Poverty Quotes

2493 Poverty quotes by 1419 unique authors

If we are genuinely concerned about the environment and the fellow human beings, and want to end territorial disputes, war, crime, poverty, hunger, and the… — Jacque Fresco
As long as superstition and ignorance prevail, humanity will fall short of eradicating war, poverty, and hunger. — Jacque Fresco
The Venus Project is a translation of all religions: The end of war, the end of poverty, the brotherhood of humanity. Â If that isn't… — Jacque Fresco
What will drive people if they don't have money or reward? The reward is the end of war, the end of poverty, most crime, and… — Jacque Fresco
People say that the monetary system produces incentive. Â This may be true in limited areas, but it also produces greed, embezzlement, corruption, pollution, jealousy,… — Jacque Fresco
A Resource-Based Economy is in the application of the methods of science with human concern and environmental concern. If we used the scientific method throughout… — Jacque Fresco
It's clear that agriculture, done right, is the best means the world has today to simultaneously tackle food security, poverty and environmental degradation. — Irene Rosenfeld
The mounting burden of taxation not only undermines individual incentives to increased work and earnings, but in a score of ways discourages capital accumulation and… — Henry Hazlitt
If you believe that when the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, then you believe that creating wealth causes poverty, and you're an idiot, — Michael Medved
My father was a basketball player, so I loved basketball because he did. It was a direct transference. But, more than that, basketball, in the… — Sherman Alexie
There are 200 million poor in the world who would gladly take the vow of poverty if they could eat, dress and have a home… — Fulton J. Sheen
To be conscious of being poor while praying for riches is to be rewarded with that which you are conscious of being, namely, poverty. Prayers… — Neville Goddard
My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance,… — Ellen Wilkinson
The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of… — Arthur Hertzberg
A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he only means that,… — James Payn
A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the good of humanity… — James Payn
You are destined to reign in life. You are called by the Lord to be a success, to enjoy wealth, to enjoy health, and to… — Joseph Prince
Sara Scherr and Jeff McNeely have given us a thoughtful, sensible book about a topic of great importance to the world. There is no food… — Ismail Serageldin
You can’t lose with the stuff I use!”; “Some may say money is the root of all evil, but being in poverty is a damn… — Reverend Ike
Many of the tribal reservations today remain mired in poverty and alcoholism because many native [sic] Americans continue to cling to the darkness of indigenous… — Bryan Fischer
In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates… — Ahmed Ben Bella
We have common enemies today. It's called childhood poverty. It's called cancer. It's called AIDS. It's called Parkinson's. It's called Muscular Dystrophy. — Jerry Doyle
America has a critical place to play in the end of extreme poverty. — Hugh Evans
People don't need to become more aware of poverty—they need to know how to end it, — Hugh Evans
The single greatest effect on student achievement is not race, it is not poverty - it is the effectiveness of the teacher. — Harry Wong

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