Best 2723 quotes in «poverty quotes» category

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

The thing that distinguishes permanent poverty is bad character.

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

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

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

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.

The tyranny of relativism is the spiritual poverty of our time

The ultimate solution to POVERTY is found in the COMPASSION of God's people.

The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation.

The war on poverty programs help address the pain of poverty.

The way - the principle way that human beings had gotten out of extreme poverty is free trade.

The whole world is put in motion by the wish for riches and the dread of poverty.

The world is dealing with issues of immigration, deindustrialization, and poverty.

The world remains beset by so much human suffering, poverty and deprivation. It is in your hands to make of our world a better one for all, especially the poor, vulnerable and marginalised.

The worst nightmare for al Qaeda is to come into a community that feels supported and has hope.

This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.

The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty.

They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?

This detachment (poverty, chastity, etc.) must not be mere amputation; everything which is shaken off must be simultaneously found again at a higher level.

The worst effect of sin is within and is manifest not in poverty, and pain, and bodily defacement, but in the discrowned faculties, the unworthy love, the low ideal, the brutalized and enslaved spirit.

The worst thing about poverty is not the actual living of it, but the shame of it.

They're the problems of poverty, of the rights of the individual, of the changes brought about by technology. They're the ones that count, more than religion!

They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.

This growing poverty in the midst of growing population constitutes a permanent menace to peace. And not only to peace, but also to democratic institutions and personal liberty For overpopulation is not compatible with freedom.

Those peculiar social sensibilities nourished by our own peculiar political principles, while they enhance the true dignity of a prosperous American, do but minister to the added wretchedness of the unfortunate; first, by prohibiting their acceptance of what little random relief charity may offer; and, second, by furnishing them with the keenest appreciation of the smarting distinction between their ideal of universal equality and their grind-stone experience of the practical misery and infamy of poverty.

This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.

Those born into poverty or on the margins of society require our extra support to realize their dreams.

Those who automatically say that the social pathology of the ghetto is due to poverty discrimination and the like cannot explain why such pathology was far less prevalent in the 1950s, when poverty and discrimination were worse. But there were not nearly as many grievance mongers and race hustlers then.

Those who have not, and live in want, are a menace, Ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues.

Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.

This so much joy! This so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!

Those who are driven by poverty, those who're free from material worries hunger exhausting labor a joyless existence ask the same question, the question of meaning.

Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars.

Thoughts and words form your mental image. And since we become what we picture be sure your thoughts and words express prosperity and blessing rather than poverty and defeat.

Today they say that we are free, only to be chained in poverty.

Though virtue give a ragged livery, she gives a golden cognizance; if her service make thee poor, blush not. Thy poverty may disadvantage thee, but not dishonor thee.

Time and again we’ve seen that reducing poverty comes down to economic opportunity-not just connecting the poor to services like banking, but ensuring they can be producers on fair terms in the global economy.

To be able to proclaim the Good News to the poor we must know what is poverty.

To be conscious of being poor while praying for riches is to be rewarded with that which you are conscious of being, namely, poverty. Prayers to be successful must be claimed and appropriated. Assume the positive consciousness of the thing desired.

Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.

Through periodic increases over the next three decades under Democratic and Republican administrations alike, the nation achieved one of the fundamental goals of a just society, which is that no one who works for a living should have to live in poverty.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

To discover one's own spiritual poverty is to achieve a positive conquest by the spirit.

To educate girls is to reduce poverty.