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Environmentalism is a luxury. Just like being a vegetarian is a luxury. When you have to worry about eating - you're not going to be worried about where the food's coming from, or who made your shoes. Poverty, whether planned or not planned, is a way of making environmentalism moot.

Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor

Every nation on the Earth that embraces market economics and the free enterprise system is pulling millions of its people out of poverty. The free enterprise system creates prosperity, not denies it.

Every problem born of our poverty brought with it a sense of impotence: No escape, no help, anywhere!

Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor.

Far from the West having caused the poverty in the Third World, contact with the West has been the principal agent of material progress there.

Extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere.

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.

Finally I got to the point where I said, I'd like to start a project where we can actually talk about race and poverty, not through the lens of a particular case, but much more broadly.

Few things have more impact than nutrition on a child's ability to survive, learn effectively and escape a life of poverty.

Fasting will break poverty from your life.

Feel like a broke-down engine, ain't got no drivin' wheel. You all been down and lonesome, you know just how a poor man feels.

For each of the four hundred and four bodily ailments celebrated physicians have produced infallible remedies, but the malady which brings the greatest distress to mankind - to even the wisest and cleverest of us - is the plague of poverty.

Food banking as well as other antihunger programs do a good job of managing poverty by alleviating its worst symptom, hunger.

Foreign Assistance is not an end in itself. The purpose of aid must be to create the conditions where it's no longer need.

Foreign aid must be viewed as an investment, not an expense.

For me the only point that has remained unchanged through the years is that in India there is still so much poverty.

For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.

Free enterprise has done more to reduce poverty than all the government programs dreamed up by Democrats.

For those who have lived on the edge of poverty all their lives, the semblance of poverty affected by the affluent is both incomprehensible and insulting.

Four specters haunt the poor - old age, accident, sickness and unemployment

Freedom ultimately is dignity. And dignity, not income, is the opposite of poverty.

Genius may be almost defined as the faculty of acquiring poverty.

Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.

Global poverty is an "input" on the supply side; the global economic system feeds on cheap labor.

Get kids out of poverty. Poverty is devastating.

Give me, Lord, neither poverty nor riches.

Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference.

Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.

GLOUCESTER: Yet so much is my poverty of spirit, So mighty and so many my defects, As I had rather hide me from my greatness, Being a bark to brook no mighty sea, Than in my greatness covet to be hid, And in the vapour of my glory smother'd. But God be thanked. . . .

Grind the faces of the poor.

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty.

God sends us the poor to try us.... And he that refuses them a little out of the great deal that God has given lays up poverty in store for his own posterity.

Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

Growing numbers of corporate executives are aware of the inextricable link between the well being of our families and the well-being of our nation. Nowhere is this link manifest so strongly as with the problem of hunger.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

Handouts are not going to end global poverty, but work - real work - just might.

Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty.

Having stumbled upon a tolerable career, for the first time in my life I was actually living above the poverty line. My hunger to climb had been blunted, in short, by a bunch of small satisfactions that added up to something like happiness.

He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, imprisonment, psychosurgery, social ostracism, and extreme poverty.

He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love.

He who accepts his poverty unhurt I'd say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.

He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.

He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable.

He (Lyndon B. Johnson) wanted to see poverty, so he came to see my team (1964 New York Mets).