Poverty Quotes · Page 67

“You cannot desire to be great when you cannot even focus on 8 hours of work a day.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“A poor writer is one who names rather than represents.”

— Italo Calvino

Poverty is a mathematical proof of the fact that mankind is a big failure!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“obedience in the womb, chastity in the tomb but involuntary poverty all his days.”

— James Joyce

Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.

— Michael Harrington

“Money can't buy you happiness, but neither can poverty.”

— Jerry Dzikowski Wild Man

“A non handicapped person who relies on mendicity has allowed poverty to monopolised his destiny.”

— Elijah Onyenmeriogu

The presence of even a single poor child on the street means a million defeats for mankind.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Terrorism isn't insanity. It grows out of social conditions that are well known: poverty, social oppression, dictatorship, and a void of meaning…

— Deepak Chopra

“A sharp decline in actual deprivation may, paradoxically, have been accompanied by an ongoing and even escalating sense of fear of deprivation.”

— Alain de Botton

While all too many people live in dire poverty, others are caught up in materialism and lifestyles which are destructive of family…

— Pope Francis

I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.

— Mark Twain

It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out…

— Sherrod Brown

The wiping out of millions of homes took away Black and Brown wealth. It drove poverty, it drove unemployment, it drove people…

— Jesse Jackson

Poverty makes it very difficult in an already competitive world for kids to get on a straight track where they can actually…

— Anna Deavere Smith

I know that, throughout the world, there are good men and women concerned with the greatest challenges facing society today - poverty,…

— Nelson Mandela

Depression is not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain, and it is not cured by medication. Depression may not even…

— Irving Kirsch

“Power is given only to those you allow to have power over you. No man was born with a master. The only…

— Suzy Kassem

“Still, connecting others to the world economy -voluntarily, by pressure, and even by force- constituted, in principle, their only road to sustained…

— Azar Gat

Nowadays, by contrast, Christianity specialises in soft-focus mood music; its threats of hell, its demand for poverty and chastity, its doctrine that…

— A.C. Grayling

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother…

— Narendra Modi

The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside by a generous hand. But- and this is the point- who…

— Annie Dillard

When people grow up in atmospheres of violence or atmospheres of poverty, they don't normally use hi-falutin' language to describe those things.…

— Philipp Meyer

Many people might wonder why conserving wildlife should be considered so important when there are wider issues of global and national interest,…

— David Lidington

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

— Anatole France

Realism is condemned by those artists whose poverty of technique does not permit them to express it.

— Walter J. Phillips

If one is experiencing poverty, practice ordinary and extreme generosity - this is the antidote.

— Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.

— A. A. Gill

It is poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

— Anonymous

If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are.

— Carol Vorderman

REJECT ALL FORMS OF CORRUPTION THAT DIVERT RESOURCES FROM THE POOR

— Pope Francis

“The first thing you need to know in order to properly measure your time is that you must not delay.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Violence, poverty and health disparities have many inputs.

— Leana S. Wen

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

— Herbert Hoover

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.

— Jimmy Carter

Being poor is not like being a victim. Being poor means that you don't have one resource.

— Kathy Calvin

We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.

— Charles Lamb

The fruit of love's great tree is poverty; Whoever knows this knows humility.

— Farid al-Din Attar

Poverty didn't necessarily engender an envy of wealth; sometimes it might beget a passion for decency.

— Patricia Hampl

“there was daunting poverty, and there was haunting wealth and the narrator warned her to keep to herself”

— Alix Olson