Poverty Quotes - Page 20

No one is kept in poverty by a shortness in the supply of riches, there is more than enough for all.

Information without execution is poverty.

There is so much poverty and desperation in South Sudan, and yet each side is militarily equipped.

The debt-habit is the twin brother of poverty.

To give either to any public matter of interest or to any concern of my own, but I am in utter poverty by reason of my devotion to the god .

To say that poverty explains terror is to slander those caught in poverty who choose to lead worthy lives. [Terrorists] are not the oppressed, but they are the parasites of the oppressed.

Socialism and communism are set up so that a select few elite get most of everything and the rest of society is equally miserable in poverty and oppression. So if you can be in the ruling party elite, socialism, communism, you've got it made. That's less than one half of one-tenth a percent of the population in those countries.

Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.

Every problem born of our poverty brought with it a sense of impotence: No escape, no help, anywhere!

Bobby Kennedy is so concerned with poverty because he didn't have any as a kid.

Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as poverty of what it has not.

The tyranny of relativism is the spiritual poverty of our time

In imitation of our Master, we Christians are called to confront the poverty of our brothers and sisters, to touch it, to make it our own and to take practical steps to alleviate it.

If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to

Far from the West having caused the poverty in the Third World, contact with the West has been the principal agent of material progress there.

Poverty is not an act of God. It is the result of flawed policy, and that is a moral challenge.

The poor are the human manure in which grow the harvests of life, the harvests of joy which the rich reap.

With poverty everything becomes frightful.

Shallow understanding accompanies poor compassion; great understanding goes with great compassion.

There are worse things than poverty, though I can't for the moment remember what they are.

Poverty was not created by God. It is we who have caused it, you and I through our egotism.

We need to realize that poverty doesn't only consist of being hungry for bread, but rather it is a tremendous hunger for human dignity. We need to love and to be someone for someone else

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

I've said that, that I've felt like as Christians and particularly even as Republicans, we needed to address issues that touched the broader perspective, and that included disease, hunger, poverty, homelessness, the environment.

The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.