Poverty Quotes

2493 Poverty quotes by 1419 unique authors

The Millennium Declaration was a solemn pledge to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty. — Kevin Watkins
With an agenda dominated by global security and U.N. reform, it appears that the decisions needed to lift millions of people from abject poverty are… — Kumi Naidoo
If not one more cent in new aid money flowed [to Africa], we could with more urgency and efficiency and creativity be doing much more… — Kumi Naidoo
Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear. — Chanakya
The house of a childless person is a void, all directions are void to one who has no relatives, the heart of a fool is… — Chanakya
In the past we used to think of poverty in absolute terms - meaning straightforward material deprivation... We need to think of poverty in relative… — David Cameron
We must begin by acknowledging that there is a complete absence of two things in Indian Society. One of these is equality. On the social… — B R Ambedkar
There are major disappointments with the outcomes of Solidarity: corruption, and major pockets of economic backwardness and even poverty. By and large, though, if there… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
Realism is condemned by those artists whose poverty of technique does not permit them to express it. — Walter J. Phillips
While the Taliban connives with foreign terrorists, the Afghan people suffer from poverty, drought and hunger — Jack Straw
To me the early childhood story is an ecumenical one. You take poverty seriously. You take seriously maternal depression. You take seriously children under stress… — Robert Manne
Corruption is a major cause of poverty as well as a barrier to overcoming it, .. The two scourges feed off each other, locking their… — Peter Eigen
This so much joy! This so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a… — Emily Dickinson
When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name. — Lyndon B. Johnson
Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance. — Lyndon B. Johnson
For the first time in our history it is possible to conquer poverty. — Lyndon B. Johnson
The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean poverty-the… — Eugene O'Neill
If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father. — Jean de la Bruyere
Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit. — Jean de la Bruyere
Small leisure have the poor for grief. — John Greenleaf Whittier
The measure of the wealth of a nation is indicated by the measure of its protection of its industry; the measure of the poverty of… — Henry Clay
Poverty only tries men's souls. It is loneliness that breaks the heart. — Sam Rayburn
We started the AIDS virus. We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding… — Jeremiah
Thoughts and words form your mental image. And since we become what we picture be sure your thoughts and words express prosperity and blessing rather… — Norman Vincent Peale
Concentrate on poverty and you will be poor. — James Van Fleet

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