Best 2723 quotes in «poverty quotes» category

Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The more millionaires, the more paupers.

Abject poverty is demeaning, is an assault on the dignity of those that suffer it. In the end it demeans us all. It makes the freedom of all of us less meaningful.

a call girl is simply someone who hates poverty more than she hates sin.

A criminal is undoubtedly a poor soul, who is punished for his poverty.

Add each day something to fortify you against poverty and death.

A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.

A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he only means that, as in the above case, it places them in incongruous positions.

Ah, the poverty, the miserable poverty, of any love that lies outside of marriage, of any love that is not a living together, a sharing of all!

A healthier, less impoverished planet is good for all of us. From an economic standpoint, it allows people to contribute more to the marketplace and lead productive lives. U.S. foreign assistance opens new markets to U.S. goods and services and creates new trading partners and allies.

[Albert Camus] positions are sensed. So, naturally, those intellectuals who don't have that experience have difficulty in comprehending it. But I think it made Camus more tolerant because he had already seen both sides of things when the others had only ever seen one. They imagine poverty, but they don't know what it is. In fact they've got a sort of bad conscience about the working classes.

A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.

[Albert] Camus' was born in Algeria of French nationality, and was assimilated into the French colony, although the French colonists rejected him absolutely because of his poverty.

A job should lift workers out of poverty, not keep them in it.

All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me.

America stands as a beacon of hope and the possibility of a better life - but it is also a nation where nearly 1 in 4 children live in poverty.

Although they are some of the hardest working folks I know, rural Americans earn, on average, $11,000 less than their urban counterparts each year. And they are more likely to live in poverty.

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.

A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.

And makes me poor indeed.

And sometimes people don't realize that 90 percent of the persistent poverty counties are located in rural America.

Anfering sex for money is not a profession that glorifies women; it is a profession born of desperation, poverty, alieatioin, and loneliness.

And when you're poor, you grow up fast.

A Nuns Life: Chastity, poverty, and obedience. Wait, chastity?" BUMPER STICKER

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

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

A pacifism which can see the cruelties only of occasional military warfare and is blind to the continuous cruelties of our social system is worthless.

A person born with an instinct for poverty.

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.

Any time you have poverty, joblessness, sub-par public schools, and a lack of opportunity, you're going to have a high rate of crime.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

Better poverty without care, than riches with.

Beggars can't be choosers.

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

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