Poverty Quote by Daniel Alarcón

“It was a modern massacre: urban in origin, driven by ideology, fueled by the press, and abetted by politicians from afar.”

— Helmut Walser Smith

“the “politicians who took us to war should have been given the guns and told to settle their differences themselves, instead of organizing nothing…

— Philip Jenkins

“Is it any wonder that war is senseless? It’s started by politicians. As a class, politicians have no class, and even less sense.”

— Jarod Kintz

“It’s hard to hear over the racket of gunfire. Politicians want to talk about war, but the people want to talk about peace.”

— Jarod Kintz

“What I remember most of those times is that poverty creates desperation, and desperation creates violence.”

— Studs Terkel

“poverty always breeds violence in one way or another.”

— Heather Graham

“War became less about machine-gun chatter and spectacular explosions and more about people.”

— Jerry Spinelli

“Poverty is a force that pulls down the head of the people.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“It seemed as if many times in history, when things were not so good economically or politically, the political class turned to war as…

— William Struse

“Politicians who took us to war should have been given the guns and told to settle their differences themselves, instead of organising nothing better…

— Harry Patch

“Such speech aims to tranquilize and disempower the populace, to keep us isolated and at home, seduced into helplessness, just as more direct tyrannies…

— Rebecca Solnit

“I'd used people's stories and their lives to bolster my political arguments for changing welfare. Now, however, I was running into the people themselves,…

— David Kuo