Poverty Quotes - Page 19

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.

Those who despise fame seldom deserve it. We are apt to undervalue the purchase we cannot reach, to conceal our poverty the better. It is a spark which kindles upon the best fuel, and burns brightest in the bravest breast.

Success is messy. But so is life. Deal with it. Poverty is messier.

Contrary to age-old prejudices, the wealth of the rich is not the cause of the poverty of the poor, but helps to alleviate that poverty.

Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.

Precisely where I feel my poverty is where I discover God's blessing.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

The folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty.

Poverty is not dated. Homeless people have looked the same since the thirteenth century. Go back to the times of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Look at photographs. It's amazing. The face on a homeless person is timeless.

Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.

A Nuns Life: Chastity, poverty, and obedience. Wait, chastity?" BUMPER STICKER

The old culture had come out of poverty, out of English customs.

Better to live hundred years as a millionaire, than one week in poverty!

The huge turnout for Live 8 here and around the world proves that thanks to the leadership from people like Tony Blair and Gordon Brown the world is beginning to demand more action on global health and poverty.

As the wealthiest nation on Earth, I believe the United States has a moral obligation to lead the fight against hunger and malnutrition, and to partner with others.

Neglect of an effective birth control policy is a never-failing source of poverty which, in turn, is the parent of revolution and crime.

Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom.

Poverty treads close upon the heels of great and unexpected wealth.

The only really Christian art is that which, like St. Francis, does not fear being wedded to poverty. This rises far above art-as-ornament.

In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness.

Poverty with security is better than plenty in the midst of fear and uncertainty.

There is a deep sadness to American poverty, greater than the sadness of any other kind. It's because America has such an ideology of success.

Whatever may be said in praise of poverty, the fact remains that it is not possible to live a really complete or successful life unless one is rich.