Poverty Quotes - Page 21

No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise.

War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted.

I know of no system other than Hinduism under which a class has been set apart from generation to generation for the exclusive pursuit of divine knowledge and consigned to voluntary poverty.

The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty.

Extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere.

To educate girls is to reduce poverty.

Foreign aid must be viewed as an investment, not an expense.

The deep inequalities that persist are visible reminders of the effects of apartheid and colonialism. Until these scars are healed, the vision of our Constitution will not have been achieved.

The social contract is starting to unravel in many countries.

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

Look at your own poverty welcome it cherish it don't be afraid share your death because thus you will share your love and your life

Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.

The thing that distinguishes permanent poverty is bad character.

Poverty is a lot like childbirth - you know it is going to hurt before it happens, but you'll never know how much until you experience it.

In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.

An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.

Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.

Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

Though virtue give a ragged livery, she gives a golden cognizance; if her service make thee poor, blush not. Thy poverty may disadvantage thee, but not dishonor thee.

Indeed, in US politics, 'poverty', along with 'welfare', 'unwed mothers' and 'crime', became code words for blacks.

I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.

I have somewhere heard or read the frank confession of a Benedictine abbot: "My vow of poverty has given me a hundred thousand crowns a year; my vow of obedience has raised me to the rank of a sovereign prince." - I forget the consequences of his vow of chastity.

MTV has turned more young women into whores than poverty.

Voluntary poverty isn't going around with some burlap bag around you and imitating the poor. It means being indifferent to the material, doing as Christ said. He went and sat down with the rich and Zachaeus and publicans and sinners.

When other sects speak well of Zen, the first thing that they praise is its poverty.