Best 2723 quotes in «poverty quotes» category

Two decades ago, however, socialism and communism died rudely, then were buried forever by the empirical demonstration of the superiority of market capitalism everywhere from Thatcher's England to Deng's China, where just the partial abolition of socialism lifted more people out of poverty more rapidly than ever in human history.

Until now their line has been that the Tories are incapable of doing anything about poverty, and aren't interested in doing it in the first place. By contrast, Labour says, we are also incapable of doing anything about poverty, but would dearly love to do something. If we knew what.

Virtue often trips and falls over the sharp edge of poverty.

Voluntary poverty isn't going around with some burlap bag around you and imitating the poor. It means being indifferent to the material, doing as Christ said. He went and sat down with the rich and Zachaeus and publicans and sinners.

Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.

Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity.

We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule.

Wealth brings a heavy purse; poverty, a light spirit.

Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty consists in feeling poor. The rich, as we reckon them, and among them the very rich, in a true scale would be found very indigent and ragged.

Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.

Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.

We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.

we are slaves to the cost of living.

We cannot end hunger unless we end poverty.

We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create.

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.

We could never light another match, and if China continues to build one coal-fired power plant a week, we are doomed. China is going to have to have new technologies made available to it to stop this. They're not going to live in poverty.

We can't end poverty if we fail to save the lives of our world's mothers.

We have never seen the isolation of the rich to the degree that we see it now. They're global. They travel all over the world. They're not in any way - it seems to me - committed to any one place. So it's easy for them to say, "We don't see this. We don't see poverty. We don't think it's that bad. We think wealth is really being distributed in ways that are fair.

We didn't starve but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.

We have a middle class that lives on a razor blade. So sometimes when you say poverty, you neglect a large portion of the population.

We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

We have said we will never collapse, never ever. We may have our droughts, our poverty, but as a people we shall never collapse, never ever.

We have done some of these in Bangladesh. Whenever I see a problem, I immediately go and create a company. That's what I did all my life.

We have the ability now to arrange global economic institutions so that poverty declines to a fraction of what it is now.

We have to get out of this mindset that the rich will do the business and the poor will have the charity.

We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

We know there are no weapons of mass destruction. But there are weapons of misdirection. Millions without health insurance, poverty abounds. For war, billions more, but no more for the poor.

We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don't know is how to photograph affluence - whose other face is poverty.

We lived in a housing project graced by the architectural style of Early Chicken Coop.

We live in a world community, and economic contact has partly contributed to that. It’s also the case that economic opportunity opened up by economic contact has helped to a great extent to reduce poverty in many parts of the world.

We live in a world where economic positions - income and wealth - are very unevenly distributed, and this leads to the widespread persistence of poverty.

Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich, my virtue then shall be To say there is no vice but beggary

We must begin by acknowledging that there is a complete absence of two things in Indian Society. One of these is equality. On the social plane we have an India based on the principles of graded inequality, which means elevation for some and degradation for others. On the economic plane we have a society in which there are some who have immense wealth as against many who live in abject poverty.

We must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment; of fear itself only should we be afraid.

We nationalize hydrocarbons, so now the economy is improving and the fight against poverty is also improving in Bolivia.

We must live more simply so that the poor may simply live.

We prefer poverty in liberty than riches in slavery.

We need to realize that poverty doesn't only consist of being hungry for bread, but rather it is a tremendous hunger for human dignity. We need to love and to be someone for someone else

We need to create jobs for 300,000 youth graduating from high school in the next three years. We need to produce growth so we can have an economic system that can turn our natural wealth into a productive system. We need services, because poverty reduction cannot take place without effective citizenship.

We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra...

We should not minimize the great outstanding service of Eugenics for critical and diagnostic investigations. It demonstrates ... that uncontrolled fertility is universally correlated with disease, poverty, overcrowding and the transmission of hereditable traits.

We say that money talks, but it speaks a broken, poverty-stricken language. Hearts talk better, clearer, and with wider intelligence.

We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty.

We should raise the minimum wage so that no one who works full time has to live in poverty

We think of poverty as a condition simply meaning a lack of funds, no money, but when one sees fifth, sixth, and seventh generation poor, it is clear that poverty is as complicated as high finance.

We tend to put the environment last because we think the first thing we have to do is eliminate poverty. But you can't reduce poverty in a vacuum. You are doing it in an environment.