Best 2723 quotes in «poverty quotes» category

If thy wealth waste, they wit will give but small warmth.

If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.

If we are serious about breaking cycles of poverty, we have to change this (economy).

If we are to make poverty history, we must have the active participation of States, civil society and the private sector, as well as individual volunteers.

If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to

If we didn't have Social Security, our seniors would live mostly in poverty. You'd have another 18 million people in poverty.

If we from wealth to poverty descend, Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend.

If we remove the hope of profit as a means to alleviate misfortune - poverty, illness, misery, disaster - we shall increase our misfortunes and make them permanent.

If we're going to address trafficking in our country we have to address poverty, racism & gender based violence.

If we see someone who needs help, do we stop? There is so much suffering and poverty, and a great need for good Samaritans.

If you are in poor health, you can remedy it. If your personal relationships are unsatisfactory, you can change them for the better. If you are in poverty, you can find yourself surrounded by abundance... Each of you, regardless of position, status, circumstances, or physical condition, is in control or your own experience.

If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.

If you have a problem where you have just poverty, long-term insurance benefits for an emergency aren't going to solve that either. You have got to fix the social safety net.

If you have not tasted poverty, you will not be able to manage blessing when it comes. If you have not tasted humiliation, you will not be able to manage honour when it comes.

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

Ignorance and poverty are the best condiments for the great feast of the world, but the inexperienced and poor are never invited to it.

I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.

I grew up in a poverty-stricken neighborhood, but I didn't really know I was a deprived, poverty-stricken child until the media made me aware of it.

I have opened up an account With God's Heart-Bank. Therefore, I see nowhere The battering waves of poverty-thoughts.

I have never met a villager who does not want a vote.

I have seen that traditional approaches to charity and aid don't solve problems of poverty. In fact, too often they create dependence.

I had consumed a lot of American culture, but I was not quite prepared for the reality of American poverty.

I had to get rich so I could afford to sing like I was poor again.

I have been poor and I wanted to document poverty; I had lost a child and I was obsessed with birth; I was interested in politics and I wanted to know how it affected our lives; I am a woman and I wanted to know about women.

I have heard it said that families with many children and high birth rates are among the cause of poverty. It seems to me a simplistic opinion. I can say that the main cause of poverty is an economic system that has removed the person from the center.

I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.

I have somewhere heard or read the frank confession of a Benedictine abbot: "My vow of poverty has given me a hundred thousand crowns a year; my vow of obedience has raised me to the rank of a sovereign prince." - I forget the consequences of his vow of chastity.

I have tremendous confidence in the capacity of the poor to transform not only their own lives but also to build a just, humane, and democratic society.

I know the streets, I know the system, I know poverty, and I know how it feels to be 15 and not have a safe place to go.

I know of no system other than Hinduism under which a class has been set apart from generation to generation for the exclusive pursuit of divine knowledge and consigned to voluntary poverty.

I just hated poverty.

I left Xerox for the non-profit sector because it was clear to me that only public/private partnerships can pull off a turnaround plan at the scale we need to tackle global poverty.

Illegitimacy is the single most important social problem of our time - more important than crime, drugs, poverty, illiteracy, welfare or homelessness because it drives everything else.

I lived below the official American poverty line until I was 31.

Indeed, in US politics, 'poverty', along with 'welfare', 'unwed mothers' and 'crime', became code words for blacks.

I'm not comfortable holidaying in other people's poverty.

In a sense, Britain inadvertently, through its actions in Hong Kong, did more to reduce world poverty than all the aid programs that we've undertaken in the last century.

Indeed, in Russia there is a terrible poverty of facts, and a terrible abundance of reflections of all sorts.

I loathed poverty and I would have liked to put my hands on the party who said that poverty is an honorable estate. It is an indication of inefficiency and nothing more. There is nothing honorable or fine about it.

In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and poor, if only those resources can be unleashed in the service of all peoples.

India is a functioning democracy despite its extreme poverty, India has stayed the course.

Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education.

In fact, every place I've been to in Africa has a nice part, but you see the downside. Calcutta , parts of Central and South America , I've seen a lot of dead bodies and a lot of sad poverty and just obliteration.

Information without execution is poverty.

Inherited wealth may be something easily squandered, but inherited poverty is a legacy almost impossible to lose.

Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man, Inhibition, which does men great harm and great good. Inhibition attaches to poverty, boldness to wealth.

In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

In imitation of our Master, we Christians are called to confront the poverty of our brothers and sisters, to touch it, to make it our own and to take practical steps to alleviate it.