Best 2723 quotes in «poverty quotes» category

I have been poor and I wanted to document poverty; I had lost a child and I was obsessed with birth; I was interested in politics and I wanted to know how it affected our lives; I am a woman and I wanted to know about women.

I have heard it said that families with many children and high birth rates are among the cause of poverty. It seems to me a simplistic opinion. I can say that the main cause of poverty is an economic system that has removed the person from the center.

I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.

I have never met a villager who does not want a vote.

I have opened up an account With God's Heart-Bank. Therefore, I see nowhere The battering waves of poverty-thoughts.

I have seen that traditional approaches to charity and aid don't solve problems of poverty. In fact, too often they create dependence.

I have somewhere heard or read the frank confession of a Benedictine abbot: "My vow of poverty has given me a hundred thousand crowns a year; my vow of obedience has raised me to the rank of a sovereign prince." - I forget the consequences of his vow of chastity.

I have tremendous confidence in the capacity of the poor to transform not only their own lives but also to build a just, humane, and democratic society.

I just hated poverty.

I know of no system other than Hinduism under which a class has been set apart from generation to generation for the exclusive pursuit of divine knowledge and consigned to voluntary poverty.

I left Xerox for the non-profit sector because it was clear to me that only public/private partnerships can pull off a turnaround plan at the scale we need to tackle global poverty.

I know the streets, I know the system, I know poverty, and I know how it feels to be 15 and not have a safe place to go.

I lived below the official American poverty line until I was 31.

I'm not comfortable holidaying in other people's poverty.

Illegitimacy is the single most important social problem of our time - more important than crime, drugs, poverty, illiteracy, welfare or homelessness because it drives everything else.

I loathed poverty and I would have liked to put my hands on the party who said that poverty is an honorable estate. It is an indication of inefficiency and nothing more. There is nothing honorable or fine about it.

India is a functioning democracy despite its extreme poverty, India has stayed the course.

In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and poor, if only those resources can be unleashed in the service of all peoples.

In a sense, Britain inadvertently, through its actions in Hong Kong, did more to reduce world poverty than all the aid programs that we've undertaken in the last century.

Indeed, in US politics, 'poverty', along with 'welfare', 'unwed mothers' and 'crime', became code words for blacks.

Indeed, in Russia there is a terrible poverty of facts, and a terrible abundance of reflections of all sorts.

Information without execution is poverty.

Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education.

Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man, Inhibition, which does men great harm and great good. Inhibition attaches to poverty, boldness to wealth.

In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

In fact, every place I've been to in Africa has a nice part, but you see the downside. Calcutta , parts of Central and South America , I've seen a lot of dead bodies and a lot of sad poverty and just obliteration.

Inherited wealth may be something easily squandered, but inherited poverty is a legacy almost impossible to lose.

In imitation of our Master, we Christians are called to confront the poverty of our brothers and sisters, to touch it, to make it our own and to take practical steps to alleviate it.

In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.

In my youth, poverty enriched me, but now I can afford wealth.

In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime.

In the current economic situation, the temptation for the more dynamic economies is that of chasing after advantageous alliances that, nevertheless, can have harmful effects for poorer states, prolonging situations of extreme mass poverty of men and women and using up the earth's natural resources, entrusted to man by God the Creator-as Genesis says-that he might cultivate and protect it.

In the free market, a man born into wealth or who has otherwise acquired great riches can lose his fortune depending on how he chooses to behave. Conversely, a man born into poverty or who has lost wealth once obtained can acquire a fortune, depending, again, on how he chooses to behave.

In the matter of piety, poverty serves us better than wealth, and work better than idleness, especially since wealth becomes an obstacle even for those who do not devote themselves to it.

In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.

In this life you can take poverty, you can take failure, you can take the big things; it's the little griefs that destroy you inside.

I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.

In today's integrated world economy, ... eradicating poverty may contribute as much to U.S. security as eradicating terrorism.

Investment in AIDS will be repaid a thousand-fold in lives saved and communities held together.

I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.

I read myself out of poverty, long before I worked myself out of poverty.

I really like the reggae concepts like the culture vibe. They speak on everything that's going on, they don't have limits. They speak on politics, they speak on life, they speak on the troubles of poverty, everything. The message, the melodies and the concepts of reggae music are unbelievable.

I remember my dad came from Ireland and Scotland, and so he carried with him the fear of poverty. So when I wanted to break loose, it kind of made him very nervous.

I recognize that globalization has helped many people rise out of poverty, but it has also damned many others to starve to death. It is true that global wealth is growing in absolute terms, but inequalities have also grown and new poverty arisen.

I remember the first check I got for 'The Office,' and it made me feel sad. It ruined it. ... Because there was sort of a nobility in poverty.

I should never seek a job in my life, my mission in life is to create jobs. I am not a job seeker, I am a job giver.

I still can't go over a subway grating without looking down to see if there is some money there.

Is it possible that the environmental severity of the 1930s induced-particularly in the most aware, alert, and compassionate of [British] men-a morality which makes no sense today?

It had been a royal time of luxury to him, with all its stings and contumelies, compared to the poverty that crept round and clipped the anticipation of the future down to sordid fact, and life without an atmosphere of either hope or fear.

It betrays a poverty of ambition if all you think about is what goods you can buy instead of what good you can do.