Poverty Quotes - Page 14

She lived almost fifty years of her life completely dedicated to the care of the poor and the marginalized. Astonishingly, for those nearly fifty years she identified completely with the poor she served by her own experience of being seemingly unwanted and unloved by God. In a mystical way — through this painful interior "darkness" — she tasted their greatest poverty of being "unwanted, unloved, and uncared for."

I know what poverty is.

Poverty is not a sin; it is a condition, a circumstance that allows God's work to be displayed.

Only that which lasts forever is real. That which is done in the temple lasts forever; therefore, the temple is the real world. Most of what we experience "out there," such as sickness, wealth, poverty, fame, etc., lasts for only a short period of time, so it is not the real world.

Poverty anywhere is a danger to prosperity everywhere

While the Taliban connives with foreign terrorists, the Afghan people suffer from poverty, drought and hunger.

We must start talking differently about poverty--and start doing something differently.

He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

Poverty isn’t solved with donations.

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn't it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule.

To live in poverty is to live with constant uncertainty, to accept galling indignities, and to expect harassment by the police, welfare officials and employers, as well as by others who are poor and desperate.

If poverty makes man groan, he yawns in opulence. When fortune exempts us from labor, nature overwhelms us with time.

Poverty is not really as much of an obstacle to educational expansion as it's sometimes made out to be.

There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value.

Empty pockets make empty heads.

An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.

The international trading system was devised by the rich to suit their needs; it ignores those of the poor.

Lack of money rivets us firmly to the ground, one's wings are clipped.

In a sense, Britain inadvertently, through its actions in Hong Kong, did more to reduce world poverty than all the aid programs that we've undertaken in the last century.

Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.

The driving thing was for me to get out of the poverty that we lived in... My mother always used to say that we were as good as anyone else.

Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty.

As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid.