Poverty Quote by Judith Merkle Riley Download Open image ““Poverty is the curse of ancient but numerous lineages.”” — Judith Merkle Riley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poverty
“Poverty is a curse. Don't call it. It takes few generations to come out from the curse of poverty.” — Nazmul Ahmed Noyon Copy Share Image
“…poverty is not interesting, either to the poor or to the rich. It is the curse of the decent poor to be so utterly… — Earl Shorris Copy Share Image
“The important question of how poverty can be remedied is one which agitates and torments modern societies especially” — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“Poverty ... is a most necessary and indispensable ingredient in society, without which nations and communities could not exist in a state of civilisation.… — Patrick Colquhoun Copy Share Image
Poverty is a plague against which humanity must fight without cease. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Poverty is a giant who uses your features like a piece of cotton waste to wipe a filthy world. ” — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
“For the creator there is no poverty and no poor, indiferent place.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Poverty is like a crumb that sits at a table, and starves itself to death.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
“Throughout history, societies have suffered from two kinds of poverty: social poverty, which withholds from some people the opportunities available to others; and biological… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Why the Romans, Father?" I asked him one afternoon. "Because, my child, they teach us how to bear suffering in a world of injustice… — Judith Merkle Riley Copy Share Image
A cat improves the garden wall in sunshine, and the hearth in foul weather. — Judith Merkle Riley Copy Share Image
“Now, if God were a woman, things would be entirely different, it seemed to me. Certainly She wouldn’t make a girl get married when… — Judith Merkle Riley Copy Share Image
“He didn't want to puff her up. Puffed-up women are one of the original sources of trouble in the world. If anyone knew that,… — Judith Merkle Riley Copy Share Image
“I could feel something cold stalking my heart. It was fear. They all begin this way, I thought, with pledges of love.” — Judith Merkle Riley Copy Share Image
“How funny we are, I thought, the way we dance about each other, each afraid of being hurt by the other.” — Judith Merkle Riley Copy Share Image
“Margaret looked up at him from where she sat by the window. "Oh, Brother Gregory, what's wrong with your hand" "I'm just scratching it;… — Judith Merkle Riley Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I know that in the rap game you've got a lot of people, that come from poverty, was born in poverty and if it… — Jon Connor Copy Share Image
Give me, indulgent gods with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene, No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No well-bred hate,… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Parents who are stressed or disturbed will have more difficulty in meeting their children's needs. Parents who have little support--from friends, relatives, neighbors, or… — Sheila Kamerman Copy Share Image
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… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“In places where government priorities and market imperatives create a world so capricious that to help a neighbor is to risk your ability to… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“I've always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I've got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I've got hold… — Peter Cook Copy Share Image
Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families. — Hans Kung Copy Share Image