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The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain for their families.

The international trading system was devised by the rich to suit their needs; it ignores those of the poor.

The intergenerational poverty that troubles us so much today is predominantly a poverty of values.

The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.

The limits of thought are not so much set from outside, by the fullness or poverty of experiences that meet the mind, as from within, by the power of conception, the wealth of formulative notions with which the mind meets experiences.

The longer I live the more I mistrust theatricality, the false glamour cast by performance, the more I know its poverty beside the truths we are salvaging from the splitting-open of our lives. -from "Transcendental Etude

The main cause of poverty is self-inflicted fear and ignorance.

The man who has lost his purse will go wherever you wish. [Lat., Ibit eo quo vis qui zonam perdidit.]

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.

The more humanity owes the poor man, the more society denies him.

The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.

The old culture had come out of poverty, out of English customs.

The noblest people are those despising wealth, learning, pleasure and life; esteeming above them poverty, ignorance, hardship and death.

The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.

The opposite of Prosperity is not poverty. It is anxiety.

The only really Christian art is that which, like St. Francis, does not fear being wedded to poverty. This rises far above art-as-ornament.

The only really effective means of enabling States to deal with the grave problem of poverty is to provide them with the necessary resources through foreign financial aid - public and private - granted under reasonable conditions, within the framework of international commercial relations regulated with fairness.

The poor are the human manure in which grow the harvests of life, the harvests of joy which the rich reap.

The perception of poverty as morally intolerable in a rich society had to await the emergence of a rich society

The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility

The poverty line is like the age of consent: if you find yourself parsing exactly where it is, you’ve probably already done something very, very wrong.

The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of the weak by the strong, which leave so many "in shallows and in miseries," are the decrees of a large, far-seeing benevolence.

The people starve because those above them eat too much tax-grain. That is the only reason why they starve.

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.

The poverty we see in America is now too widespread, and too complex, for easy fixes. But I do think we can reimagine many of our institutions and can create new ones in ways that would be effective. We could, for example, create social insurance systems, similar to social security, such as that we went through in 2008-9. We could create a financial transaction tax, oil profit taxes and a fairer estate tax system, and we could plow much of the revenue raised from these into job training programs, into better education infrastructure, into an expanded Earned Income Tax Credit.

The poverty of yesterday was less squalid than the poverty we purchase with our industry today. Fortunes were smaller then as well.

The poverty of the West is far more difficult to solve than the poverty of India.

The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age.

The problem in Peru is not so much poverty - it is inequality. The essence of the discourse in 2005 and 2006 is the same one that we have maintained in 2010 and 2011. My macroeconomic policy is to strengthen and ensure economic growth but with social inclusion.

The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.

The poor have been sent to the front lines of a federal budget deficit reduction war that few other groups were drafted to fight.

There are a lot of Egyptians who live below the poverty line and are preoccupied with meeting basic needs. Therefore, we have to create tangible benefits from nature conservation. Only through economic incentives will we convince people to protect habitats, wildlife, geological formations, cultural heritage sites, etc. We need local communities to cooperate with us, not against us!

The real solution to the problem of poverty consists in finding how to increase the employment and earning power of the poor.

There are a lot of stats and a strong correlation between dropout rates and crime as well as poverty.

There are levels of poverty in South Africa that are totally unacceptable.

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

There are no causes of poverty. It is the rest state, that which happens when you don't do anything. If you want to experience poverty, just do nothing, and it will come…. We should ask what are the causes of wealth and try to recreate and reproduce them.

There are millions and millions of people who are thrown in the midst of poverty and starvation. Animals don't die of starvation, only human beings.

There are no causes of poverty. To ask what causes poverty is like asking what causes coldit is the absence of energy. Similarly poverty is the absence of wealth. We should ask, ‘what are the causes of wealth?’

There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.

There are no riches like the sweetness of content, nor poverty comparable to the want of patience.

The reason that the World Trade Center got hit is because there are a lot of people living in abject poverty out there who don't have any hope for a better life.

There are wars and poverty and so on - it's based on fear. You can cure that with your being by not being afraid.This is quotes copyright © By Pumpkin Limited

There is a deep sadness to American poverty, greater than the sadness of any other kind. It's because America has such an ideology of success.

There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

There is another form of poverty! It is the spiritual poverty of our time, which afflicts the so-called richer countries particularly seriously.

There is a thought that poverty is a public policy failure; poverty is man-made by action and non-action: poverty can be eliminated.

There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing.