Poverty Quotes - Page 11

Poverty is not created by poor people. It is produced by our failure to create institutions to support human capabilities.

The greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing and despising them.

The fight against hunger and poverty is also predicated on the creation of a world order that accords priority to social and economic development.

For whatever reason I was born into privilege; I've never known hunger, poverty, or despair. I have been blessed, blessed, blessed--relationally, emotionally, spiritually, and physically.

Proper prospecting prevents poverty.

The more humanity owes the poor man, the more society denies him.

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.

The amount of poverty and suffering required for a Rockefeller to emerge, and the amount of depravity entailed in the accumulation of a fortune of such magnitude, are left out of the picture, and it is not always possible for the popular forces to expose this clearly.

When we take our eyes off the whirl of day-to-day activity and concentrate on honoring Him and following in His way, we find a consistent peace that carries us through both plenty and poverty.

Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.

Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness, to which those doom themselves who elect to spend all their years in that vainest of all vain pursuits-the pursuit of mere pleasure as a sufficient end in itself.

I have no patience for those who say that poverty is a blessing. Poverty is the greatest curse on earth.

It would take little more than $50 billion to raise every poor person above the official poverty line, yet the percentage of the population classified as poor hardly budges, while annual welfare spending amounts to four times that much. Where's the money going?

We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.

A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.

A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth.

Wisdom deprives even poverty of half its power.

Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

The richness of God’s Word ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

Poverty isn't being broke; poverty is never having enough.

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.

I wonder what it feels like to have no desires left because you have satisfied them all, smothered them with money even before they are born. Is an existence without desire very desirable? And is the poverty of desire better than rank poverty itself?

Ours is not a problem of the intellect but of spiritual poverty. That is why we need a Savior.

Don't be deceived when our Revolution has been finally stamped out and they tell you things are better now Even if there's no poverty to be seen because the poverty's been hidden even if you ever got more wages and could afford to buy more of these new and useless goods which these new industries foist on you and even if it seems to you that you never had so much that is only the slogan of those who still have much more than you