Poverty Quotes

How well a posse policy will fare in a world with 3 billion people below the poverty line and nuclear warheads scattered around a dozen or more regions like melons in a field, is not easy to imagine.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

Cuba's poverty is caused by the crackpot Marxist doctrines imposed by its sociopathic ruler and promoted by half the liberal arts professors on American faculties.

If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution.

We adults, our policies, our ways of governance, are responsible for poverty, not the children.

If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher.

The Venus Project is a translation of all religions: The end of war, the end of poverty, the brotherhood of humanity. If that isn't spiritual, like I've said before, I don't know what is.

The growing use of biofuel will be an inestimable contribution to the generation of income, social inclusion and reduction of poverty in many poor countries of the world.

We live on this very small and fragile planet: a world in which there is poverty and injustice is never going to be a safe and secure world

What hurts me most is poverty, and that's what led me to become a rebel.

Poverty, I realized, wasn't only a lack of financial resources; it was isolation from the kind of people that could help you make more of yourself.

The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.

I am poor and feeble, persecuted and vulnerable, Yeshua conquered me, and with the New Man he honored me, He delivered me from the poverty-stricken self with his great love, he cherishes me.

Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.

The camera could be a very powerful instrument against discrimination, against poverty, against racism.

We are not limited by money, but rather by the poverty of our own dreams.

A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.

Handouts are not going to end global poverty, but work - real work - just might.

Idolatry is when you become the source of your own joy. Poverty of spirit is a wonderful thing.

By 1990, no Australian child will be living in poverty.

Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.

This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty.

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 their poverty!

As long as superstition and ignorance prevail, humanity will fall short of eradicating war, poverty, and hunger.

The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.

I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective -- the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income.

Poverty. Racism. Isn't it strange, only the homeless are begging for change?

The issue of poverty is not a statistical issue. It is a human issue.

You will never become rich, until you hate poverty

The best way to fight poverty is to empower people through access to quality education

Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more.

Poverty, the existence of the poor, was the first cause of riches.

Few things have more impact than nutrition on a child's ability to survive, learn effectively and escape a life of poverty.

The illegal trade in apes has little to do with poverty. It is instead generated by the rich and powerful.

People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.

Poverty is caused by sin and disobeying the word of god.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots.

Microfinance stands as one of the most promising and cost-effective tools in the fight against global poverty.

Poverty, the mother of manhood. Also, the mother of prostitution.

There is for many a poverty of play.

You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.

There are a lot of stats and a strong correlation between dropout rates and crime as well as poverty.

There is no such thing as an acceptable level of unemployment, because hunger is not acceptable, poverty is not acceptable, poor health is not acceptable, and a ruined life is not acceptable.

They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?

Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty.