Poverty Quotes · Page 94

When other sects speak well of Zen, the first thing that they praise is its poverty.

— Dogen

She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.

— Samuel Richardson

The folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty.

— Edward Bellamy

“Shyness is a luxury reserved for those who are above the poverty line. To a beggar, being shy is deadly.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When poverty is more disgraceful than even vice, is not morality cut to the quick?

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“Do not allow your life to diminish without reproducing it.”

— Sunday Adelaja

To blame the existence of al Qaeda on poverty like Egypt's is a slur on the poor.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Virtue often trips and falls over the sharp edge of poverty.

— Eugene Sue

“I came to think of poverty of speech as a reflection of the richness of the mind, giving it time to explore…

— Anonymous

Take every penny you have set aside for aid for Tanzania and spend it in the UK, explaining to people the facts…

— Julius Nyerere

The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic. Peace, poverty,…

— King Hussein I

Poverty is a trap: it should be eradicated. It's no real answer just lifting a few children from families stuck on low…

— Dawn Foster

When a poor man gives something, that is a sacrifice indeed. When a rich man gives something, it hardly rises to the…

— David Baldacci

It is a beautiful thing when folks in poverty are no longer just a missions project but become genuine friends and family…

— Shane Claiborne

Whatever you focus on, expands. If you see the world through your dreams, prosperity materializes before your very eyes. If you see…

— Robert G. Allen

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from…

— Oprah Winfrey

At the beginning of this marvelous era it was natural to expect, and it was expected, that laborsaving inventions would lighten the…

— Henry George

“Here was the South Side--a million in captivity--stretching from this doorstep as far as the eye could see. And they didn't even…

— James Baldwin

The failure of the first Barack Obama administration to really deliver on a new War on Poverty and a new language to…

— Sasha Abramsky

Our people are dying, poverty and unemployment are on the rise, but the rest of the world says that Musharraf is needed…

— Benazir Bhutto

If the philosophy of Christianity were lived, wars would cease, unhappiness would cease, economic problems would be solved, poverty would be wiped…

— Ernest Holmes

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your…

— J. K. Rowling

I was told, continued Egremont, that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor; I was told that the Privileged and…

— Benjamin Disraeli

Free trade has been proven, time and again, as a reliable path to economic development. It pushes the public and private sectors…

— Jonah Goldberg

“The poor man, whose intentions were so quickly imagined for him because of the way the light hits his skin.”

— Stacey Lee

There is so much injustice in the world. Poverty and war.

— Jim Harbaugh

“We are all the product of our past and have to live with our memories and personality they cannot be erased.”

— Jane Hersey

Constant deprivation is no way to live. Don't always skip the delicious stuff for raw carrots and brown rice.

— Gunnar Peterson

“though of course poverty is no crime—we must remember that!”

— Anonymous

“Solitude allows you to be able to arrange your life only around your destiny.”

— Sunday Adelaja

None are so poor that they have nothing to give...and none are so rich that they have nothing to receive.

— Pope John Paul II

There is so much poverty and desperation in South Sudan, and yet each side is militarily equipped.

— Tom Hiddleston

“I do not believe that one can become rich without being a shark; a sensitive man will never amass wealth.”

— Petrus Borel

When work is not underpinned by social protection, people risk falling into poverty traps.

— Sharan Burrow

“A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character”

— Thomas Jefferson

Charity that does not change the situation of the poor isn't enough.

— Pope Francis

“If you knew that your time is your life, you would protect it as much as you protect your life.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“The products your life must have could be in the form of scientific discoveries you have made.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Sleep deprivation is something very serious. I didn't think it could kill you, but I think it can.

— Maryse Mizanin

There is no reason why a nation as rich as ours should be blighted by poverty, disease, and illiteracy.

— Coretta Scott King