Best 2723 quotes in «poverty quotes» category

People see poverty all around them in India, but they are desensitized or immune to it. I came to the conclusion that poverty is driven by lack of education.

People think that this concept of GDP is scientific economics, partly because it has a precise number and can be quantified. But the underlying concept of "the market" makes it appear as if today's poverty is natural. It makes it appear that Goldman Sachs and Donald Trump are job creators instead of job destroyers. That is illogical, when you think about it.

People would rather live in an area of poverty than in an area where there are no jobs, because if they live in poverty, they have a certain sense of hope they can get out of it. If there are no jobs, there's no hope. And bad things come from that.

Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice.

Poor maids have more lovers than husbands.

Poor and afflicted and oppressed people have faces, and we are required to look squarely into them. We can't love what we won't experience.

Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts

Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those born rich could afford to be touched by it.

Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.

Poverty and War have no excuse.

Poverty arises and persists where corruption is endemic and enterprise is stifled, where basic fairness provided by the rule of law is absent. In such circumstances, poverty is an assault against human dignity, and in that assault lies the natural seed of human anger

Poverty breeds a lot of things. When people are desperate and trying to survive, they do drastic things.

Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

Poverty hides itself in thought before it surrenders to purses.

Poverty and loneliness could be seen as a liberation from strivings to become rich and popular.

Poverty and pride are devoted blood brothers until one, always and inevitably, kills the other.

Poverty does not cause violence and terrorism. Lack of education does not cause terrorism.

Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.

Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who lacked everything and who envied practically nothing.

Poverty is a crime and the poor are terrorists

Poverty is a scorpion; it stings the poor and it also stings the men with high conscience who feel sad about the poverty; the rest is immune to it!

Poverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old.

Poverty hath slain a thousand, but riches have slain ten thousand. They are very uncertain, they promise that which they cannot perform, neither can they afford a contented mind.

Poverty, I realized, wasn't only a lack of financial resources; it was isolation from the kind of people that could help you make more of yourself.

Poverty is a big barrier if you are at the bottom layer of society, don't know where the next meal is coming from. It is not a big barrier of taking the rich with the poor in a big society to provide schooling for all.

Poverty and contempt generally go hand-in-hand in this world.

Poverty can lead to tyranny. Capitolism creates freedom. If the poor had a better image of the rich they could be just like them.

Poverty can't be an excuse for bad teaching, but teaching can't be the only thing we do to combat poverty.

Poverty can turn a person into a flaming torch for change and revolution, without which mankind would come to a standstill.

Poverty consist in feeling poor.

Poverty, discrimination, and ignorance restrict growth.

Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance

Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.

Poverty, chastity, and obedience are extremely difficult. But there are always the graces if you will pray for them.

poverty denotes a lack of necessities and simplicity a lack of needs.

Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.

Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.

Poverty is a plague against which humanity must fight without cease.

Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.

Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.

Poverty is abandonment. We have abandoned the poor.

Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness, to which those doom themselves who elect to spend all their years in that vainest of all vain pursuits-the pursuit of mere pleasure as a sufficient end in itself.

Poverty is a national waste as well as individual waste. We are all diminished when any of us are denied proper education. The nation is the poorer - a poorer economy, a poorer civilization, because of this human and national waste.

Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.

Poverty is curable, but it’s just not done, because it's not profitable. And that is the kind of violence that's perpetuated on humanity.

Poverty is good for nothing, except perhaps for football.

Poverty and deprivation lead to frustration, making the masses vulnerable to exploitation by extremist organizations.

Poverty and oysters always seem to go together.

Poverty and wealth inequality are a form of instability into the future.

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn't it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?