Poverty Quotes

2493 Poverty quotes by 1419 unique authors

In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that when… — P.J. O'Rourke
It takes a lot of weapons to do good works (as Richard the Lionhearted could have told us). And this is not just a Somali… — P.J. O'Rourke
Your money does not cause my poverty. Refusal to believe this is at the bottom of most bad economic thinking. — P.J. O'Rourke
The poor of the world cannot be made rich by the redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty, taking… — P.J. O'Rourke
Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty. — William J. Clinton
When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas. — Evita Peron
Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized… — Kofi Annan
Learn to be pleased with everything, with wealth so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care… — Plutarch
Poverty is mean and degrading to the human spirit, whereas a life of conscious simplicity can have both a beauty and a functional integrity that… — Duane Elgin
The poverty rate among black married couples has been in single digits ever since 1994. You would never learn that from most of the media.… — Thomas Sowell
The vision of the anointed is one in which ills as poverty, irresponsible sex, and crime derive primarily from 'society,' rather than from individual choices… — Thomas Sowell
The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse.… — Thomas Sowell
It is not the high summer alone that is God's. The winter also is His. And into His winter He came to visit us. And… — George MacDonald
If you are to go to Christ, do not put on your good doings and feelings, or you will get nothing; go in your sins,… — Charles Spurgeon
Idolatry is when you become the source of your own joy. Poverty of spirit is a wonderful thing. — Paul Washer
I believe that one of the most dignified ways we are capable of, to assert and then reassert our dignity in the face of poverty… — M.F.K. Fisher
A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created — Jeane Kirkpatrick
Microloans enable the poor to lift themselves out of poverty through entrepreneurship. — Pierre Omidyar
Love is the epiphany of God in our poverty. — Thomas Merton
I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs arent paying enough to keep families out of poverty — Barbara Mikulski
The impact of NCDs is not only affecting the urban populations but also rural poor. This is compounding the basic problem of poverty. — Marty Natalegawa
A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at… — Warren E. Burger
These often unsung heroes understand...that poverty, disease and famine are just as deadly and destructive as earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis. Individuals ...are taking on these… — Kofi Annan
Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty. — Fidel Castro
It wasn't poverty that drove me on. — Aleksandr Kuprin

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