Poverty Quotes · Page 60

While Jamaica is a tropical paradise, there is much poverty.

— Cedella Marley

If poverty was to be sold three cents today, i can't buy it.

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.

— Bill Gates

“Time is the raw material from which products are made, when products are sold, money is made.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“For you to be great, you must learn to convert every second of your life.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Growing up, I was poor. In college, I was poor. I never had anything.

— Jon Jones

The World Has Divided into Rich and Poor as at No Time in History

— Maude Barlow

Sometimes poverty is the greatest gift you can ever be given. Sometimes loss is the key that leads you to gain.

— Suze Orman

I believe that those who believe in the power of human rights must find new ways to address economic injustice - and…

— Pamela Yates

For as long as I am alive, I will not rest in my desire to lead my people out of an abyss…

— Fawzia Koofi

Poor people know poor people, and rich people know rich people. It is one of the few things La Rochefoucauld did not…

— Moss Hart

Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better.…

— Marian Wright Edelman

I myself am from a very poor background; I experienced firsthand poverty in this country, and that is not unrelated to my…

— Thein Sein

“The lords themselves are responsible for making the poor people their enemy. They do not want to remove the cause of insurrection,…

— Thomas Müntzer

“The people who say poverty is no excuse for low performance are now using teacher accountability as an excuse for doing nothing…

— David Berliner

The causes of crime are very complicated. But there is a very big literature, as you know, about single parenthood in crime,…

— Bill Bennett

I fundamentally believe that politics is counterintuitive. The left think they're helping working people by providing more rights, but all that actually…

— Louise Mensch

For each of the four hundred and four bodily ailments celebrated physicians have produced infallible remedies, but the malady which brings the…

— Ihara Saikaku

I wanted to win to feed the hungry people of my community. I didn't want to win to buy a diamond.. I…

— Mr. T

As long as there is poverty in the world I can never be rich, even if I have a billion dollars. As…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Jesus lived in occupied territory, in poverty and misery, and his stories and preaching are all about food, land, liberation from bondage…

— Megan McKenna

It was this desire for a feeling of importance that led an uneducated, poverty-stricken grocery clerk to study some law books he…

— Dale Carnegie

It's quite possible to arrive in the year 2030 where people are no longer dying of poverty. We could actually help lead…

— Jeffrey Sachs

I do get scared about the physical danger from drug dealers. But it's not in the same league as the danger I…

— Jonathan Kozol

“But the lesson of those years is that the ruling class can't be relied upon to redistribute wealth and power.”

— Selina Todd

You learn pretty fast that there is no magic solution to poverty.

— Chris Hughes

“no poverty of any kind, except of conversation, appeared—but there, the deficiency was considerable.”

— Jane Austen

“Poor people are subject to fancies — this is a provision of nature.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Wisdom adorneth riches and casteth a shadow over poverty.

— Socrates

“When you are able to create values in yourself or in others then you have won the race.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Poverty doesn’t allow of honourable feeling, any more than of compassion.”

— George Gissing

I shovel [money] out, and God shovels it back...but God has a bigger shovel!

— R. G. LeTourneau

Prosperity without freedom is just another form of poverty.

— Barack Obama

Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.

— Anonymous

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“For you not to waste or spend your life, you must first understand that time is life and life is time.”

— Sunday Adelaja

The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.

— Oscar Wilde

“Everybody potentially can be great. It is not only some few people who could be great.”

— Sunday Adelaja

And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.

— Libba Bray

Progress is more plausibly judged by the reduction of deprivation than by the further enrichment of the opulent

— Amartya Sen