Best 2723 quotes in «poverty quotes» category

It's your obligation to speak the truth, and everyone can either take it or leave it. But truth must be in us. We live in such a poverty of truth today.

It would be a considerable consolation to the poor and discontented could they but see the means whereby the wealth they covet has been acquired, or the misery that it entails.

It would take little more than $50 billion to raise every poor person above the official poverty line, yet the percentage of the population classified as poor hardly budges, while annual welfare spending amounts to four times that much. Where's the money going?

I've always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I've got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I've got hold of the wrong load of trappings, and a rotten load they are too, ones I could have very well done without.

I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage.

I've come across a lot of people in my life who talk about poverty and talk about the poor, but you rarely have a sense that it matters to them to the point at which they will be willing to sacrifice something.

I've learned so much through life. Starting off in Asia, the cultures, the people you meet, the poverty you see. It's been a great education for me, and I've loved every minute of it.

I was becoming addicted to Bombay. There was squalor and poverty, but I had begun to realise my good fortune and would never again forget it.

I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week.

I was trained to become an economist and I finished my work and I was teaching and did my PhD so I thought I did that. I prepared myself for that kind of road. But then I realized that I had not learned enough to solve the problem of poverty. So I distanced myself from the things that I learned and tried to learn anew about people.

I won't claim the workhouses didn't have their problems, but they were set up by people who cared.

I will do anything, including highway robbery and murder, to avoid leaving my children in poverty.

I wonder what it feels like to have no desires left because you have satisfied them all, smothered them with money even before they are born. Is an existence without desire very desirable? And is the poverty of desire better than rank poverty itself?

I work in a very tough area of Britain. There is not much hope sociologically where I live and work, they're all sorts of conditions of poverty and deprivation and so on, I really do believe that the message of the kingdom of God is for places like this.

Let us contemplate the humility of the Son of God born into poverty. Let us imitate him by sharing with those who are weak.

I would like to solemnly reaffirm, that poverty is not a fatality.

Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity.

Let's also, my friends, let's raise the minimum wage and support the 5 for 15 so you don't live in poverty.

Let us look at wealth and poverty. The affluent society and the deprived society inter-are. The wealth of one society is made of the poverty of the other. "This is like this, because that is like that." Wealth is made of non-wealth elements, and poverty is made by non-poverty elements. [...] so we must be careful not to imprison ourselves in concepts. The truth is that everything contains everything else. We cannot just be, we can only inter-be. We are responsible fo everything that happens around us.

Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.

I would like to see many times more dollars going into the education for girls. The World Bank has some wonderful statistics in terms of the importance of educating girls as a way of lifting whole societies out of poverty.

I would like to thank my parents in Vergaio, a little village in Italy. They gave me the biggest gift: poverty.

I would put primary emphasis on a good standard of living equitably distributed. It can't be equal, but one that eliminates the terrible cruelty of poverty.

Lack of money rivets us firmly to the ground, one's wings are clipped.

Let us never allow ourselves to think that poverty is an excuse for an invitation to totalitarianism, and if we should be tempted to think as much, let us remind ourselves that totalitarianism not only extinguishes liberty but institutionalises poverty as well

Let us remind ourselves that our work is far from complete. Where there is poverty and sickness, including AIDS, where human beings are being oppressed, there is more work to be done. Our work is for freedom for all.

Let us work in partnerships between rich and poor to improve the opportunities of all human beings to build better lives.

Libraries can be of indispensable service in lifting the dead weight of poverty and ignorance.

Loneliness and the feeling that you're no use to anyone - the worst kind of poverty.

Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.

Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body.

Long before they slump into poverty, great powers succumb to a poverty of ambition.

Literacy could be the ladder out of poverty

Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc.

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.

Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.

Meaningful solutions to the problems of mass poverty that prevails in India I believe can only be found in the framework of an expanding economy.

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

Many writers claim that nearly all crime is caused by economic conditions, or in other words that poverty is practically the whole cause of crime. Endless statistics have been gathered on this subject which seem to show conclusively that property crimes are largely the result of the unequal distribution of wealth. But crime of any class cannot be safely ascribed to a single cause. Life is too complex, heredity is too variant and imperfect, too many separate things contribute to human behavior, to make it possible to trace all actions to a single cause.

Many of my contemporaries in the developed world see subsistence farming as soulful and organic, but it is a poverty trap and an environmental disaster.

Medicare is paid for by the American taxpayer. Medicare belongs to you. Medicare is for seniors, who many of them are on fixed income, to lift them out of poverty.

Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.

Modernized by tin roofs and T-shirts, Third World poverty is no longer picturesque.

Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.

Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Money is only a vehicle that provides you with options, and I say there's only one thing that money can't buy - poverty.

Most middle-class Americans, even working-class Americans, encounter each other across racial lines all the time, but it gets really hard-core when you get into that witches' brew that is the combination of race and poverty.

My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice.

MTV has turned more young women into whores than poverty.