Best 2723 quotes in «poverty quotes» category

Proper prospecting prevents poverty.

Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits.

Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous conscientiousness of honor. It is not the produce of riches only, but of the hard earnings of labor and poverty. It is drawn even from the bitterness of want and misery. Not a beggar passes, or perishes in the streets, whose mite is not in that mass.

Putin wants to stay in power, but not so that he can finally solve our most pressing problems: education, health care, poverty.

Quick riches are more dangerous than poverty.

Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.

Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs and symbols that indicate the presence of [Muslim] rule more surely than the crescent-flag itself, abound.

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

Read a textbook. It will tell you. These are the things for instance on the African continent that will contribute to immune deficiency, various tropical diseases because of poor infrastructure, general levels of poverty don’t get treated. Syphilis untreated or not properly treated, which as it happens is a big problem as I hear, gets treated, the symptoms disappear but in fact… it … that impacts on the immune system. You’ve got to deal with these things.

Realism is condemned by those artists whose poverty of technique does not permit them to express it.

Relentlessly feeding on poverty and economic dislocation, a New World Order was taking shape.

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.

Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.

Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.

Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.

Restore the spinning wheel to its place and you will solve the problem of poverty.

Riches exclude only one inconvenience,--that is, poverty.

Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law

Riches may not bring happiness, but neither does poverty.

Right now, with terrorism and poverty and Wall Street and Social Security having problems, nudity should not be the issue.

Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.

Self-pity is the worst poverty. When a person says, 'I am...' with pity, before he has said anything more he has diminished himself to half of what he is; and what is said further, diminishes him totally; nothing more of him is left afterwards.

Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates.

Selfishness comes from poverty in the heart, from the belief that love is not abundant.

Self-preservation has a tendency to lead to poverty.

Shallow understanding accompanies poor compassion; great understanding goes with great compassion.

Severe poverty is getting better by some measures, but it's also becoming ever more scandalous because it is now so easily avoidable.

Since the whole village was poor, we didnt realize our own poverty. I was happy.

She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.

Since Social Security was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to ensure economic security for American workers, poverty among American seniors has dramatically declined.

Socialism and communism are set up so that a select few elite get most of everything and the rest of society is equally miserable in poverty and oppression. So if you can be in the ruling party elite, socialism, communism, you've got it made. That's less than one half of one-tenth a percent of the population in those countries.

So i say, change the base! If you change the base, anybody will be as tall as anybody else! My belief is poverty is not caused by poor ppl. Poverty is caused by the system. Poverty is caused by the policies that we pursue.

Socialism needs to pull down wealth; liberalism seeks to raise up poverty. Socialism would destroy private interests, Liberalism would preserve [them] ... by reconciling them with public right. Socialism would kill enterprise; Liberalism would rescue enterprise from the trammels of privilege and preference. Socialism assails the preeminence of the individual; Liberalism seeks ... to build up a minimum standard for the mass. Socialism exalts the rule; Liberalism exalts the man. Socialism attacks capitalism; Liberalism attacks monopoly.

Social Security is meant to be - to make sure that no one who's worked hard, and played by the rules, and paid into the system grows old in poverty in America.

Society can transport money from rich to poor only in a leaky bucket

Social security has enabled people to retire with dignity and overwhelmingly not be in poverty. We have to keep it solvent.

Social Security not only helps Americans enjoy a secure retirement, it has also kept millions of Americans out of poverty.

Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?

Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty

SO the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, "Loneliness is the ultimate poverty

Sometimes, when you grow up in one of these poverty-stricken neighborhoods where the educational system isn't the best, you don't realize that you have any choices.

So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty.

Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors.

Spring cold is like the poverty of a poor man who has had a fortune left him - better days are coming.

Stupas protect beings from 5 major disasters: war, epidemic diseases, famine, pollution, n poverty.

... statism systematically violates the rights of individuals and is, therefore, immoral. Because it suppresses the mind and violates men's rights, it thereby causes abysmal poverty and is utterly impractical.

Submission to poverty is the unpardonable sin against the body. Submission to unhappiness is the unpardonable sin against the spirit.

Take every penny you have set aside for aid for Tanzania and spend it in the UK, explaining to people the facts and causes of poverty.

Sufficiency isn't two steps up from poverty or one step short of abundance. It isn't a measure of barely enough or more than enough. Sufficiency isn't an amount at all. It is an experience, a context we generate, a declaration, a knowing that there is enough, and that we are enough.