Poverty Quotes · Page 45

You see, the poverty program for the last five years have been buy-off programs.

— H. Rap Brown

“People who have become great have only become great because they bought that greatness with time.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Life is a great escape from deprivation and early death.”

— Angus Deaton

“To waste one hour is a proof that you lack understanding of life.”

— Sunday Adelaja

You don't have to get rich to have [fewer] children. It has happened across the world.

— Hans Rosling

“You were born for more than just living in mediocrity and dying after your time here evaporates.”

— Sunday Adelaja

I want to eradicate poverty. I think that theres a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.

— Jim Yong Kim

World Bank is a bank that's focused on economic development and poverty alleviation.

— Jim Yong Kim

Look round, the wrecks of play behold; Estates dismember'd, mortgaged, sold! Their owners now to jails confin'd, Show equal poverty of mind.

— John Gay

The extermination of millions of unborn children, in the name of the fight against poverty, actually constitutes the destruction of the poorest…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Poverty is such a relative thing; but no man is really poor till life becomes a desert island that gives him neither…

— Anonymous

Nobody wants to remain poor. Those who are poor want to move away from poverty. That is why, all our programmes must…

— Narendra Modi

“(5.) The working of the Romish system of celibacy, voluntary poverty, and monastic vows, has produced such fruits as prove the principle…

— Archibald Alexander Hodge

When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company…

— Stefan Molyneux

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the…

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to…

— Leo Tolstoy

Royce Westmoreland stared at him with biting scorn. "I despise hypocrisy, particularly when it is coated with holiness." "May I ask for…

— Judith McNaught

“When a third wave of poverty overwhelmed me, I knew with even greater certitude than when I had lived in Clerkenwell that…

— Quentin Crisp

The best antidote to poverty remains simple - a paycheck. Policies like paid family leave, workplace flexibility and affordable quality childcare can…

— Madeleine M. Kunin

“I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making…

— Benjamin Franklin

In other words: we can fight pollution and poverty at the same time, with the same method. We can beat global warming…

— Van Jones

A poor man cannot rival the rich in luxury of life, but he can in luxury of knowledge. He cannot furnish his…

— George Holyoake

“Those who would give us equal opportunity for everybody are threatened by it. They are afraid to lose their privileged positions. They…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

There's no way in which you can ever win a war against terror. As long as there are conditions in many parts…

— Desmond Tutu

Nobody would watch Lifestyles of the Poor and the Unknown.

— Robin Leach

The broad highway to poverty and need - Is, much to build and many mouths to feed

— Acilius

Giving much to the poore, doth inrich a mans store. [Giving much to the poor doth increase a man's store.]

— George Herbert

Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.

— J. C. Ryle

Poverty only tries men's souls. It is loneliness that breaks the heart.

— Sam Rayburn

When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then.

— Dennis Banks

Women are 1/2 the world population but 3/5 of those living in extreme poverty.

— Minka Kelly

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.

— Jean de la Bruyere

“I have been rich, and I have been poor. Believe me baby, rich is better!”

— Ella Fitzgerald

Poverty is not simply having no money - it is isolation, vulnerability, humiliation and mistrust.

— Megan Lee

You are not going to lift everybody out of poverty through the kindness of wealthy people.

— Winnie Byanyima

I cant solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.

— Sal Albanese

The beatitudes say, "Blessed are the poor". They don't say, "Blessed are those who care for the poor."

— Henri Nouwen

But many fail to realise that poverty ain't a choice but a situation..

— Melchor Lim

Poverty is so significant that we can't expect to overcome the impacts of poverty in schools.

— Michelle Rhee

“If you don't act like your poor, pretty soon you will be”

— Ronald A. Martin Jr