Best 2723 quotes in «poverty quotes» category

There is a deep sadness to American poverty, greater than the sadness of any other kind. It's because America has such an ideology of success.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

There is another form of poverty! It is the spiritual poverty of our time, which afflicts the so-called richer countries particularly seriously.

There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value.

There is a thought that poverty is a public policy failure; poverty is man-made by action and non-action: poverty can be eliminated.

There is direct correlation between a society lacking in artistic vision to lack of social conscience, i.e., crime, poverty, and senseless, violent atrocities, materialism.

There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing.

There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship.

There is no good way of measuring poverty.

There is no poverty in life when you have a loving, peaceful, happy family. They are a gift which cannot be bought nor traded for gold.

There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.

There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

There is no such thing as an acceptable level of unemployment, because hunger is not acceptable, poverty is not acceptable, poor health is not acceptable, and a ruined life is not acceptable.

There is nothing like widespread poverty to boost a country's equality index.

There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it.

There is nothing perfectly secure but poverty.

There is so much poverty and desperation in South Sudan, and yet each side is militarily equipped.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

There is so much joy in native culture but so much poverty. It's very disturbing.

There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.

There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.

There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.

There's conflict on every continent, the poverty rate is increasing, the environment's a wreck, and I'm not supposed to be affected?

There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

The results of the Great Society experiments started coming in and began showing that, for all its good intentions, the War on Poverty was causing irreparable damage to the very communities it was designed to help.

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty

The rich are never as possessed by their riches as the poor are by their poverty.

The richness of God’s Word ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.

The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life-until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty.

These guys [liberals] will never tire of spending our money and will never hold themselves accountable for their boondoggles. For them the failure of $5 trillion to eradicate poverty simply means that we haven't spent enough money. Ditto with education. The solution is always more money. No amount of empirical evidence will shake their socialist theology.

The scientific community having made a rapid ascent from deep poverty to great affluence, from academe's cloisters to Washington's high councils, still tends to be a bit excitable - not unlike a nouveau riche in a fluctuating market.

The state, by relieving idleness, improvidence, or misconduct from punishment, and depriving abstinence and foresight of the reward, which have been provided for them by nature, may indeed destroy wealth, but most certainly will aggravate poverty.

The social contract is starting to unravel in many countries.

The Southern Poverty Law Center is a hate group rivaled only by the Democrat Party. The Southern Poverty Law Center... Folks, if there's anything you should ignore - and there are a lot of things you should ignore - put the Southern Poverty Law Center on the list.

The spinning wheel and the spinning wheel alone will solve, if anything will solve, the problem of the deepening poverty of India.

The thing that distinguishes permanent poverty is bad character.

The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.

The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by them, it's because they do not know them

The times talk to us of so much poverty in the world and this is a scandal. Poverty in the world is a scandal. In a world where there is so much wealth, so many resources to feed everyone, it is unfathomable that there are so many hungry children, that there are so many children without an education, so many poor persons. Poverty today is a cry.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

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

The traveler without money will sing before the robber. [Lat., Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.]

The truth is, terrorism flourishes in places of injustice rather than in places of poverty.

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.

The truth is, the greatest tool to lift children and families from poverty is one that decreases the probability of child poverty by 82%. But it isn't a government spending program. It's called marriage.

The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.

The two great tests of character are wealth and poverty.