Best 2723 quotes in «poverty quotes» category

To be conscious of being poor while praying for riches is to be rewarded with that which you are conscious of being, namely, poverty. Prayers to be successful must be claimed and appropriated. Assume the positive consciousness of the thing desired.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

Today they say that we are free, only to be chained in poverty.

To discover one's own spiritual poverty is to achieve a positive conquest by the spirit.

To educate girls is to reduce poverty.

To give either to any public matter of interest or to any concern of my own, but I am in utter poverty by reason of my devotion to the god .

To live in poverty is to live with constant uncertainty, to accept galling indignities, and to expect harassment by the police, welfare officials and employers, as well as by others who are poor and desperate.

Too many of the conflicts which are caused today are caused by the problems that emerge from people who are in poverty.

To really tackle poverty, politicians, activists, academics will all have to think outside their boxes, will have to start developing much more integrated approaches to these problems. And a large part of this will involve working out ways to push for living wages. Partly this will involve re-empowering the union movement, which has been massively weakened in recent decades. Partly it will involve a willingness to restructure tax codes to penalize companies that don't provide basic benefits and decent wages to employees.

Too often the media assumes that "poverty" is an African American or a Latino issue. Of course, that's nonsense. While a higher percentage of the African American and Latino population does live in poverty as compared to the white population, when overall numbers are looked at, it is clear that people of all races, ethnicities, and colors, are represented amongst America's poor.

Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India.

To turn away a guest is poorest poverty; To bear with fools is mightiest might.

Traditional charity and aid are never going to solve the problems of poverty.

Trans activism in the US has most frequently been grassroots, centered on poverty and criminalization, and often oppositional to the exclusionary "mainstreaming" threads in gay and lesbian politics and feminist politics.

True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.

Truly, whoever possesses little is that much less possessed: praised be a little poverty!

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.

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

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.

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.

Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity.

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

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

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.

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

we are slaves to the cost of living.

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

We cannot end hunger unless we end poverty.

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

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

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 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 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 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 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.

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

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

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.

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