Best 2723 quotes in «poverty quotes» category

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

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

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.

Self-preservation has a tendency to lead to poverty.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

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

Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Taking responsible steps to reduce poverty is not merely a moral imperative but an economic one.

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.

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.

Thanks to the Communist Party of China, we now know the path to poverty alleviation is Capitalism.

Terrorism is fueled by hate. The tragedy is that there are countless young children who are being taught to hate. Terrorism is usually fueled also by poverty.

Terrorism really flourishes in areas of poverty, despair and hopelessness, where people see no future

That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.

The amount of poverty and suffering required for a Rockefeller to emerge, and the amount of depravity entailed in the accumulation of a fortune of such magnitude, are left out of the picture, and it is not always possible for the popular forces to expose this clearly.

That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside the door is extreme poverty

That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.

That which is inherently nonfinanceable is financed. That which is inherently financeable is not financed. And the illogic of poverty amidst eagerness and ability to produce plenty goes on.

The accumulation of wealth is a process which is of itself morally neutral. True, as Christianity teaches, riches bring temptations. But then so does poverty.

The best anti-poverty program is a world-class education.

The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.

The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.

The best way to help the poor is to make them uncomfortable in their own poverty.

The best writing deadlines are poverty and death.

The camera could be a very powerful instrument against discrimination, against poverty, against racism.

The biggest fight in my life is not in boxing. The biggest fight in my life is how to end poverty in my country.

The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well-off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery almost without noticing them.

The Buddhist version of poverty is a situation where you have nothing to contribute.

The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need, it's the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you'd do anything to lift that burden.

The capitalist system has lifted mankind out of mass poverty. It is this system that in the last century, in the last generation, even in the last decade, has acceleratively been changing the face of the world, and has provided the masses of mankind with amenities that even kings did not possess or imagine a few generations ago.