Poverty Quotes · Page 89

Can we not wage a war and emerge victorious against poverty. Let us defeat poverty.

— Narendra Modi

We have failed to fully appreciate how deeply housing is implicated in the creation of poverty.

— Matthew Desmond

To be able to proclaim the Good News to the poor we must know what is poverty.

— Mother Teresa

The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in…

— G.K. Chesterton

“We are products of the lack of understanding of the people who raised us up.”

— Sunday Adelaja

I was a kid who only played football barefoot on the streets of Sao Goncalo, close to poverty and crime.

— Vinicius Junior

The poor folk gladly came to me, for I did them no unkindness, but helped them as much as I could.

— Joan of Arc

The factory work that lifted millions out of poverty in places like China and Vietnam probably did cost some workers in North…

— Arancha Gonzalez

The psychological pain--and the ethical shame--of American poverty are made greater by the fact that this country possesses the wealth and the…

— Kenneth Keniston

“When selecting a one-night stand, a heterosexual woman who is materialistic is a trillion times more likely to choose a sexually unattractive…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explode over communities…

— Eduardo Galeano

In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to…

— Lydia Sigourney

Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families.

— Margaret Sanger

We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.

— Herodotus

Gotta start teaching the children that they can be just what they want to be, there's much more to life than poverty.

— Tupac Shakur

I understand the arguments about how the billions of dollars spent to put men on the moon could have been used to…

— Randy Pausch

We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger…

— Haile Selassie

“Pride measures prosperity not by her own advantages but by the disadvantages of others. She would not even wish to be a…

— Thomas More

We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies.…

— Maj Sjowall

“As if the parents we were born to weren't always a matter of happenstance: an elbow jostled at a bar, a muscular…

— Laura Bogart

“It may be that some disadvantaged kids who get into trouble suffer not solely from poverty or neglect, say those who hold…

— Susan Cain

When I go across the country, whether it's Albuquerque, New Mexico, whether it's Birmingham, Alabama or Milwaukee, Wisconsin, there are always forces…

— Harry Belafonte

What makes the Southern Poverty Law Center particularly odious is its habit of taking legitimate conservatives and jumbling them with genuine hate…

— Don Feder

“Cut your goals into tiny units of work and think only about one unit at a time.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“To be an effective time user, you must make sure you are spending your time on only what is important.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Mark Twain said that, outside of Vienna, all coffee was merely liquid poverty," Sarah commented.”

— Magnus Flyte

There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value.

— Albert Camus

Poverty is from the devil and that God wants all Christians prosperous.

— Benny Hinn

Hispanic children now make the largest group of children in poverty.

— Mario Diaz-Balart

I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.

— Dorothy Day

There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing.

— Shane Claiborne

“Dreams of changing the world could only be realized by properly investing time into learning.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral.

— F. Sionil Jose

You will never solve poverty without solving water and sanitation.

— Matt Damon

Lets attend an opulent New Year's Eve party so we can briefly ignore the horror of our impending poverty.

— Anonymous

“Only through the conversion of time can greatness be bought.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“A live dog is better than a dead lion, but death is preferable to poverty.”

— Salman Rushdie

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

— Sydney Smith

It isn't poverty that breeds terrorism, but terrorism that breeds poverty.

— Dan Gillerman