Poverty Quotes · Page 73

Education is the key to opportunity. It's a ticket out of poverty.

— George H. W. Bush

The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.

— Gideon Welles

Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth and other social problems.

— Kailash Satyarthi

Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body

— Anonymous

The traveler without money will sing before the robber. [Lat., Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.]

— Juvenal

You have to be interested in inequality. The issue of inequality and that of poverty are not separable.

— Amartya Sen

“The majority of people on earth are ignorant of what their time should be used for.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Millions of Americans instinctively associate “poverty” with “black.”

— David Cay Johnston

To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuffbox, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles…

— Thomas Browne Sr

“The current danger for most of us is not the deprivation suffered by our ancestors but an excess of nutrition.”

— Randolph M. Nesse

“...the oppressor is truly repressed. Their poverty is existential, often surrounded by an abundance of material goods. (Leonardo Boff, p. 179)”

— Mev Puleo

The riches of successful entrepreneurs is not the cause of anybody's poverty; it is the consequence of the fact that the consumers…

— Ludwig von Mises

When a poor man begs for your help , his pride is hurt. Then you dont deal another blow to his pride…

— Ritu Ghatourey

Poor America, of what avail is all her wealth, if the individuals comprising the nation are wretchedly poor? If they live in…

— Emma Goldman

I'm calling for all responsible Americans to fight back and punish Pepsi for using a man who degrades women, who encourages substance…

— Bill O'Reilly

State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from…

— Ernie Fletcher

The way to plan the family is natural family planning, not contraception...This (use of contraceptives) turns the attention to self and so…

— Mother Teresa

Guys! While your'e BUSY ignoring your lady, another guy is TRYING really hard to get her attention. While your'e too busy for…

— London Mond

The secret of culture is to learn, that a few great points steadily reappear, alike in the poverty of the obscurest farm,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The life of the community, both domestically and internationally, clearly demonstrates that respect for rights, and the guarantees that follow from them,…

— Pope Benedict XVI

For black America needs a politics whose first mission isn't the reinforcement of the idea of black America; and a discourse of…

— Anonymous

...Meg learned to love her husband better for his poverty, because it seem to have made a man of him, giving him…

— Louisa May Alcott

The millions currently trapped in poverty and despair are a tremendous untapped resource. Just think of what it would mean for America…

— Marco Rubio

Development is a fundamental part of our national security. It is extreme poverty - the realities of access to water and food…

— Rajiv Shah

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

— Karl Marx

Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.

— Shane Claiborne

Terrorism really flourishes in areas of poverty, despair and hopelessness, where people see no future

— Colin Powell

“When school vacates, your life vacates alongside. What a tragedy! What a waste of life!”

— Sunday Adelaja

You can't tackle climate change until you tackle poverty.

— Hugh Jackman

“No matter how poor a person is, if they have a family than they are rich.”

— Someone You've Probably Never Heard Of

“The societies which do not learn to coexist in peace always live in fear and poverty. From: One Vs All”

— Dr.Ashok Anand

European countries give much larger shares of aid for poverty relief than the U.S.

— Angus Deaton

“Rich must thank poor; if poor unite, rich will have no place to hide.”

— Vinita Kinra

It's deprivation that makes people writers, if they have it in them to be a writer.

— William Maxwell

By helping investors create jobs in Africa and Asia we will help lift millions out of poverty.

— Penny Mordaunt

The only way for us to come out of poverty is to work hard. Poverty means begging throughout the world.

— Ousmane Sembene

Every time I do interviews, they ask me about the same things - poverty, war, and the power of the church.

— Ian Brown

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

— Samuel Johnson

Poor man eyes a rich man, denigrates his property. A rich man eyes a poor man, and envies his simplicity.

— The Rolling Stones

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

— Georges Bernanos