Best 2723 quotes in «poverty quotes» category

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 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.

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 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 anti-poverty program is a world-class education.

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

The best writing deadlines are poverty and death.

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

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

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

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

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

The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.

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

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 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 time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.

The debt-habit is the twin brother 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 ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry but they cannot kill ignorance, illnesses, poverty or hunger.

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.

The extent of poverty in the world is much exaggerated. Our sensitiveness makes half our poverty; our fears--anxieties for ills that never happen--a greater part of the other half.

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 fact is, mental philosophy is very like Poverty, which, you know, begins at home; and indeed, when it goes abroad, it is poverty itself.

The faith in reason insists that the poverty of democracy offers a greater hope for mankind than the prosperity that attaches itself to aristocracy or despotism.

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.

The fast-food industry is notorious for employing millions of Americans at poverty wages.

The fight against poverty and hunger must be fought constantly and on many fronts, especially in its causes.

The first thing that you need to deal with is the issue of equity and poverty.

The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.

The fruit of love's great tree is poverty; Whoever knows this knows humility.

The first world is going to have to account for this sort of horrible poverty in our midst. We have to, first of all, become aware of it. We have to take responsibility for it. And then we have to do something about it for our own freedom, for our own salvation, for our own humanity.

The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily.

[The Goths'] poverty was incurable; since the most liberal donatives were soon dissipated in wasteful luxury, and the most fertile estates became barren in their hands.

The greatest existential risks over the coming decades or century arise from certain, anticipated technological breakthroughs that we might make in particular, machine super intelligence, nanotechnology and synthetic biology. Each of these has an enormous potential for improving the human condition by helping cure disease, poverty, etc. But one could imagine them being misused, used to create powerful weapon systems, or even some kind of accidental destructive scenario, where we suddenly are in possession of some technology that's far more powerful than we are able to control or use wisely.

The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.

The greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing and despising them.

The impact of NCDs is not only affecting the urban populations but also rural poor. This is compounding the basic problem of poverty.

The huge turnout for Live 8 here and around the world proves that thanks to the leadership from people like Tony Blair and Gordon Brown the world is beginning to demand more action on global health and poverty.