Best 2723 quotes in «poverty quotes» category

Don't be deceived when our Revolution has been finally stamped out and they tell you things are better now Even if there's no poverty to be seen because the poverty's been hidden even if you ever got more wages and could afford to buy more of these new and useless goods which these new industries foist on you and even if it seems to you that you never had so much that is only the slogan of those who still have much more than you

Drinking Garri doesnt mean you're poor, but allowing the garri to swell-up before drinking is Poverty

Easterly, a celebrated economist, presents one side in what has become an ongoing debate with fellow star-economist Jeffrey Sachs about the role of international aid in global poverty. Easterly argues that existing aid strategies have not and will not reduce poverty, because they don't seriously take into account feedback from those who need the aid and because they perpetuate western colonial tendencies.

Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.

Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.

Education is the key to opportunity. It's a ticket out of poverty.

EJECTION, n. An approved remedy for the disease of garrulity. It is also much used in cases of extreme poverty.

Ending poverty and ensuring sustainability are the defining challenges of our time. Energy is central to both of them.

Every nation on the Earth that embraces market economics and the free enterprise system is pulling millions of its people out of poverty. The free enterprise system creates prosperity, not denies it.

Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor

Environmentalism is a luxury. Just like being a vegetarian is a luxury. When you have to worry about eating - you're not going to be worried about where the food's coming from, or who made your shoes. Poverty, whether planned or not planned, is a way of making environmentalism moot.

Every problem born of our poverty brought with it a sense of impotence: No escape, no help, anywhere!

Fasting will break poverty from your life.

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.

Far from the West having caused the poverty in the Third World, contact with the West has been the principal agent of material progress there.

Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor.

Extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere.

Feel like a broke-down engine, ain't got no drivin' wheel. You all been down and lonesome, you know just how a poor man feels.

Finally I got to the point where I said, I'd like to start a project where we can actually talk about race and poverty, not through the lens of a particular case, but much more broadly.

Few things have more impact than nutrition on a child's ability to survive, learn effectively and escape a life of poverty.

Food banking as well as other antihunger programs do a good job of managing poverty by alleviating its worst symptom, hunger.

Foreign aid must be viewed as an investment, not an expense.

For each of the four hundred and four bodily ailments celebrated physicians have produced infallible remedies, but the malady which brings the greatest distress to mankind - to even the wisest and cleverest of us - is the plague of poverty.

Foreign Assistance is not an end in itself. The purpose of aid must be to create the conditions where it's no longer need.

For me the only point that has remained unchanged through the years is that in India there is still so much poverty.

For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.

Four specters haunt the poor - old age, accident, sickness and unemployment

For those who have lived on the edge of poverty all their lives, the semblance of poverty affected by the affluent is both incomprehensible and insulting.

Genius may be almost defined as the faculty of acquiring poverty.

Free enterprise has done more to reduce poverty than all the government programs dreamed up by Democrats.

Freedom ultimately is dignity. And dignity, not income, is the opposite of poverty.

Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.

Get kids out of poverty. Poverty is devastating.

Give me, Lord, neither poverty nor riches.

Global poverty is an "input" on the supply side; the global economic system feeds on cheap labor.

Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.

Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference.

GLOUCESTER: Yet so much is my poverty of spirit, So mighty and so many my defects, As I had rather hide me from my greatness, Being a bark to brook no mighty sea, Than in my greatness covet to be hid, And in the vapour of my glory smother'd. But God be thanked. . . .

Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.

God sends us the poor to try us.... And he that refuses them a little out of the great deal that God has given lays up poverty in store for his own posterity.

Handouts are not going to end global poverty, but work - real work - just might.

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

Growing numbers of corporate executives are aware of the inextricable link between the well being of our families and the well-being of our nation. Nowhere is this link manifest so strongly as with the problem of hunger.

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty.

Grind the faces of the poor.

Having stumbled upon a tolerable career, for the first time in my life I was actually living above the poverty line. My hunger to climb had been blunted, in short, by a bunch of small satisfactions that added up to something like happiness.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.