Poverty Quotes · Page 97

An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty.

— Benjamin Carson

“The time of solitude is actually an opportunity to make time work for you.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“To be able to convert time, you must be conscious of time.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“The difference between the rich and the poor, is finding true love.”

— Anthony Liccione

He who carries the word no with him will never be poor even when he is old.

— Vikrant Parsai

Too often, I believe, liberals deny that poverty is linked to bad choices.

— Nicholas Kristof

Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty

— Eartha Kitt

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

— Bill Bennett

Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a…

— Ayrton Senna

Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels…

— Horace Greeley

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

— David Berliner

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

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

— Moss Hart

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

— Fawzia Koofi

“Why, then, make a show of the poverty of our life and our sad imperfection, unearthing people from the backwoods, from remote…

— Nikolai Gogol

A poor man asked the Buddha, Why am I so poor? The Buddha said, you do not learn to give. So the…

— Buddhism

“Does rough weather choose men over women? Does the sun beat on men, leaving women nice and cool?' Nyawira asked rather sharply.…

— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

“If you allow someone else to convert more time than you in your chosen territory, you automatically become a servant or a…

— Sunday Adelaja

I point out the Democratic party won two world wars and beat the depression, cut out the poverty by two thirds, and…

— James Carville

“Humi lity, poverty, chastity are his (the p h i los­ opher' s) way of being a grand vivant, of making a…

— Anonymous

You, that have toiled during youth, to set your son upon higher ground, and to enable him to begin where you left…

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence…

— Martin Sheen

A poor person is one who doesn't buy anything until he sees someone else buying it first.

— Vikrant Parsai

“When you have the power of time, you can take possession of your time, there is nothing you cannot become.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Poverty and nakedness are nothing, provided you have a good wife”

— Nikos Kazantzakis

“Self-discovery is the key to knowing what to do with your life.”

— Sunday Adelaja

The middle class has disappeared. We have a highway to poverty and no roads coming out.

— Suze Orman

If rich people could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living

— Yiddish Proverb

“Poverty would always exist when we allow injustices to speak.”

— Henry Johnson Jr

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice.

— Nelson Mandela

Modernized by tin roofs and T-shirts, Third World poverty is no longer picturesque.

— Mason Cooley

“As we will show, poor countries are poor because those who have power make choices that create poverty.”

— Daron Acemoğlu

“When I was poor, I was rich because I was happy; when I was wealthy, I was poor because I was sad.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Solitude is an opportunity to arrest time and convert it into products.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“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