Best 2723 quotes in «poverty quotes» category

Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites.

Bobby Kennedy is so concerned with poverty because he didn't have any as a kid.

Boasting is always an advertisement of poverty.

Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.

Boredom is the keynote of poverty — of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with — for where there is no money there is no change of any kind, not of scene or of routine. To be able to break out of its dark brown sameness.

Both poverty and wealth are excellent things, because they are extremes, but the middle ground is damaging to the soul.

Bush senior used to say that we have more will than wallet. So he urged the country to attack poverty with a thousand points of light, none of which could be eaten.

But ask yourself this Eragon: If gods exist, have they been good custodians of alagaesia? Death, sickness, poverty, tyranny and countless other miseries stalk the land. If this is the handiwork of divine beings, then they are to be rebelled against and overthrown, not given obeisance, obedience, and reverance.

By doing good, we do well.

By helping the poor, we must be able to remove their poverty. But extending help to one here and one there in the form of providing food will not remove poverty.

Capitalism, the ogre of those protesting Wall Street, has suffered a public relations crisis in the wake of the global economic collapse. But any remedy to the systemic corruption that led to the collapse should not displace recognition that capitalism creates wealth. Capitalism, and no other economic system, has raised millions from poverty around the world.

Capitalism, and capitalism alone, has rescued the human race from degrading poverty, rampant sickness and early death.

Care work is still primarily done by women for free in families and for poverty wages in the market, and this is a major reason that worldwide women are the mass of the poor and the poorest of the poor.

Capitalism will continue to eliminate mass poverty in more and more places and to an increasingly marked extent if it is merely permitted to do so.

Carbon negative power plants can provide energy while they overcome poverty and change economic values in the right direction.

Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor.

Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear.

Cheerless poverty has no harder trial than this, that it makes men the subject of ridicule. [Lat., Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se Quam quod ridiculos homines facit.]

China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.

Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair.

Concentrate on poverty and you will be poor.

Cinna wishes to seem poor, and is poor

Complaint is poverty.

Congress Mukt Bharat BJP ka naara nahi hai, jan jan ka sankalp hai. Be it dynasty politics, nepotism, corruption, communalism, divisions in society or poverty, getting freedom from all this is what I mean by a Congress Mukt Bharat.

Communism will never be defeated by atomic bombs. Our greatest defense against Communism is to take offensive action on behalf of justice and righteousness. We must seek to remove conditions of poverty, injustice, and racial discrimination.

Connectivity is productivity - whether it's in a modern office or an underdeveloped village.

Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.

Contrary to age-old prejudices, the wealth of the rich is not the cause of the poverty of the poor, but helps to alleviate that poverty.

Corruption is Africa's greatest problem. Not poverty. Not lack of riches. Not racism.

Development is a lot cheaper than sending soldiers.

Dame Poverty gave me my name, And Pain godfathered me.

Devotees are not impressed by the poverty or wealth in material sense in any way; what impresses is devotion.

Criminality is always the result of poverty.

Desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer. Lack of desire is poverty.

Development requires major source of unfreedom: poverty as well as tyranny, poor economic opportunities as well as systematic social deprivation, neglect of public facilities as well as intolerance or overactivity of repressive states.

Don't be deceived when our Revolution has been finally stamped out and they tell you things are better now Even if there's no poverty to be seen because the poverty's been hidden even if you ever got more wages and could afford to buy more of these new and useless goods which these new industries foist on you and even if it seems to you that you never had so much that is only the slogan of those who still have much more than you

Do not complain then of your poverty, my daughter, - we only complain of that which is unwelcome, and if poverty is unwelcome to you, you are no longer poor in spirit.

EJECTION, n. An approved remedy for the disease of garrulity. It is also much used in cases of extreme poverty.

Easterly, a celebrated economist, presents one side in what has become an ongoing debate with fellow star-economist Jeffrey Sachs about the role of international aid in global poverty. Easterly argues that existing aid strategies have not and will not reduce poverty, because they don't seriously take into account feedback from those who need the aid and because they perpetuate western colonial tendencies.

Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.

Ending poverty and ensuring sustainability are the defining challenges of our time. Energy is central to both of them.

Drinking Garri doesnt mean you're poor, but allowing the garri to swell-up before drinking is Poverty

Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.

Education is the key to opportunity. It's a ticket out of poverty.

Environmentalism is a luxury. Just like being a vegetarian is a luxury. When you have to worry about eating - you're not going to be worried about where the food's coming from, or who made your shoes. Poverty, whether planned or not planned, is a way of making environmentalism moot.

Fasting will break poverty from your life.

Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor

Every nation on the Earth that embraces market economics and the free enterprise system is pulling millions of its people out of poverty. The free enterprise system creates prosperity, not denies it.