Poverty Quotes
If you have a poverty of heart then you are the poorest among the poor.
P3- every simple need to which an institutional answer is found permit the invention of a new class of poor and a new definition of poverty
Being broke didn't seem so awful as it had yesterday, being broke but being at peace with the world.("Don't Wait Up For Me Tonight")
Begging is much more difficult than it looks. Contrary to popular belief, it’s a high art form that takes years of dedicated practice to master.
Why else do you think we are permanently at war in various regions all over the world? And why is it the citizens of this country, one of the richest on earth, get poorer each year?
The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially
We cannot fight against the poverty and hunger in the world
Anyone who said money didn't matter had never had to count the coins that fell between the cushions of the couch.
Poor people have poor options. Chavez found the Army almost by accident, and had found it a true open of security and opportunity and fellowship and respect.
His smile is a stranger resting on a haunted face, only coming out for poisons turning him into a ghost.
A celebrity farts, and everyone endures, but the unpopular will be thrased to death.
If you tempted a poor man with a fortune, who could blame the fellow for taking what he could?
A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that.
Poverty has a way of taking the edge off principles. Hunger can blunt them altogether.
Some people in orthodox churches in Africa take poverty as a path that leads to heaven, making christianity look unattractive.
Even though he'd been born into a country unshackling itself from its colonial masters, even though he'd lived through nearly twenty years of freedom, nothing much changed for you when you were poor.
I start to think, 'It's awful being too poor to even buy my own dress for homecoming.' But that's instantly swept away by another thought: 'I'm so lucky that someone cates enough to loan me a dress.
Honesty is not a virtue, it is a luxury. Most, who struggle to put bread on the table, face this question every day. And hunger wins this game almost every time, beta (son).
She was not granted the luxury of forgetting her lower middle-class existence where life hangs by an unseen thread to every hope and where every slash of disappointment shrinks the life further.
The forces of justice had finally come to Annawadi. That the beneficiaries were horses was a source of bemusement to Sunil and the road boys.
Rich people is people who only cares for themselves, and their money but, poor people doesn't care how much money they have because they have a big heart
Half of the world population is dying from poverty and hunger and still you think you are not rich enough.
Poverty scrapes these homes down until they all look the same, and they all have in common the absence of things that ought to be there. I might as well have been at one place all my life.
Pursue money while you're alive, so that poverty will not pursue you when you're old.
Pope John Paul II once said as well, “Lebanon is a message more than it is a country.” Now this diversity has turned into fragmentation and the richness into poverty, awaiting a miraculous remedy.
Democracy is supposed to be ‘of the people, by the people and for the people’. Capitalism is ‘of the capitalist, for the capitalist’. Period.
Go home now, ” says I. “Keep away from the saloons. Save your money. You are going to need it.”“What are we going to need it for?” asks a voice from the crowd.“For guns and ammunition, ” says I.
Those who were raised in poverty and have been successful to overcome the shame of it, understands the hardship of those who are left behind.
What do you see out there?” I ask. “Pittsburgh, ” he replies. Now I laugh. “No, young man. What you see is hell with the lid taken off.” — Mother Jones
Governments neither help us to get out of poverty and hunger, nor let us die. It is time that we must pick one.
No matter what they say in the conferences and symposiums about poverty and hunger in the world. At the end, they are the first one forgetting us.
You can't change things. That's life. Poor stays poor, rich says rich, and those two, they will never meet.
Our possessions are not ours- God has given them to us to cultivate, that we may make them fruitful and profitable in His Service, and so doing we shall please Him.
Be patient, you are in good company. Our Lord Himself, our Lady, the apostles, and countless saints, both men and women, have been poor.
Misery and poverty of a nation is associated with the conscious of its people not leaders.
Everyday 25, 000 people die from poverty and hunger. And we have forgotten that they are also human.
May we show great concern to those of great concern to God.
The Rooster Coop was doing its work. Servants have to keep other servants from becoming innovators, experimenters or entrepreneurs. The coop is guarded from the inside.
I've never heard anyone come back from downtown Baltimore waxing poetic about the authenticity of poverty.
The handholds for hope are there for all of us but are made plainest to those in poverty, for whom survival actually depends on hope in their God.
A big hole in a poor child’s shoe is the simplest evidence to condemn the society he lives in.