Best 2723 quotes in «poverty quotes» category

We prefer poverty in liberty than riches in slavery.

We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra...

We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty.

We should not minimize the great outstanding service of Eugenics for critical and diagnostic investigations. It demonstrates ... that uncontrolled fertility is universally correlated with disease, poverty, overcrowding and the transmission of hereditable traits.

We think of poverty as a condition simply meaning a lack of funds, no money, but when one sees fifth, sixth, and seventh generation poor, it is clear that poverty is as complicated as high finance.

We, who have so much, must do more to help those in need. And most of all, we must live simply, so that others may simply live.

We say that money talks, but it speaks a broken, poverty-stricken language. Hearts talk better, clearer, and with wider intelligence.

We should raise the minimum wage so that no one who works full time has to live in poverty

We tend to put the environment last because we think the first thing we have to do is eliminate poverty. But you can't reduce poverty in a vacuum. You are doing it in an environment.

What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.

What hurts me most is poverty, and that's what led me to become a rebel.

what is life worth if one has nothing to give away? This lack, it seems to me, must be the sharpest pang of poverty.

We tried to provide more for the poor and produced more poor instead. We tried to remove the barriers to escape poverty, and inadvertently built a trap.

What is the good news to the poor? Christ took your poverty at the cross and gave you the riches of Abraham. The chains of poverty have been broken at the cross.

What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.

What kind of a society are we going to have if it consists of highly paid people doing high-value-added work - and masses of unemployed?

What we've undergone in recent decades worldwide has been totally insane, and all of this is a result of capitalism. The workforce in Latin America was treated as a vulgar instrument for capital accumulation. Mechanisms of exploitation were imposed, such as outsourcing, labor mediation, and the like.The results are plain to see: greater inequality in Latin America; unemployment is higher than in previous decades; we haven't resolved the problem of poverty; we've lost a great deal of sovereignty.

When poverty is more disgraceful than even vice, is not morality cut to the quick?

When the men of antiquity realized their wishes, benefits were conferred by them on the people. If they did not realize their wishes, they cultivated their personal character, and became illustrious in the world. If poor, they attended to their own virtue in solitude; if advanced to dignity, they made the whole empire virtuous as well.

When tiny, tiny things start happening a million times, it becomes a large thing. It lays down the foundation of a strong economic base. With women participating in building this economic base, it becomes the foundation for better social and economic future.

When we take our eyes off the whirl of day-to-day activity and concentrate on honoring Him and following in His way, we find a consistent peace that carries us through both plenty and poverty.

When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.

Where you find obesity, you'll find poverty. It's a reflection of the South's struggle to raise its standard of living.

What are these so-called austerity measures? What do they really bring? Oh, they bring a lot more poverty. Oh, they bring a worse GDP. Oh, they bring more unemployment.

What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!

When a jumbo jet crashes, we will rush in with assistance, but we forget that each day 30,000 children die unnecessarily from poverty-related preventable causes - equivalent to 100 jumbo jets crashing every day.

When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.

When a society lacks God, even prosperity is joined by a terrible spiritual poverty.

When I am asked, "What, in your view, is the worst human rights problem in the world today?" I reply: "Absolute poverty." This is not the answer most journalists expect. It is neither sexy nor legalistic. But it is true.

When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.

When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.

When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will

Whether we live in poverty or prosperity, we can still live generously.

While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.

While the Taliban connives with foreign terrorists, the Afghan people suffer from poverty, drought and hunger.

Whether it's someone struggling with mental illness, someone struggling with poverty or struggling with their own limitations in their social behaviors, for some reason, I'm drawn to characters like that.

Who, being loved, is poor?

Who after wine, talks of wars hardships or of poverty.

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

Who hateth me but for my happiness? Or who is honored now but for his wealth? Rather had I, a Jew, be hated thus, Than pitied in a Christian poverty.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

Who takes the blame: the leader who talks of poverty but lives in luxury, or the poor who choose a leader of that type?

With my union project in my hand, from town to town, from one end of France to the other, to talk to the workers who do not know how to read and to those who do not have the time to read....I will go find them in their workshops; in their garrets and even, if needed, in their taverns, and there, face to face with their poverty, I will compel them, in spite of themselves, to escape from this frightful poverty which is degrading and killing them.

Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.

Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.

Yes I graduated from high school. Welfare. Temporary work, please. What is my problem? I want to eat.

Yes, sin, sickness and disease, spiritual death, poverty and everything else that's of the devil once ruled us. But now, bless God, we rule them - for this is the Day of Dominion!

You are destined to reign in life. You are called by the Lord to be a success, to enjoy wealth, to enjoy health, and to enjoy a life of victory. It is not the Lord's desire that you live a life of defeat, poverty, and failure.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

You can never have international peace as long as you have national poverty.