Best 2723 quotes in «poverty quotes» category

Seeing myself or my church or my denomination as "the blessing" — like so many mission trips to help "those less fortunate than ourselves" — can easily descend into a blend of  benevolence and paternalism. We can start to see the "poor" as supporting characters in a big story about how noble, selfless, and helpful we are.

Seeing the poor as one vast homogenous mass, we overlook that saving ten children from a painful death by hunger does make a real difference, all the difference for these children, and that this difference is quite significant even when many other children remain hungry.

Self-improvement is possible only through time conversion in solitude.

Self-discovery is the key to knowing what to do with your life.

Se não tem escola, passa para a sacola

Self-observation is simply the observation of an internal state and an external event. It is pure awareness, which gives one the ability to choose one's actions. Only by having the choice can one perform what is right.

Ser pobre implica una más inmediata posesión de la realidad, un atropellar el primer gusto áspero de las cosas: conocimiento que parece faltar a los ricos, como si todo les llegara filtrado.

Seven thousand of them were indicted and arraigned, and then they entered the maw of the criminal justice system—right here—through the gateway into Gibraltar, where the vans were lined up. That was about 150 new cases, 150 more pumping hearts and morose glares, every week that the courts and the Bronx County District Attorney's Office were open. And to what end? The same stupid, dismal, pathetic, horrifying crimes were committed day in and day out, all the same. What was accomplished by assistant D.A.'s, by any of them, through all this relentless stirring of the muck? The Bronx crumbled and decayed a little more, and a little more blood dried in the cracks. The Doubts! One thing was accomplished for sure. The system was fed, and those vans brought in the chow.

She fell on the bread and cheese as if she were a lioness. Did lions eat cheese? He didn’t know. He knew Mrs Prater’s kitten ate cheese. He ate anything. Poor bloody animal. Still, he was a slum cat, no reason why his life should be better than a humans' sad ruddy existence.

She had developed a number of habits in her younger years, none of which carried with them a bright future, and the things she would offer to do for a couple of dollars would make the Devil blush.

She had spears of straw and grass in her hair, not like Ophelia gone mad through contact with Hamlet's madness, but because she had slept in some stable loft.

She had been the daughter of a half-insane, mean old woman and an ineffective alcoholic father, and she had grown up poor and unwanted. She had been an unmarried welfare mother and finally become a drunk herself.

She is drawn to the river, and all its hideous, dead-eyed treasures: rot-bloated cats, and cold-meat corpses of unwanted infants, eels plucking at their tender fingers and toes.

Since time comes in seconds, in minutes and in hours, we must learn to convert time, else, it will slip away and can never be regained.

She’s a lean vixen: I can see the ribs, the sly trickster’s eyes, filled with longing and desperation, the skinny feet, adept at lies. Why encourage the notion of virtuous poverty? It’s only an excuse for zero charity. Hunger corrupts, and absolute hunger corrupts absolutely,

Sigh: who was it who said that to get into heaven, you needed a letter of recommendation from the poor?

Silently, she wondered whether this was the same desperation, the same impotence that grips many men by their shirts, their T-shirts, their work vests, gripping them equally hard, shaking them and leading them to drink,to beating or the noose. Was this it?

Since life is in time, since life is in seconds, minutes, and hours; that means to waste time is to waste life.

Since life is in time, since life is in seconds, minutes and hours; that means to waste time is to waste life. To lose time is to lose a life. So don’t waste time!

Since your life evaporates quickly, it is wisdom to learn how to number your days. Not just to number your days but to make each passing day productive.

Six shillings a week does not keep body and soul together very unitedly.

Skeçler yazıp sirk müdürüne götürdüm. Bana, "Ne yazık ki zencisiniz." diye cevap verdiler. Kıvırcık saçlarımla, esmer tenimi ne kadar sevdiğimi unutuyorlar halbuki. Hatta zencilerin saçlarını beyazlarınkinden daha muntazam buluyorum. Bizim saçlarımız daha uysaldır, istediğimiz yerde kalır. Beyazlarınki ise en küçük bir baş hareketinde yer değişir.

Smiling is not a choice It’s a Lifestyle Pass it on

So because you are converting it, you are actually conserving it.

So because you are converting it, you are winning back your time.

Social justice has to do with issues such as poverty, inequality, war, racism, sexism, abortion, and lack of concern for ecology because what lies at the root at each of these is not so much someone's private sin but rather a huge, blind system that is inherently unfair.

So because you are converting it, you are grabbing back your life.

So because you are converting it, you are reproducing your life that way.

Social problems go beyond borders. The sores of the human race, these running sores that cover the glove, don't stop at red or blue lines drawn on the map. Wherever men are ignorant and desperate, wherever women sell themselves for bread, wherever children suffer for want of instruction or a warm hearth, Les Misérables knocks on the door and says: Open up, I have come for you.

Society has got a lot of activities and attractions to steal your time and to make you think less about your diminishing life.

So I heard the boom of my father's rifle when he shot my best friend. A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that.

So I say a name, even if self-bestowed, is better than a number. In the register of the potter's field I shall soon have both. What wealth!

Solitude helps you to see life the way it is.

Solitude is a greater treasure than wealth.

Solitude is an opportunity to arrest time and convert it into products.

Solitude is a time when you go into a determined period of making the best of your time.

Solitude helps you to convert your time into the clarity of purpose.

Solitude is a way of overcoming distraction so that you can convert your time into something of worth.

Solitude allows you to be able to arrange your life only around your destiny.

Solitude always gives birth to something.

Solitude helps you to discover that you can walk through life all by yourself and that you don’t need to be dependent on anything.

Solitude is a wonderful treasure the world is still yet to discover.

Solitude allows you to sit down and work out a system that works best for you.

Solitude is a greater treasure than money.

Solitude is the machine through which time can be converted into products.

Solitude always gives birth to a product.

Solitude helps you to convert your time into clarity of purpose.

Solitude sets you free from the rat race of life.

Solitude is the greatest treasure and through it, you can rebuild your life, reorder your life and solve life’s problems.

Solitude is the measure through which you could concentrate on using your time.