Poverty Quotes - Page 13

Abject poverty is demeaning, is an assault on the dignity of those that suffer it. In the end it demeans us all. It makes the freedom of all of us less meaningful.

Poor and afflicted and oppressed people have faces, and we are required to look squarely into them. We can't love what we won't experience.

I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

Poverty can lead to tyranny. Capitolism creates freedom. If the poor had a better image of the rich they could be just like them.

Beggars can't be choosers.

There is no Them. There are only facets of Us.

Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.

The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.

Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.

Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.

It is our moral failure that we still tolerate poverty

Today they say that we are free, only to be chained in poverty.

As long as there is poverty there will be gods.

For the first time in human history, society has the capacity, the knowledge and the resources to eradicate poverty

Poverty and wealth inequality are a form of instability into the future.

Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself.

The worst part of great poverty is that you become blind to it.

When a society lacks God, even prosperity is joined by a terrible spiritual poverty.

A way has to be found to enable everyone to benefit from the fruits of the earth, and not simply to close the gap between the affluent and those who must be satisfied with the crumbs falling from the table, but above all to satisfy the demands of justice, fairness and respect for every human being.

Extreme poverty is not only a condition of unsatisfied material needs. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness.

You're either in a position of abundance or you're in a position of poverty. Now, that's every area of your life. That's not just financially.

Drinking Garri doesnt mean you're poor, but allowing the garri to swell-up before drinking is Poverty

Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: But with poverty everything becomes frightful.

Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.