Poverty Quotes - Page 2

I recognize that globalization has helped many people rise out of poverty, but it has also damned many others to starve to death. It is true that global wealth is growing in absolute terms, but inequalities have also grown and new poverty arisen.

Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor.

Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.

Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.

There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it.

Read a textbook. It will tell you. These are the things for instance on the African continent that will contribute to immune deficiency, various tropical diseases because of poor infrastructure, general levels of poverty don’t get treated. Syphilis untreated or not properly treated, which as it happens is a big problem as I hear, gets treated, the symptoms disappear but in fact… it … that impacts on the immune system. You’ve got to deal with these things.

Nowhere in the world, in no act of genocide, in no war, are so many people killed per minute, per hour and per day as those who are killed by hunger and poverty on our planet.

You will never solve poverty without solving water and sanitation.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?

Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.

The fruit of love's great tree is poverty; Whoever knows this knows humility.

The day someone quits school he is condemning himself to a future of poverty.

Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist.

If poverty was to be sold three cents today, i can't buy it.

Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

The Curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.