Best 2723 quotes in «poverty quotes» category

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

Many of my contemporaries in the developed world see subsistence farming as soulful and organic, but it is a poverty trap and an environmental disaster.

Many writers claim that nearly all crime is caused by economic conditions, or in other words that poverty is practically the whole cause of crime. Endless statistics have been gathered on this subject which seem to show conclusively that property crimes are largely the result of the unequal distribution of wealth. But crime of any class cannot be safely ascribed to a single cause. Life is too complex, heredity is too variant and imperfect, too many separate things contribute to human behavior, to make it possible to trace all actions to a single cause.

Meaningful solutions to the problems of mass poverty that prevails in India I believe can only be found in the framework of an expanding economy.

Medicare is paid for by the American taxpayer. Medicare belongs to you. Medicare is for seniors, who many of them are on fixed income, to lift them out of poverty.

Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.

Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.

Most middle-class Americans, even working-class Americans, encounter each other across racial lines all the time, but it gets really hard-core when you get into that witches' brew that is the combination of race and poverty.

Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Modernized by tin roofs and T-shirts, Third World poverty is no longer picturesque.

Money is only a vehicle that provides you with options, and I say there's only one thing that money can't buy - poverty.

MTV has turned more young women into whores than poverty.

My dad's main client was the World Bank, and he spent most of his time traveling to Third World countries. His particular interest lay in the eradication of poverty through development and business.

My children didn't have my advantages; I was born into abject poverty.

My upbringing has been pushing and pulling my work my whole life. At first it pushed me away, as I sought to clean up my mind with a style that was slick and glossy, aspirational and wrapped in fantasy. That's still largely how I approach my fashion work. More recently it's pulled me back, particularly since Katrina, and as I get older and lose some of that shame that's inherited with poverty.

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.

My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.

My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason

Neglect of an effective birth control policy is a never-failing source of poverty which, in turn, is the parent of revolution and crime.

Never be diplomatic and careful about the treasure God gives. This is poverty triumphant.

Nobody wants to remain poor. Those who are poor want to move away from poverty. That is why, all our programmes must be for the poor. All our schemes must serve the poor.

Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history of the world have so many of those same people felt themselves so poor.

Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.

No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise.

No longer can we measure compassion by how much we spend on poverty but how many people we help to lift out of poverty.

None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.

Not only subjective poverty is never overcome by growth, but absolute poverty is increased by it. ... Absolute misery grows while wealth increases.

Non-violence can truly flourish when the world is free of poverty, hunger, discrimination, exclusion, intolerance and hatred - when women and men can realize their highest potential and live a secure and fulfilling life. Until then, each and every one of us would have to contribute - collectively and individually - to build peace through non-violence.

No one is kept in poverty by a shortness in the supply of riches, there is more than enough for all.

No solution [to the problem of poverty] is so effective as providing income to the poor. Whether in the form of food, housing, health services, education or money, income is an excellent antidote for deprivation. No truth has spawned so much ingenious evasion.

Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.

Of those who die from avoidable, poverty-related causes, nearly 10 million, according to UNICEF, are children under five. They die from diseases such as measles, diarrhoea, and malaria that are easy and inexpensive to treat or prevent.

O blessed poverty, who bestows eternal riches on those who love and embrace her!

Of all the advantages which come to any young man ... poverty is the greatest.

Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.

Oh, poverty parts good company.

One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in life.

One of the glaring failures of capitalism is the continuing widespread existence of poverty - often extreme poverty. Even in the advanced economies, many millions of people endure terrible economic and social deprivation, despite the incredible wealth all around them.

Only the poor can know all the disadvantages of poverty. Only the rich can know all the disadvantages of wealth.

One ought not to encourage beggars, and yes, you are right, it is far better to donate to charities that address the causes of poverty rather than to him, a creature who is merely its symptom.

One of the things that struck me when I came to the U.S. was discovering American poverty.

Only that which lasts forever is real. That which is done in the temple lasts forever; therefore, the temple is the real world. Most of what we experience "out there," such as sickness, wealth, poverty, fame, etc., lasts for only a short period of time, so it is not the real world.

Our inability to recall how we really felt is why our wealth of experiences turns out to be poverty of riches.

Our aid is work for the American people.

Our efforts to help the poor does not mean we're going to eradicate poverty.