Poverty Quotes - Page 22

Only the poor can know all the disadvantages of poverty. Only the rich can know all the disadvantages of wealth.

We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra...

Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.

[Albert Camus] positions are sensed. So, naturally, those intellectuals who don't have that experience have difficulty in comprehending it. But I think it made Camus more tolerant because he had already seen both sides of things when the others had only ever seen one. They imagine poverty, but they don't know what it is. In fact they've got a sort of bad conscience about the working classes.

He (Lyndon B. Johnson) wanted to see poverty, so he came to see my team (1964 New York Mets).

Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.

It could be that one of the greatest hindrances to evangelism is the poverty of our own experience.

The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic emancipates us from the straitwaistcoated benevolent institution, which idealism palms off as the totality of being.

There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.

I left Xerox for the non-profit sector because it was clear to me that only public/private partnerships can pull off a turnaround plan at the scale we need to tackle global poverty.

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, imprisonment, psychosurgery, social ostracism, and extreme poverty.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

I confess I could never see any good reason why dirt should always be a necessary concomitant of poverty.

Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor

When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will

Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference.

The beggarly last doit.

Where penury is felt the thought is chain'd, And sweet colloquial pleasures are but few.

Give me, Lord, neither poverty nor riches.

I believe it is one of our biggest tasks - the task of our life - to do everything possible to counter poverty and to build a freedom-loving future.

You can't reduce poverty in a vacuum. You are doing it in an environment.

Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.

Since Social Security was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to ensure economic security for American workers, poverty among American seniors has dramatically declined.