Poverty Quotes

2493 Poverty quotes by 1419 unique authors

Many problems that challenge us today can be traced back to a profound tension between what is good and desirable for society as a whole… — Martin Nowak
Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers and… — Samuel Griswold Goodrich
Government-to-government foreign aid promotes statism, centralized planning, socialism, dependence, pauperization, inefficiency, and waste. It prolongs the poverty it is designed to cure. Voluntary private investment… — Henry Hazlitt
I have no patience for those who say that poverty is a blessing. Poverty is the greatest curse on earth. — Roger McDonald
Peace is something more than the absence of war, although some nations would be thankful for that alone today. A durable and equitable peace system… — Willy Brandt
With poverty everything becomes frightful. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
...it is proper that the duty of helping the poor and unfortunate should especially stir Catholics, since they are members of the Mystical Body of… — Pope John XXIII
If with so little we have done so much in Brazil, imagine what could have been done on a global scale, if the fight against… — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things. — Seneca the Younger
You have to go through cycles of extreme poverty and suffering for a while; they are used to that...They get up early, run hard, rest… — Keith Brantly
At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark… — Thomas Merton
The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man and the limitless kindness of God. — William Barclay
Sometimes I want to ask God why He allows poverty, famine, and injustice when He could do something about it, but I'm afraid he might… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
There is provided an escape from the narrowness and poverty of the individual life, and the possibility of a life which is other and larger… — Unknown Author
Who lives in true poverty - The janitor who is grateful for the chocolate chip pancakes his 6 year old helped his wife prepare for… — Julia Rose
Given the proper suggestion, the Subconscious Mind will manifest success from failure, health from disease, prosperity from poverty, friendship and love from loneliness and isolation.… — Uell Stanley Andersen
How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in… — Henry George
The art of our time, sacred art included, will necessarily be characterized by a certain poverty, grimness and roughness which correspond to the violent realities… — Thomas Merton
It (LSD) opened my eyes. We only use one-tenth of our brain. Just think of what we could accomplish if we could only tap that… — Paul McCartney
If the Fed had a war on abortion like its war on poverty or war on drugs, within five years men would be having abortions! — Harry Browne
When you resolve to become pious, the devil in your nature cries out at you, "Tread not those paths, O confused one; distress and poverty… — Unknown Author
Going in is really more of an acknowledgment that kids in poverty, in their situations, can get out of it, and it doesn't always come… — Marshall Faulk
The driving thing was for me to get out of the poverty that we lived in... My mother always used to say that we were… — Pat O'Shane
To block the construction of centralized power projects, as not being 'appropriate' or 'sustainable' is to condemn billions of people to continued poverty and disease-and… — Unknown Author
The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life-until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became… — Peter Kreeft

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