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The poor are the human manure in which grow the harvests of life, the harvests of joy which the rich reap.

The poor have been sent to the front lines of a federal budget deficit reduction war that few other groups were drafted to fight.

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.

The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility

The poverty we see in America is now too widespread, and too complex, for easy fixes. But I do think we can reimagine many of our institutions and can create new ones in ways that would be effective. We could, for example, create social insurance systems, similar to social security, such as that we went through in 2008-9. We could create a financial transaction tax, oil profit taxes and a fairer estate tax system, and we could plow much of the revenue raised from these into job training programs, into better education infrastructure, into an expanded Earned Income Tax Credit.

The poverty line is like the age of consent: if you find yourself parsing exactly where it is, you’ve probably already done something very, very wrong.

The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of the weak by the strong, which leave so many "in shallows and in miseries," are the decrees of a large, far-seeing benevolence.

The poverty of yesterday was less squalid than the poverty we purchase with our industry today. Fortunes were smaller then as well.

The poverty of the West is far more difficult to solve than the poverty of India.

The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age.

The problem in Peru is not so much poverty - it is inequality. The essence of the discourse in 2005 and 2006 is the same one that we have maintained in 2010 and 2011. My macroeconomic policy is to strengthen and ensure economic growth but with social inclusion.

The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.

The real solution to the problem of poverty consists in finding how to increase the employment and earning power of the poor.

There are a lot of Egyptians who live below the poverty line and are preoccupied with meeting basic needs. Therefore, we have to create tangible benefits from nature conservation. Only through economic incentives will we convince people to protect habitats, wildlife, geological formations, cultural heritage sites, etc. We need local communities to cooperate with us, not against us!

There are a lot of stats and a strong correlation between dropout rates and crime as well as poverty.

There are levels of poverty in South Africa that are totally unacceptable.

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

There are millions and millions of people who are thrown in the midst of poverty and starvation. Animals don't die of starvation, only human beings.

There are no causes of poverty. It is the rest state, that which happens when you don't do anything. If you want to experience poverty, just do nothing, and it will come…. We should ask what are the causes of wealth and try to recreate and reproduce them.

There are no causes of poverty. To ask what causes poverty is like asking what causes coldit is the absence of energy. Similarly poverty is the absence of wealth. We should ask, ‘what are the causes of wealth?’

There are no riches like the sweetness of content, nor poverty comparable to the want of patience.

There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.

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 are wars and poverty and so on - it's based on fear. You can cure that with your being by not being afraid.This is quotes copyright © By Pumpkin Limited

The reason that the World Trade Center got hit is because there are a lot of people living in abject poverty out there who don't have any hope for a better life.

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

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

There is no good way of measuring poverty.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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