Best 2723 quotes in «poverty quotes» category

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.

MTV has turned more young women into whores than poverty.

My children didn't have my advantages; I was born into abject poverty.

My dad's main client was the World Bank, and he spent most of his time traveling to Third World countries. His particular interest lay in the eradication of poverty through development and business.

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.

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

My upbringing has been pushing and pulling my work my whole life. At first it pushed me away, as I sought to clean up my mind with a style that was slick and glossy, aspirational and wrapped in fantasy. That's still largely how I approach my fashion work. More recently it's pulled me back, particularly since Katrina, and as I get older and lose some of that shame that's inherited with poverty.

My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.

Neglect of an effective birth control policy is a never-failing source of poverty which, in turn, is the parent of revolution and crime.

Never be diplomatic and careful about the treasure God gives. This is poverty triumphant.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason

No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise.

Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history of the world have so many of those same people felt themselves so poor.

Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.

No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

Nobody wants to remain poor. Those who are poor want to move away from poverty. That is why, all our programmes must be for the poor. All our schemes must serve the poor.

No longer can we measure compassion by how much we spend on poverty but how many people we help to lift out of poverty.

Non-violence can truly flourish when the world is free of poverty, hunger, discrimination, exclusion, intolerance and hatred - when women and men can realize their highest potential and live a secure and fulfilling life. Until then, each and every one of us would have to contribute - collectively and individually - to build peace through non-violence.

None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.

No solution [to the problem of poverty] is so effective as providing income to the poor. Whether in the form of food, housing, health services, education or money, income is an excellent antidote for deprivation. No truth has spawned so much ingenious evasion.

No one is kept in poverty by a shortness in the supply of riches, there is more than enough for all.

O blessed poverty, who bestows eternal riches on those who love and embrace her!

Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.

Not only subjective poverty is never overcome by growth, but absolute poverty is increased by it. ... Absolute misery grows while wealth increases.

One ought not to encourage beggars, and yes, you are right, it is far better to donate to charities that address the causes of poverty rather than to him, a creature who is merely its symptom.

Of all the advantages which come to any young man ... poverty is the greatest.

Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.

Of those who die from avoidable, poverty-related causes, nearly 10 million, according to UNICEF, are children under five. They die from diseases such as measles, diarrhoea, and malaria that are easy and inexpensive to treat or prevent.

On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in life.

One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.

One of the glaring failures of capitalism is the continuing widespread existence of poverty - often extreme poverty. Even in the advanced economies, many millions of people endure terrible economic and social deprivation, despite the incredible wealth all around them.

Oh, poverty parts good company.

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

One of the things that struck me when I came to the U.S. was discovering American poverty.

Only that which lasts forever is real. That which is done in the temple lasts forever; therefore, the temple is the real world. Most of what we experience "out there," such as sickness, wealth, poverty, fame, etc., lasts for only a short period of time, so it is not the real world.

Only the poor can know all the disadvantages of poverty. Only the rich can know all the disadvantages of wealth.

Our inability to recall how we really felt is why our wealth of experiences turns out to be poverty of riches.

Our aid is work for the American people.

Our efforts to help the poor does not mean we're going to eradicate poverty.

Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign

Our poverty is freedom. This is our poverty - the giving up our freedom to dispose of things, to choose, to possess

Ours is not a problem of the intellect but of spiritual poverty. That is why we need a Savior.

Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.

Our opponents say more children are living in poverty than when we came into office. And that's probably right.

Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising.

Patches are a nun's jewels.

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 can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening

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.