Best 2723 quotes in «poverty quotes» category

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.

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 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.

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

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 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 came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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 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

If there is neither excessive wealth nor immoderate poverty in a nation, then justice may be said to prevail.

If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.

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 we are to make poverty history, we must have the active participation of States, civil society and the private sector, as well as individual volunteers.

If we are serious about breaking cycles of poverty, we have to change this (economy).

If thy wealth waste, they wit will give but small warmth.

If we remove the hope of profit as a means to alleviate misfortune - poverty, illness, misery, disaster - we shall increase our misfortunes and make them permanent.

If we from wealth to poverty descend, Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend.

If we see someone who needs help, do we stop? There is so much suffering and poverty, and a great need for good Samaritans.

If we're going to address trafficking in our country we have to address poverty, racism & gender based violence.

If you are in poor health, you can remedy it. If your personal relationships are unsatisfactory, you can change them for the better. If you are in poverty, you can find yourself surrounded by abundance... Each of you, regardless of position, status, circumstances, or physical condition, is in control or your own experience.

If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to

If we didn't have Social Security, our seniors would live mostly in poverty. You'd have another 18 million people in poverty.

If you have not tasted poverty, you will not be able to manage blessing when it comes. If you have not tasted humiliation, you will not be able to manage honour when it comes.

Ignorance and poverty are the best condiments for the great feast of the world, but the inexperienced and poor are never invited to it.

If you have a problem where you have just poverty, long-term insurance benefits for an emergency aren't going to solve that either. You have got to fix the social safety net.

If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.