Poverty Quotes - Page 24

Microloans enable the poor to lift themselves out of poverty through entrepreneurship.

It is a kind of blindness--poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every angle.

In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.

To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise.

The chief problem of the low-income farmers is poverty.

While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.

And money can't buy everything. For example: poverty.

Credit is a human right that should be treated as a human right. If credit can be accepted as a human right, then all other human rights will be easier to establish.

I founded Grameen Bank to provide loans to those considered traditionally unbankable. Grameen Bank works with the poorest and often illiterate, providing uncollateralized micro-loans for tiny business enterprises by which they can lift themselves and their families out of poverty.

So i say, change the base! If you change the base, anybody will be as tall as anybody else! My belief is poverty is not caused by poor ppl. Poverty is caused by the system. Poverty is caused by the policies that we pursue.

It is good to stay in a peaceful poverty than to stay in a painful wealth.

Poverty is a scorpion; it stings the poor and it also stings the men with high conscience who feel sad about the poverty; the rest is immune to it!

Poverty's child - he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.

Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality.

Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc.

The impact of NCDs is not only affecting the urban populations but also rural poor. This is compounding the basic problem of poverty.

As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism.

To have nothing is not poverty. [Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.]

If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.

Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.

Every nation on the Earth that embraces market economics and the free enterprise system is pulling millions of its people out of poverty. The free enterprise system creates prosperity, not denies it.

Restore the spinning wheel to its place and you will solve the problem of poverty.

It's as if we live in a house which has a vast treasury in one of its rooms. Only we've forgotten about it. So, instead of living a life of royalty, we go about in poverty.

For the first time in our history it is possible to conquer poverty.