Best 2723 quotes in «poverty quotes» category

It is as easy for most of us to keep from stealing our dinners as it is to digest them, and there is quite as much voluntary morality involved in one process as the other.

It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism.

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.

it is impossible to attack the problem of poverty in the industrialized or the developing world effectively unless the extent to which poverty is a women's problem is recognized.

it is easy to starve, but it is difficult to stoop.

It is more difficult to fight poverty in a rich country than in a poor one.

It is no mere coincidence that there is both an historic and a present relationship between community (people assisting each other) and a poverty of power due to financial recession.

It is not great wealth in a few individuals that proves a country is prosperous, but great general wealth evenly distributed among the people. . .

It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.

It is not only poverty that torments the Negro; it is the fact of poverty amid plenty. It is a misery generated by the gulf between the affluence he sees in the mass media and the deprivation he experiences in his everyday life.

It is a spiritually impoverished nation that permits infants and children to be the poorest Americans.

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man.

It isn't poverty that breeds terrorism, but terrorism that breeds poverty.

It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.

It is not necessarily poverty of spirit that makes a woman surround herself with life - it can be a superabundance of interest.

It is our moral failure that we still tolerate poverty

It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without physic, and secure without a guard; to obtain from the bounty of nature, what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of artists and attendants, of flatterers and spies.

It is time we recognized that the real terrorism is poverty.

It is the women who are the leaders in change and without their participation poverty can never be removed.

It is poverty's speech that seeks us out the most. It is older than the oldest speech of Rome. This is the tragic accent of the scene.

It's an objective fact, that if you want to solve some of these huge, kind of bigger problems of extreme poverty, you have to include the women. They're the ones who will get it done.

It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood.

It's as if we live in a house which has a vast treasury in one of its rooms. Only we've forgotten about it. So, instead of living a life of royalty, we go about in poverty.

It's a powerful thing to know that you are empowering someone to lift themselves out of poverty.

It's going to take an act of Congress to deal with poverty and hunger, not only in this country, but throughout the world. We have the resources but we don't have the will.

It’s been proven that of all the interventions to reduce poverty, improving agricultural productivity is the best.

It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty.

It's more work to create poverty, disease and disharmony than it is to create health, harmony and abundance, because perfect health, harmony and abundance are the natural order of things.

It's not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It's not an accident. That's a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.

It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience.

It's interesting that we are sensorially deprived. And not always because of poverty or hunger, but because we have been really indoctrinated into such a way that we don't sit in the present. Technology takes the place of food often.

It's your obligation to speak the truth, and everyone can either take it or leave it. But truth must be in us. We live in such a poverty of truth today.

It would be a considerable consolation to the poor and discontented could they but see the means whereby the wealth they covet has been acquired, or the misery that it entails.

It would take little more than $50 billion to raise every poor person above the official poverty line, yet the percentage of the population classified as poor hardly budges, while annual welfare spending amounts to four times that much. Where's the money going?

I've always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I've got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I've got hold of the wrong load of trappings, and a rotten load they are too, ones I could have very well done without.

I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage.

I've come across a lot of people in my life who talk about poverty and talk about the poor, but you rarely have a sense that it matters to them to the point at which they will be willing to sacrifice something.

It's outrageous to line your pockets off the misery of the poor; It's outrageous, the crimes some human beings must endure.

I've learned so much through life. Starting off in Asia, the cultures, the people you meet, the poverty you see. It's been a great education for me, and I've loved every minute of it.

I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week.

I was becoming addicted to Bombay. There was squalor and poverty, but I had begun to realise my good fortune and would never again forget it.

I wonder what it feels like to have no desires left because you have satisfied them all, smothered them with money even before they are born. Is an existence without desire very desirable? And is the poverty of desire better than rank poverty itself?

I won't claim the workhouses didn't have their problems, but they were set up by people who cared.

I will do anything, including highway robbery and murder, to avoid leaving my children in poverty.

I would like to see many times more dollars going into the education for girls. The World Bank has some wonderful statistics in terms of the importance of educating girls as a way of lifting whole societies out of poverty.

I was trained to become an economist and I finished my work and I was teaching and did my PhD so I thought I did that. I prepared myself for that kind of road. But then I realized that I had not learned enough to solve the problem of poverty. So I distanced myself from the things that I learned and tried to learn anew about people.

I would like to thank my parents in Vergaio, a little village in Italy. They gave me the biggest gift: poverty.

I would like to solemnly reaffirm, that poverty is not a fatality.

I would put primary emphasis on a good standard of living equitably distributed. It can't be equal, but one that eliminates the terrible cruelty of poverty.