Poverty Quotes
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State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need from remedy.
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People don't need to become more aware of poverty - they need to know how to end it.
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Virtue often trips and falls over the sharp edge of poverty.
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We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it.
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You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.
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One would think that by the second decade of the twenty-first century, the intellectual poverty of technocracy and the primacy of politics over it would be a well-established truth in need of no further defense.
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The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
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God does not create poverty; we do, because we do not share.
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It was hard to believe there was so much money in all this bitter and poverty-stricken world. So much money, so very much money, and someone else had it, someone who took it lightly and didn't need it.
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One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however, are started by well-fed people with the time on their hands to dream up half-baked ideologies or grandiose ambitions, and to nurse real or imagined grievances.
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To be able to proclaim the Good News to the poor we must know what is poverty.
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Beyond poverty, beyond the point that the material needs are reasonably satisfied, only from within is peace.
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Better to live hundred years as a millionaire, than one week in poverty!
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I had an extraordinary belief in myself. For years people told me to give it up and even though I was poverty- stricken, I never thought I should give it up.
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There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.
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Our poverty is freedom. This is our poverty - the giving up our freedom to dispose of things, to choose, to possess
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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 throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!
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It is the women who are the leaders in change and without their participation poverty can never be removed.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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The Right insists that anyone can escape poverty by working hard but that is simply not the case.
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A call girl is simply someone who hates poverty more than she hates sin.
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Poverty has strange bedfellows.
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Although they are some of the hardest working folks I know, rural Americans earn, on average, $11,000 less than their urban counterparts each year. And they are more likely to live in poverty.
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The popularity of the famous device of the use of lands into England is said to be largely due to the mendicant friars of the then new Orders of St. Dominic and St. Francis, who, arriving in this country, in the first half of the thirteenth century, found themselves hampered by their own vows of poverty, no less than by the growing feeling against Mortmain in acquiring the provision of land absolutely necessary for their rapidly developing work.
