Best 2723 quotes in «poverty quotes» category

Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty

Sometimes, when you grow up in one of these poverty-stricken neighborhoods where the educational system isn't the best, you don't realize that you have any choices.

So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty.

SO the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, "Loneliness is the ultimate poverty

Spring cold is like the poverty of a poor man who has had a fortune left him - better days are coming.

Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors.

... statism systematically violates the rights of individuals and is, therefore, immoral. Because it suppresses the mind and violates men's rights, it thereby causes abysmal poverty and is utterly impractical.

Stupas protect beings from 5 major disasters: war, epidemic diseases, famine, pollution, n poverty.

Submission to poverty is the unpardonable sin against the body. Submission to unhappiness is the unpardonable sin against the spirit.

Sufficiency isn't two steps up from poverty or one step short of abundance. It isn't a measure of barely enough or more than enough. Sufficiency isn't an amount at all. It is an experience, a context we generate, a declaration, a knowing that there is enough, and that we are enough.

Take every penny you have set aside for aid for Tanzania and spend it in the UK, explaining to people the facts and causes of poverty.

That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.

Terrorism is fueled by hate. The tragedy is that there are countless young children who are being taught to hate. Terrorism is usually fueled also by poverty.

Taking responsible steps to reduce poverty is not merely a moral imperative but an economic one.

Terrorism really flourishes in areas of poverty, despair and hopelessness, where people see no future

Thanks to the Communist Party of China, we now know the path to poverty alleviation is Capitalism.

That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside the door is extreme poverty

That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.

The amount of poverty and suffering required for a Rockefeller to emerge, and the amount of depravity entailed in the accumulation of a fortune of such magnitude, are left out of the picture, and it is not always possible for the popular forces to expose this clearly.

That which is inherently nonfinanceable is financed. That which is inherently financeable is not financed. And the illogic of poverty amidst eagerness and ability to produce plenty goes on.

The accumulation of wealth is a process which is of itself morally neutral. True, as Christianity teaches, riches bring temptations. But then so does poverty.

The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.

The best anti-poverty program is a world-class education.

The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.

The best way to help the poor is to make them uncomfortable in their own poverty.

The cause of poverty is not scarcity. It is fear and small thinking.

The best writing deadlines are poverty and death.

The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well-off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery almost without noticing them.

The Buddhist version of poverty is a situation where you have nothing to contribute.

The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need, it's the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you'd do anything to lift that burden.

The capitalist system has lifted mankind out of mass poverty. It is this system that in the last century, in the last generation, even in the last decade, has acceleratively been changing the face of the world, and has provided the masses of mankind with amenities that even kings did not possess or imagine a few generations ago.

The biggest fight in my life is not in boxing. The biggest fight in my life is how to end poverty in my country.

The camera could be a very powerful instrument against discrimination, against poverty, against racism.

The chief problem of the low-income farmers is poverty.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

The combined efforts of millions of concerned citizens could do wonders to help the impoverished. The American people are ready for action!

The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

The country is in the worst conditions ever in its history. It's unjustifiable that in a country with the largest petroleum reserves on the planet, 70% of the food we eat is imported ... that there are 700,000 families in extreme poverty who go to bed hungry every night.

The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.

The crime should be punished no matter whether poverty or wealth caused it to occur, because the crime is wrong.

The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resented injustice, the other is merely a momentary passion soon appeased.

The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.

The Curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.

The dangerous time when mechanical voices, radios, telephones, take the place of human intimacies, and the concept of being in touch with millions brings a greater and greater poverty in intimacy and human vision.

The day someone quits school he is condemning himself to a future of poverty.

The debt-habit is the twin brother of poverty.

The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty and therefore its inability to mobilize out of its own resources even the barest of minimum resources to address any of the public health crises that Africa faces.

The elimination of profit, whatever methods may be resorted to for its execution, must transform society into a senseless jumble. It would create poverty for all.

The English are probably more capable than most peoples of making revolutionary change without bloodshed. In England, if anywhere,it would be possible to abolish poverty without destroying liberty.

The essential in this time of moral poverty is to create enthusiasm.