Poverty Quotes - Page 15

The horse on the treadmill may be very discontented, but he is not disposed to tell his troubles, for he cannot stop to talk.

Boredom is the keynote of poverty - of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with - for where there is no money there is no change of any kind.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

Poverty can turn a person into a flaming torch for change and revolution, without which mankind would come to a standstill.

For each of the four hundred and four bodily ailments celebrated physicians have produced infallible remedies, but the malady which brings the greatest distress to mankind - to even the wisest and cleverest of us - is the plague of poverty.

The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of the weak by the strong, which leave so many "in shallows and in miseries," are the decrees of a large, far-seeing benevolence.

The capitalist system has lifted mankind out of mass poverty. It is this system that in the last century, in the last generation, even in the last decade, has acceleratively been changing the face of the world, and has provided the masses of mankind with amenities that even kings did not possess or imagine a few generations ago.

The English are probably more capable than most peoples of making revolutionary change without bloodshed. In England, if anywhere,it would be possible to abolish poverty without destroying liberty.

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

We must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment; of fear itself only should we be afraid.

I won't claim the workhouses didn't have their problems, but they were set up by people who cared.

I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.

As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work

There is so much joy in native culture but so much poverty. It's very disturbing.

Finally I got to the point where I said, I'd like to start a project where we can actually talk about race and poverty, not through the lens of a particular case, but much more broadly.

China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.

The longer I live the more I mistrust theatricality, the false glamour cast by performance, the more I know its poverty beside the truths we are salvaging from the splitting-open of our lives. -from "Transcendental Etude

You, who are ashamed of your poverty, and blush for your calling, are a snob; as are you who boast of your wealth.

Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect.

There is direct correlation between a society lacking in artistic vision to lack of social conscience, i.e., crime, poverty, and senseless, violent atrocities, materialism.

The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

In the matter of piety, poverty serves us better than wealth, and work better than idleness, especially since wealth becomes an obstacle even for those who do not devote themselves to it.

Poverty snatches the reins out of the hand of piety.

If we are serious about breaking cycles of poverty, we have to change this (economy).