Best 2723 quotes in «poverty quotes» category

The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resented injustice, the other is merely a momentary passion soon appeased.

The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.

The Curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.

The dangerous time when mechanical voices, radios, telephones, take the place of human intimacies, and the concept of being in touch with millions brings a greater and greater poverty in intimacy and human vision.

The day someone quits school he is condemning himself to a future of poverty.

The debt-habit is the twin brother of poverty.

The elimination of profit, whatever methods may be resorted to for its execution, must transform society into a senseless jumble. It would create poverty for all.

The English are probably more capable than most peoples of making revolutionary change without bloodshed. In England, if anywhere,it would be possible to abolish poverty without destroying liberty.

The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty and therefore its inability to mobilize out of its own resources even the barest of minimum resources to address any of the public health crises that Africa faces.

The essential in this time of moral poverty is to create enthusiasm.

The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry but they cannot kill ignorance, illnesses, poverty or hunger.

The extent of poverty in the world is much exaggerated. Our sensitiveness makes half our poverty; our fears--anxieties for ills that never happen--a greater part of the other half.

The fact is, mental philosophy is very like Poverty, which, you know, begins at home; and indeed, when it goes abroad, it is poverty itself.

The faith in reason insists that the poverty of democracy offers a greater hope for mankind than the prosperity that attaches itself to aristocracy or despotism.

The fast-food industry is notorious for employing millions of Americans at poverty wages.

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.

The fight against poverty and hunger must be fought constantly and on many fronts, especially in its causes.

The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.

The first thing that you need to deal with is the issue of equity and poverty.

The first world is going to have to account for this sort of horrible poverty in our midst. We have to, first of all, become aware of it. We have to take responsibility for it. And then we have to do something about it for our own freedom, for our own salvation, for our own humanity.

The fruit of love's great tree is poverty; Whoever knows this knows humility.

The greatest existential risks over the coming decades or century arise from certain, anticipated technological breakthroughs that we might make in particular, machine super intelligence, nanotechnology and synthetic biology. Each of these has an enormous potential for improving the human condition by helping cure disease, poverty, etc. But one could imagine them being misused, used to create powerful weapon systems, or even some kind of accidental destructive scenario, where we suddenly are in possession of some technology that's far more powerful than we are able to control or use wisely.

The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily.

[The Goths'] poverty was incurable; since the most liberal donatives were soon dissipated in wasteful luxury, and the most fertile estates became barren in their hands.

The greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing and despising them.

The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.

The huge turnout for Live 8 here and around the world proves that thanks to the leadership from people like Tony Blair and Gordon Brown the world is beginning to demand more action on global health and poverty.

The horse on the treadmill may be very discontented, but he is not disposed to tell his troubles, for he cannot stop to talk.

The illegal trade in apes has little to do with poverty. It is instead generated by the rich and powerful.

The internal conditions in Iran are worsening in all aspects. Poverty and unemployment are becoming more severe, despite the fact that Iran has turned into a developed and industrialized country.

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 impact of NCDs is not only affecting the urban populations but also rural poor. This is compounding the basic problem of poverty.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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