Poverty Quotes - Page 10

Investment in AIDS will be repaid a thousand-fold in lives saved and communities held together.

I think, social business is the most logical thing to do. If we had done that, we could reduce all the problems we have.

The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty—it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There’s a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.

When the men of antiquity realized their wishes, benefits were conferred by them on the people. If they did not realize their wishes, they cultivated their personal character, and became illustrious in the world. If poor, they attended to their own virtue in solitude; if advanced to dignity, they made the whole empire virtuous as well.

To help people emerge from the poverty, you have to understand, what are the structural causes of it? And the structural causes are partially cultural.

It has always been incomprehensible for me: people are ashamed of the poverty but aren't ashamed of the wealth.

I have been poor and I wanted to document poverty; I had lost a child and I was obsessed with birth; I was interested in politics and I wanted to know how it affected our lives; I am a woman and I wanted to know about women.

It's going to take an act of Congress to deal with poverty and hunger, not only in this country, but throughout the world. We have the resources but we don't have the will.

There is a difference between being poor and being broke. Broke is temporary, and poor is eternal.

Don't listen to the malicious comments of those friends who, never taking any risks themselves, can only see other people's failures.

You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective.

I never look at the masses as my responsibility. I look at the individual. I can love only one person at a time. I can feed only one person at a time. Just one, one, one.

Affluence creates poverty.

A pacifism which can see the cruelties only of occasional military warfare and is blind to the continuous cruelties of our social system is worthless.

The elimination of profit, whatever methods may be resorted to for its execution, must transform society into a senseless jumble. It would create poverty for all.

In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and poor, if only those resources can be unleashed in the service of all peoples.

Ending poverty and ensuring sustainability are the defining challenges of our time. Energy is central to both of them.

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

I loathed poverty and I would have liked to put my hands on the party who said that poverty is an honorable estate. It is an indication of inefficiency and nothing more. There is nothing honorable or fine about it.

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.

It’s been proven that of all the interventions to reduce poverty, improving agricultural productivity is the best.

Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

I read myself out of poverty, long before I worked myself out of poverty.

A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.