Best 2723 quotes in «poverty quotes» category

A poor man defended himself when charged with stealing food to appease the cravings of hunger, saying, the cries of the stomach silenced those of the conscience.

A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.

A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.

A religious ought to dread more being afraid of poverty than experiencing it.

A rising economic tide is bad for people who live off of the poverty of others.

As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.

As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg

As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

As General Eisenhower discovered, it is easier to end the Cold War or stamp out poverty than to master this devilish pastime.

As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism.

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now.

A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.

A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth.

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people.

At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line.

Ay! idleness! the rich folks never fail To find some reason why the poor deserve Their miseries.

Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks

Beggars can't be choosers.

Being born into poverty does not mean you are condemned to spend the rest of your life in poverty.

Better poverty without care, than riches with.

Being in the neighborhood and the poverty stricken environment that I grew up in, I took a detour. I gravitated towards some of the individuals that did a lot of the wrong things with the right intentions.

Better to live hundred years as a millionaire, than one week in poverty!

Be not anxious to avoid poverty. In this way the wealth of the universe may be securely invested.

Bhagavad Gita is very relevant to modern times when you see things like global warming, climate chaos, changing weather patterns, natural disasters like hurricane Katrina, extreme poverty, economic disparities, social injustice, war, and terrorism - these are the projection of a collective consciousness that's in disarray.

Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites.

Boredom is the keynote of poverty — of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with — for where there is no money there is no change of any kind, not of scene or of routine. To be able to break out of its dark brown sameness.

Boasting is always an advertisement of poverty.

Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.

Bobby Kennedy is so concerned with poverty because he didn't have any as a kid.

Both poverty and wealth are excellent things, because they are extremes, but the middle ground is damaging to the soul.

Bush senior used to say that we have more will than wallet. So he urged the country to attack poverty with a thousand points of light, none of which could be eaten.

By doing good, we do well.

But ask yourself this Eragon: If gods exist, have they been good custodians of alagaesia? Death, sickness, poverty, tyranny and countless other miseries stalk the land. If this is the handiwork of divine beings, then they are to be rebelled against and overthrown, not given obeisance, obedience, and reverance.

By helping the poor, we must be able to remove their poverty. But extending help to one here and one there in the form of providing food will not remove poverty.

Capitalism, and capitalism alone, has rescued the human race from degrading poverty, rampant sickness and early death.

Capitalism will continue to eliminate mass poverty in more and more places and to an increasingly marked extent if it is merely permitted to do so.

Capitalism, the ogre of those protesting Wall Street, has suffered a public relations crisis in the wake of the global economic collapse. But any remedy to the systemic corruption that led to the collapse should not displace recognition that capitalism creates wealth. Capitalism, and no other economic system, has raised millions from poverty around the world.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

Carbon negative power plants can provide energy while they overcome poverty and change economic values in the right direction.

Care work is still primarily done by women for free in families and for poverty wages in the market, and this is a major reason that worldwide women are the mass of the poor and the poorest of the poor.

Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor.

Cheerless poverty has no harder trial than this, that it makes men the subject of ridicule. [Lat., Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se Quam quod ridiculos homines facit.]

Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them.

Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear.

Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair.

Complaint is poverty.

China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.