Their Poverty Quotes

19 quotes by 18 authors

• If we are looking for one single action which will enable the poor to overcome their poverty, I would focus on credit — Muhammad Yunus
• It is easy enough to tell the poor to accept their poverty as Gods will when you yourself have warm clothes and plenty of food… — Thomas Merton
• The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase. — Leo Tolstoy
• The measure of the greatness of a society is found in the way it treats those most in need, those who have nothing apart from… — Pope Francis
• A considerable proportion of the developed world's prosperity rests on paying the lowest possible prices for the poor countries' primary products and on exporting high-cost… — Philip Agee
• A warlike nation like the Germans, without either cities, letters, arts, or money, found some compensation for this savage state in the enjoyment of liberty.… — Edward Gibbon
• Inevitably, people tell me that poor folks are lazy or unintelligent, that they are somehow deserving of their poverty. However, if you begin to look… — Bob Torres
• The whole attempt to advance the kind of consumer society that depends for its growth on the ceaseless stimulation of unlimited covetousness among the rich,… — Lesslie Newbigin
• With my union project in my hand, from town to town, from one end of France to the other, to talk to the workers who… — Flora Tristan
• Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism. — Edward Gibbon
• In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel. — Henri Nouwen
• Bless them that persecute you.' If our enemy cannot put up with us any longer and takes to cursing us, our immediate reaction must be… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• If the people of God were to transform the world through fascination, these amazing teachings had to work at the center of these peculiar people.… — Shane Claiborne
• The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road. — Iqbal Quadir
• Sri Yukteswar showed no special consideration to those who happened to be powerful or accomplished; neither did he slight others for their poverty or illiteracy.… — Paramahansa Yogananda
• In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or… — Denis Diderot
• Give beer to those who are perishing, wine to those who are in anguish; let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery… — Bible
• The more is given the less people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
• Some guys mistake their Poverty for a Woman is Demanding — Koblet

Who Wrote These Their Poverty Quotes

18 authors contributed a total of 19 Their Poverty Quotes as follows:

• 2 Their Poverty Quotes by Edward Gibbon
• 1 Their Poverty Quote by Lesslie Newbigin
• 1 Their Poverty Quote by Flora Tristan
• 1 Their Poverty Quote by Henri Nouwen
• 1 Their Poverty Quote by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• 1 Their Poverty Quote by Shane Claiborne
• 1 Their Poverty Quote by Iqbal Quadir
• 1 Their Poverty Quote by Paramahansa Yogananda
• 1 Their Poverty Quote by Denis Diderot
• 1 Their Poverty Quote by Bible
• 1 Their Poverty Quote by Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
• 1 Their Poverty Quote by Koblet
• 1 Their Poverty Quote by Muhammad Yunus
• 1 Their Poverty Quote by Thomas Merton
• 1 Their Poverty Quote by Leo Tolstoy
• 1 Their Poverty Quote by Pope Francis
• 1 Their Poverty Quote by Philip Agee
• 1 Their Poverty Quote by Bob Torres