so scarce that they had to be introduced to one another when they met on Main Street.
Poverty is what you see in the eyes of a Black child living in the squatter camp.Matsime Simon Mohapi
By defining the problem as "hunger, " the emergency food system is helping to direct our attention away from the more fundamental problem of poverty, and the even more basic problem of inequality.
Not all developing countries are the same.
So I say a name, even if self-bestowed, is better than a number. In the register of the potter's field I shall soon have both. What wealth!
This is the basis for the most important critique of microfinance. The poor are not entrepreneurs. The idea that more than a few will turn tiny loans into a viable business is simply unrealistic.
Sometimes being poor means having to choose between your principles and your survival.
When everyone is poor you don't know you're poor. My father worked so some of the boys thought I was actually rich.
The tricky thing about the hood is that you’re always working, working, working, and you feel like something’s happening, but really nothing’s happening at all.
The world has been taught to be scared of him, but the reality is that he is scared of the world because he has none of the tools necessary to cope with it.
Free yourself from mental slavery. Break those invisible chains your masters put on your spiritual neck to control you
The truth is, Japan is headed for crisis. We are in the hands of greedy businessmen and weak politicians. Such people will see to it poverty grows every day.
Poverty is apt to strike suddenly like influenza, it is well to have a few memories of extravagance in store for bad times.
Looking at these people now from behind the counter, made her feel like that little girl again, the deprived child that used to press her nose on the glass, peering at things she could never have.
Instead he was grabbing at whatever was available in this system that no longer held the old predictable relationship between effort and result as true
They don't know what poor is. They don't know that poverty is a sharp knife carving away at you. They don't know what it does to the body. To a mind.
Poverty was a dog whose teeth sank deep.
How was a boy who'd tasted poverty ever expected to choose the poorer road?
Can the law get blood out of a stone? I haven't any money.
The poor who commit murder, rape and robbery are not only not starving, they have far more material things than the word ‘poverty’ suggests.
