Best 2723 quotes in «poverty quotes» category

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.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable.

He (Lyndon B. Johnson) wanted to see poverty, so he came to see my team (1964 New York Mets).

Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, imprisonment, psychosurgery, social ostracism, and extreme poverty.

He that is rich is wise, And all men learned poverty despise.

He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.

He that would be content with a mean condition must not cast his eye upon one that is in a far better estate than himself, but let him look upon him that is lower than he is, and, if he see that such a one bears poverty comfortably, it will help to quiet him.

He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love.

He who accepts his poverty unhurt I'd say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.

He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.

He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!

He wondered if what he had taken for the richness of silence was really the poverty of never being heard [...]. How could he have forgotten what he had always known: there is no match for the silence of God.

Honduras was the original 'banana republic,' and its poverty remains extreme.

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.

How many kinds of moral and material poverty we face today as a result of denying God and putting so many idols in his place!

Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.

How many times we have picked up in the streets human beings who had been living like animals and were longing to die like angels!

I am a sensitive person, so it is actually saddening to learn that these poverty-stricken families are most of the time mistreated or looked down upon. Help the poor, like how you would want to be helped if you were in their position.

I am an entrepreneur and my goal is to create invention to the solution of human trafficking and extreme poverty.

I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality.

I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.

I am unpersuaded that relative poverty and hard work are greater adversities than relative affluence and free time.

I am so proud to be from New Orleans and to be one of those people who had been displaced. I wasn't there during that time, but that's where I come from, that kind of poverty, and I'm very, very proud of that because it's given me my history.

I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective -- the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income.

I am still a socialist. I am a left-of-center politician. I believe that in Africa, if you see the poverty around us, you can't afford to be anything else.

I believe that the Welfare State redistributes poverty and reduces income. As Karl Kraus once said of psychoanalysis, the Welfare State is the disease which it purports to cure.

I attempted to see famines as broad "economic" problems (concentrating on how people can buy food, or otherwise get entitled to it), rather than in terms of the grossly undifferentiated picture of aggregate food supply for the economy as a whole.

I believe it is one of our biggest tasks - the task of our life - to do everything possible to counter poverty and to build a freedom-loving future.

I decided that the whole idea of what it means to be an artist was that somehow you are ontologically oriented toward poverty : "As an artist, you don't make money." I had to figure out some kind of way to guarantee that I'd be able to continue doing the work that I wanted to do, whether I made money from the work I was doing or not.

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

I cant solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.

I confess I could never see any good reason why dirt should always be a necessary concomitant of poverty.

I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty.

If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father.

I did whatever it takes to do stand-up. There is an abundance of material in struggling and poverty and trying to make it. There is so much humor in that, it's unlimited.

Idolatry is when you become the source of your own joy. Poverty of spirit is a wonderful thing.

If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.

If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most poorly endowed in the distribution or wealth that chance had made, and who were, therefore, most worthy of indulgence.

If not one more cent in new aid money flowed [to Africa], we could with more urgency and efficiency and creativity be doing much more to take more people out of poverty.

I founded Grameen Bank to provide loans to those considered traditionally unbankable. Grameen Bank works with the poorest and often illiterate, providing uncollateralized micro-loans for tiny business enterprises by which they can lift themselves and their families out of poverty.

If poverty makes man groan, he yawns in opulence. When fortune exempts us from labor, nature overwhelms us with time.

If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires aptitude.

If our economic system is to survive, there has to be a better distribution of wealth ... we can't have a system where some people live in superfluous, inordinate wealth, while others live in abject deadening poverty.

If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth; but, if poor, it is not quite so easy to conceal our poverty. We shall find that it is less difficult to hide a thousand guineas, than one hole in our coat.

If the experts are right in their calculations, then we face the prospect of millions of people retiring into poverty from the American middle class in the years ahead. That has all kinds of social and economic consequences. We need to anticipate those and start tackling the problem in a constructive way.

If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty