Poverty Quotes - Page 18

I have tremendous confidence in the capacity of the poor to transform not only their own lives but also to build a just, humane, and democratic society.

The main cause of poverty is self-inflicted fear and ignorance.

Food sovereignty... is most of all characterized by it’s conversations around how to end hunger and poverty.

I have heard it said that families with many children and high birth rates are among the cause of poverty. It seems to me a simplistic opinion. I can say that the main cause of poverty is an economic system that has removed the person from the center.

The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life-until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty.

Excellence in health means devoting your life to ending poverty.

As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg

Let us remind ourselves that our work is far from complete. Where there is poverty and sickness, including AIDS, where human beings are being oppressed, there is more work to be done. Our work is for freedom for all.

The only place where poverty should be is in museums.

There are millions and millions of people who are thrown in the midst of poverty and starvation. Animals don't die of starvation, only human beings.

When poverty is more disgraceful than even vice, is not morality cut to the quick?

In my youth, poverty enriched me, but now I can afford wealth.

Poverty is not deprivation, it is isolation.

Wealth is a great sin in the eyes of God. Poverty is a great sin in the eyes of man.

Time and again we’ve seen that reducing poverty comes down to economic opportunity-not just connecting the poor to services like banking, but ensuring they can be producers on fair terms in the global economy.

Don't knock the rich. When did a poor person give you a job?

Poverty hides itself in thought before it surrenders to purses.

I decided that the whole idea of what it means to be an artist was that somehow you are ontologically oriented toward poverty : "As an artist, you don't make money." I had to figure out some kind of way to guarantee that I'd be able to continue doing the work that I wanted to do, whether I made money from the work I was doing or not.

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Poverty" Pitt exclaimed "is no disgrace but it is damned annoying." In the contemporary United States it is not annoying but it is a disgrace.

Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits.

There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.