Poverty Quotes - Page 23

Until now their line has been that the Tories are incapable of doing anything about poverty, and aren't interested in doing it in the first place. By contrast, Labour says, we are also incapable of doing anything about poverty, but would dearly love to do something. If we knew what.

There is extreme poverty in Appalachia, where I was, and increasingly poverty is not just an urban thing.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now.

She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.

It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by temporary expedients, and every day is lost in contriving for to-morrow.

The whole world is put in motion by the wish for riches and the dread of poverty.

This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

Riches exclude only one inconvenience,--that is, poverty.

Everybody in politics claims to want to get everybody out of poverty. What's the opposite? Wealth. And what is often criticized by the left? Wealth.

Poverty is a career for lot's of well paid people

Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.

Ay! idleness! the rich folks never fail To find some reason why the poor deserve Their miseries.

It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism.

Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away.

[B]eyond poverty, beyond the point that the material needs are reasonably satisfied, only from within is peace.

Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross.

There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.

The fight against poverty and hunger must be fought constantly and on many fronts, especially in its causes.

The times talk to us of so much poverty in the world and this is a scandal. Poverty in the world is a scandal. In a world where there is so much wealth, so many resources to feed everyone, it is unfathomable that there are so many hungry children, that there are so many children without an education, so many poor persons. Poverty today is a cry.

Let us contemplate the humility of the Son of God born into poverty. Let us imitate him by sharing with those who are weak.

How many kinds of moral and material poverty we face today as a result of denying God and putting so many idols in his place!

Poverty is a plague against which humanity must fight without cease.

Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts. [Lat., Paupertas . . . omnes artes perdocet.]