Poverty Quotes · Page 68

“Instability is not inherent to poverty. Poor families move so much because they are forced to. Along”

— Matthew Desmond

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

— Roger Moore

The South Bronx has long been ground zero for racially concentrated poverty.

— Ritchie Torres

Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.

— Jean Paul

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

— Carolyn Wheat

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

— Jonathan Swift

What you do [to provide better aid is] you shut up. You never arrive in a community with any ideas.

— Ernesto Sirolli

“Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.”

— Jocelyn K. Glei

As long as superstition and ignorance prevail, humanity will fall short of eradicating war, poverty, and hunger.

— Jacque Fresco

It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the…

— Anonymous

Poor people always pay back their loans. [...] It is us, the designers of institutions and rules, who keep creating trouble for them.

— Muhammad Yunus

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these…

— Plato

There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.

— Indira Gandhi

What are riches - grandeur - health itself, to the luxury of a pure conscience, the health of the soul; - and…

— Ann Radcliffe

I think in some ways it would make more sense to have as a poverty level a relative concept and say, the…

— Milton Friedman

We were poor when I was young but the difference was that the government didn't come around telling you you were poor.

— Ronald Reagan

So far it has been assumed that the only pregnancies which are aborted are accidental ones and the only foetuses destroyed those…

— Germaine Greer

“I hate my country. There are so many rich people who don't share their shit. They're like spoiled little ten-year-old bullies on…

— Sherman Alexie

The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the…

— Jeremy Rifkin

Here's Williams' roadmap out of poverty: Complete high school; get a job, any kind of a job; get married before having children;…

— Walter E. Williams

Corruption is a major cause of poverty as well as a barrier to overcoming it, .. The two scourges feed off each…

— Peter Eigen

Celebrity poverty, that's the hidden scandal in Blair's Britain. You can't help but worry for them. A girl I knew developed X-ray…

— Peter York

Love floods our nervous system with positive energy, making us far more attractive to prospective employers, clients, and creative partners... Love leads…

— Marianne Williamson

A common measure of poverty is how much money you have in relation to other people - that is useful as far…

— William T. Vollmann

Stupas protect beings from 5 major disasters: war, epidemic diseases, famine, pollution, n poverty.

— Akong Rinpoche

“Life is just full of disordered pieces of unachieved plans without solitude.”

— Sunday Adelaja

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Work is the only way - the only sustainable way - to escape poverty.

— Pierre Poilievre

What's with the poverty Tourette's? Why do these two think we need a hobo for president?

— Jon Stewart

Poverty is not a lack of character. Poverty is a lack of cash.

— Rutger Bregman

Their will always be a person in need and a person with more need than that person in need

— Enrique Alcala

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.

— George Gissing

“That a poor man has no choice but to make the best of what he finds or is given.”

— Megan Derr

In the United States we have more women in poverty than any other industrialized nation.

— Patricia Arquette

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

— Clare of Assisi

Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.

— Seneca the Younger

But I'm just hungry, no I'm not poor, That's why I came here for, And no not because I needed more.

— Lil Twist

“Besides(..), it's a poor woman whose ambition is only to be loved.”

— Sarah Perry

We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.

— Pericles

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

— Albert Camus