Best 2723 quotes in «poverty quotes» category

This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.

This detachment (poverty, chastity, etc.) must not be mere amputation; everything which is shaken off must be simultaneously found again at a higher level.

This growing poverty in the midst of growing population constitutes a permanent menace to peace. And not only to peace, but also to democratic institutions and personal liberty For overpopulation is not compatible with freedom.

This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.

This so much joy! This so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!

Those born into poverty or on the margins of society require our extra support to realize their dreams.

Those peculiar social sensibilities nourished by our own peculiar political principles, while they enhance the true dignity of a prosperous American, do but minister to the added wretchedness of the unfortunate; first, by prohibiting their acceptance of what little random relief charity may offer; and, second, by furnishing them with the keenest appreciation of the smarting distinction between their ideal of universal equality and their grind-stone experience of the practical misery and infamy of poverty.

Those who are driven by poverty, those who're free from material worries hunger exhausting labor a joyless existence ask the same question, the question of meaning.

Those who automatically say that the social pathology of the ghetto is due to poverty discrimination and the like cannot explain why such pathology was far less prevalent in the 1950s, when poverty and discrimination were worse. But there were not nearly as many grievance mongers and race hustlers then.

Those who have not, and live in want, are a menace, Ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues.

Time and again we’ve seen that reducing poverty comes down to economic opportunity-not just connecting the poor to services like banking, but ensuring they can be producers on fair terms in the global economy.

Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.

Thoughts and words form your mental image. And since we become what we picture be sure your thoughts and words express prosperity and blessing rather than poverty and defeat.

Though virtue give a ragged livery, she gives a golden cognizance; if her service make thee poor, blush not. Thy poverty may disadvantage thee, but not dishonor thee.

Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars.

Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.

Through periodic increases over the next three decades under Democratic and Republican administrations alike, the nation achieved one of the fundamental goals of a just society, which is that no one who works for a living should have to live in poverty.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 are slaves to the cost of living.

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

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

To be able to proclaim the Good News to the poor we must know what is poverty.

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.