Best 2723 quotes in «poverty quotes» category

People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening

People would rather live in an area of poverty than in an area where there are no jobs, because if they live in poverty, they have a certain sense of hope they can get out of it. If there are no jobs, there's no hope. And bad things come from that.

Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice.

Poor and afflicted and oppressed people have faces, and we are required to look squarely into them. We can't love what we won't experience.

People see poverty all around them in India, but they are desensitized or immune to it. I came to the conclusion that poverty is driven by lack of education.

People think that this concept of GDP is scientific economics, partly because it has a precise number and can be quantified. But the underlying concept of "the market" makes it appear as if today's poverty is natural. It makes it appear that Goldman Sachs and Donald Trump are job creators instead of job destroyers. That is illogical, when you think about it.

Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those born rich could afford to be touched by it.

Poor maids have more lovers than husbands.

Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts

Poverty and loneliness could be seen as a liberation from strivings to become rich and popular.

Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.

Poverty and War have no excuse.

Poverty arises and persists where corruption is endemic and enterprise is stifled, where basic fairness provided by the rule of law is absent. In such circumstances, poverty is an assault against human dignity, and in that assault lies the natural seed of human anger

Poverty breeds a lot of things. When people are desperate and trying to survive, they do drastic things.

Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

Poverty hides itself in thought before it surrenders to purses.

Poverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old.

Poverty hath slain a thousand, but riches have slain ten thousand. They are very uncertain, they promise that which they cannot perform, neither can they afford a contented mind.

Poverty, I realized, wasn't only a lack of financial resources; it was isolation from the kind of people that could help you make more of yourself.

Poverty is a big barrier if you are at the bottom layer of society, don't know where the next meal is coming from. It is not a big barrier of taking the rich with the poor in a big society to provide schooling for all.

Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts. [Lat., Paupertas . . . omnes artes perdocet.]

Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.

Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.

Poverty is in separatism. Abundance is in unity.

Poverty is not a sin; it is a condition, a circumstance that allows God's work to be displayed.

Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things

Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.

Poverty is abandonment. We have abandoned the poor.

Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness, to which those doom themselves who elect to spend all their years in that vainest of all vain pursuits-the pursuit of mere pleasure as a sufficient end in itself.

Poverty is a national waste as well as individual waste. We are all diminished when any of us are denied proper education. The nation is the poorer - a poorer economy, a poorer civilization, because of this human and national waste.

Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.

Poverty is caused by sin and disobeying the word of god.

Poverty is not created by poor people. It is produced by our failure to create institutions to support human capabilities.

Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.

Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.

Poverty isn't being broke; poverty is never having enough.

Poverty is unnecessary.

Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.

Poverty makes it very difficult in an already competitive world for kids to get on a straight track where they can actually love learning.

Poverty on both a personal and worldwide level is supported by our collective belief in scarcity.

Poverty palls the most generous spirits; it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair.

Poverty" Pitt exclaimed "is no disgrace but it is damned annoying." In the contemporary United States it is not annoying but it is a disgrace.

Poverty's child - he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.

Poverty, the mother of manhood. Also, the mother of prostitution.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

Poverty? Wealth? Seek neither -- / One causes swollen heads, / The other, swollen bellies.

Poverty is considered quaint in the rural areas because it comes thatched.